EU to funnel COVID vaccines to Balkans after China, Russia shipments
Vienna, Austria/Brussels. Belgium Reuters The European Union will ship over half a million COVID-19 shots to the Western Balkans by August using for the first time in the region a vaccine-sharing mechanism meant to help its poorer neighbours and to challenge Chinese and Russian influence. The EU move comes after China and Russia distributed millions […]
Updated: In Minneapolis, Derek Chauvin found guilty over death of George Floyd
Updated 12.30pm (AEDT) Former police officer Derek Chauvin has been found guilty of all charges over the death of George Floyd on a Minneapolis street in the US last year. Chauvin, 45, was filmed kneeling on the neck of the 46-year-old African-American man for more than nine minutes during his arrest in May. He was […]
Updated: Chad President Idriss Deby dies on frontline, son to take over
Updated 8am, 21st April, 2021 N’Djamena, Chad Reuters Chad’s president, Idriss Deby, who ruled his country for more than 30 years and was an important Western ally in the fight against Islamist militants in Africa, was killed on Monday in a battle against rebels in the north, authorities said. His son, Mahamat Idriss Deby, was […]
Pressured by Islamists, Pakistan parliament to vote on whether to expel French envoy
Islamabad, Pakistan Reuters Pakistan’s government will seek a vote in parliament on Tuesday on whether to expel the French ambassador after violent anti-France protests by Islamists demanding action over cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammad, the interior minister said. Prime Minister Imran Khan warned his nation in a televised address late on Monday that Pakistan risked paying […]
ASEAN calls summit on Myanmar crisis as EU imposes sanctions
Reuters South-East Asian countries will discuss the crisis in Myanmar at a summit in Jakarta on Saturday, the ASEAN bloc’s secretariat said on Tuesday, after the European Union imposed its toughest sanctions yet on the junta that seized power there on 1st February. The 10-member Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been trying to […]
Non-stop cremations cast doubt on India’s counting of COVID dead
Ahmedabad/Lucknow/New Delhi, India Reuters Gas and firewood furnaces at a crematorium in the western Indian state of Gujarat have been running so long without a break during the COVID-19 pandemic that metal parts have begun to melt. “We are working around the clock at 100 per cent capacity to cremate bodies on time,” Kamlesh Sailor, […]
In the US, General Baptist pastor who criticised wives’ weight “deeply sorry” for sermon
RNS The pastor of a General Baptist congregation has apologized to his church for a sermon in which he preached that “weight control” by wives could solve marital problems. “In the sermon, I made insensitive remarks about women and made statements deemed unbiblical,” said Pastor Stewart-Allen Clark in a statement posted on the website of […]
Three militants involved in Christian’s slaying killed in Egypt
Cairo, EgyptAP Police in Egypt killed three suspected militants allegedly involved in the slaying of a Coptic Christian man kidnapped more than five months ago in a restive part of Sinai Peninsula, the Interior Ministry said Monday. Security forces exchanged fire with Islamic State group militants while chasing them in the Abtal area of North […]
Core beliefs
I’ve been happily married for 25 years this year. What wisdom can I share with you? Are you headed in the same direction? A good marriahe relies on sharing common values, says Paul Clark. PICTURE: Do your best to find someone who shares your most important values. When life is easy, it’s easy to get […]
US refugee cap: Biden reverses course after faith groups express outrage
JACK JENKINS and EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, writing for Religion News Service, report on the Biden administration indicated it would lift a cap on refugee resettlement numbers after an outcry from faith groups over what one leader described as a “breath-taking betrayal”…