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Thousands honour former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke at state memorial
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Thousands of people gathered at Australia’s Sydney Opera House on Friday as a state memorial honoured former Prime Minister Bob Hawke, a transformative and charismatic left-wing lawmaker, who died last month aged 89. Hawke, who served as Australian prime minister from 1983 to 1991, enjoyed extraordinary popularity throughout and after leaving office largely […]
Drug cartels’ ties to politics in spotlight as Guatemala votes
Nueva Concepcion, Guatemala Reuters The mayor of Nueva Concepcion, a town on the Pacific coast of Guatemala, stands accused by prosecutors of drug trafficking and money laundering for Mexican cartels that use the coastal route to transport cocaine to the US. Yet Otoniel Lima, who rides around his poor municipality of 130,000 people in an […]
Trash for teaching: Indian students hope to set example on plastic recycling
Chennai, India Thomson Reuters Foundation Armed with bags full of discarded plastic, students at a school in north-east India are hoping to set a precedent by helping the planet – and getting free tuition. The Akshar Forum school in Pamohi in Assam state in north-east India encourages pupils to bring in at least 20 pieces […]
No more female ‘Hidden Figures’ as NASA renames street
New York City, US Thomson Reuters Foundation NASA renamed the street block in front of its Washington, DC, headquarters “Hidden Figures Way” on Wednesday in honour of black women who have contributed to the US space programme. The work of three black mathematicians – Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – at the National […]
CANADA: WHAT IS QUEBEC’S BILL 21 DEBATE ABOUT – AND WILL A VOTE END IT?
JAX JACOBSEN, of Religion News Service, explains what’s behind a controversial bill which would ban public-sector workers in positions of authority from wearing any sort of religious symbolism at work – as well as religious face coverings for people receiving services from government bodies…
US Catholic bishops stop short of mandating lay involvement in abuse investigations
Baltimore, US RNS The US Conference of Catholic Bishops has passed a slate of long-awaited measures designed to combat sex abuse and hold church leadership accountable for mishandling cases, including creating a national hotline operated by an outside group for reporting incidents of abuse or their cover-up. “I’m confident that the idea of doing [investigations] […]
Essay: Ebola outbreak spreads to Uganda – it should never have happened
STERGHIOS MOSCHOS, of Northumbria University in the UK, looks at news that Ebola cases have now been confirmed in Uganda…
Open Book: Paul’s Galatian letter – Believing the promise and forsaking foolishness, part IV
BRUCE C WEARNE continues his examination of Galatians, chapter three…
Richest countries skimp on parental leave: UNICEF
New York City, US Thomson Reuters Foundation Some of the wealthiest nations in the world provide little or no government-supported maternity or paternity leave for new parents, a United Nations report said on Thursday. Using 2016 data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Eurostat and research articles, the study ranked 41 high and […]