Thirty-five bodies found inside well after collapse at Indian temple
New Delhi, India AP Thirty-five bodies have been found inside a well at a Hindu temple in central India after dozens of people fell into the muddy water when the well’s cover collapsed, officials said Friday. Video of Thursday’s collapse at the temple complex in Indore in Madhya Pradesh state showed chaos afterward, with people […]
Heat adds to despair of Indian women after decades of daily treks for water
Hinauti, India Reuters India’s scorching summer heat adds new risks this year to an energy-sapping challenge that tribal woman Munni Adhivasi has surmounted every day for two decades, by trudging for miles to carry home water. Munni, who said she feared dying in the heat, teared up as she railed against the government’s failure to provide drinking water to more than 200 tribal families in her hamlet of Hinauti in northern Uttar […]
Pope decries genital mutilation, sex trafficking of women; praises Moroccan efforts to rescue boy trapped in well
Vatican City Reuters Pope Francis condemned female genital mutilation and trafficking of women for prostitution on Sunday, calling them humiliating affronts to women’s dignity and urging officials to do everything possible to end both. “This practice, which is unfortunately common in various parts of the world, humiliates the dignity of a woman and gravely attacks […]
Postcards: Dry spell leaves Kenyan islanders thirsty for clean water
DOMINIC KIRUI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on the struggle to find water for villagers living on Lamu Island off the coast of Kenya…