Greece battles wildfires for fifth day in “nightmarish summer”
Athens, Greece Reuters Fires blazed uncontrolled for a fifth day in Greece on Saturday, ravaging swathes of land on its second-biggest island of Evia where hundreds of people had to be evacuated by ferry and locals joined firefighters in battling the flames. A fire which began on Tuesday on the island east of Athens quickly […]
Millions of children go hungry in insurgency-hit north-east Nigeria – NGO
Kaduna, Nigeria Reuters At least 2.3 million children and youth are going hungry in north-east Nigeria where an Islamist insurgency has forced farmers to flee their fields and put the region on the brink of critical food shortages, humanitarian groups have warned. Attacks by Islamist militants have been intensifying in north-east Nigeria in recent months, […]
‘Mega-drought’ in Andes from climate change leaves some peaks without snow
Buenos Aires, Argentina Reuters The Andes Mountain range, which draws skiers to South America, is facing historically low snowfall this year during a decade-long drought that scientists link to global warming. Scant rain and snowfall are leaving many of the majestic mountains between Ecuador and Argentina with patchy snow cover or no snow at all […]
Rev Leonid Kishkovsky, US interfaith leader, dies at 78
AP Rev Leonid Kishkovsky, who came to the United States as a childhood refugee from war-torn Poland and later became a leader in cross-church cooperation and the first Eastern Orthodox president of the National Council of Churches, has died. He was 78. Kishkovsky died of a heart attack Tuesday at Glen Cove Hospital in Glen […]
September 11 families tell Biden to skip memorial if he does not declassify files
Reuters Family members of victims of the 11th September attacks are opposing US President Joe Biden’s participation in memorial events unless he declassifies government documents that they contend will show Saudi Arabian leaders supported the attacks. The victims’ family members, joined by first responders and survivors of the attack, released a letter on Friday as […]
Beirut blast: A year on, vulnerable residents struggle to rebuild
TIMOUR AZHARI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports the plight of those impacted by the massive blast in Beirut’s port last August…
Christian group petitions Fisher-Price to replace Nativity playset depicting holy family as white
RNS Fisher-Price’s deluxe Little People Christmas Story playset features a light-up star, a musical stable, three wise men and a number of animals, all fashioned in their beloved round-bodied figures that are easy for little hands to hold. The playset also features a white holy family. Faithful America, an online community of Christians of all denominations advocating for […]
North Korea developing nuclear, missile programs in 2021 – UN report
United Nations Reuters North Korea continued developing its nuclear and ballistic missile programs during the first half of 2021 in violation of international sanctions and despite the country’s worsening economic situation, according to an excerpt of a confidential United Nations report seen by Reuters on Friday. The report by a panel of independent sanctions monitors […]
Resurgent Taliban take provincial capital, kill Afghan government spokesman
Kabul, Afghanistan Reuters Taliban insurgents captured an Afghan provincial capital and killed the government’s senior media officer in Kabul on Friday amid a deteriorating security situation as US and other foreign troops withdraw. A police spokesman in southern Nimroz province said the capital Zaranj had fallen to the hardline Islamists because of a lack of […]