“Like Chernobyl”: Wary Ukrainians return to ruined towns after Russian retreat
Balakliia, UkraineReuters Joy, trepidation and grief flickered across the face of Nataliia Yelistratova as she sat next to her husband on a special train back to their home town of Balakliia that Ukraine recaptured last week after six months of Russian occupation. The town – which had a population of 27,000 before the war – is one of […]
Postcards: In Gaddafi’s hometown, little hope for Libya’s future
ANGUS MCDOWELL and AHMED ELUMAMI, of Reuters, report from Sirte…
Australian tourism industry seeks urgent help as cost of bushfires grows
Melbourne, AustraliaReuters Australia’s peak tourism body estimated the country’s bushfire crisis has so far cost the industry almost $A1 billion and called for urgent help from the government to lure back visitors. Industry bosses were due to meet with Tourism Minister Simon Birmingham later on Thursday as storms and heavy rain brought some respite from […]
Missing ingredient in healing cities after disaster? Culture
Thomson Reuters Foundation In Bosnia, after the war in the 1990s, residents put rebuilding a 400-year-old bridge ahead of fixing their own roofs. In Nepal, repairing the nation’s historic sites brought people together after 2015’s devastating earthquakes. Those are critical lessons, according to a report released on Monday by the World Bank and the United […]
Cross desecrations continue in Goa, India, despite arrest of Catholic ‘culprit’
World Watch Monitor More than 40 crosses, tombstones and other religious items were vandalised at Curchorem Cemetery on 10th July. PICTURES: Via World Watch Monitor. Crosses continue to be desecrated in the Indian state of Goa, despite the police claiming to have captured the ‘culprit’, a 50-year-old Catholic who, from what police say, appears […]