“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 […]
Wow!: How India’s non-profit buses are a lifeline to jobs for villagers
ROLI SRIVASTAVA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how non-profit bus lines are helping workers get back to their jobs…
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Eco-friendly locomotive will be “rolling ambassador” for German Protestant festival
A special locomotive bearing the motto of the 2019 Kirchentag, Germany’s biggest regular Protestant festival, will travel the length and breadth of the country as a “rolling ambassador” for the event that takes place this year in June in the western German city of Dortmund. Painted in the red livery of Germany’s national rail company, […]
POSTCARDS: COMMUTING TO NAIROBI, THE TRAIN BECOMES A CHURCH
FREDRICK NZWILI, of Religion News Service, reports from Kenya…