Myanmar army engaged in torture, mass killings, war crimes – UN
Reuters Myanmar’s military has engaged in systematic human rights violations, many amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity, the United Nations said on Tuesday, in its first comprehensive human rights report since last year’s coup. Security forces have shown a flagrant disregard for human life, using air strikes and heavy weapons on populated areas […]
This Life: Thankfulness amid devastation
After flood waters inundated her home in Australia’s Northern Rivers region, SAMANTHA ELLEY looks at what she can be grateful for…
Ukrainian spiritual and diplomatic leaders in the US urge aid, weapons
AP The top leader of Ukrainian Catholics in the United States and Ukraine’s ambassador to the nation made an urgent appeal to the world Tuesday for more weapons to fight against Russia’s invasion and aid to address the worsening humanitarian crisis. The Most Rev Borys Gudziak, Metropolitan Archbishop of Philadelphia for the Ukrainian Catholic Church […]
More than three million have fled fighting in Ukraine
Przemysl, Poland/Palanca, Moldova Reuters Nearly three weeks into the war, the number of Ukrainians fleeing abroad passed three million on Tuesday, the United Nations said, as people escaped fighting and Russian bombardment. Some 3,000,381 people have so far left Ukraine, data from the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, showed. It is basing its aid plans on […]
Kyiv mayor invites Pope to make peace plea in Ukrainian capital
Vatican City Reuters The mayor of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv has urged Pope Francis to travel to the city even in the current circumstances, saying his presence there was “key” to saving lives and achieving peace. A letter by Vitaliy Klitschko to the Pope followed earlier invitations by Ukraine’s Byzantine-rite Catholic leader and Ukraine’s ambassador […]
Ukraine leader hints at compromise as Russian forces pummel capital
Lviv/Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russian air strikes and artillery fire smashed into buildings in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Tuesday as invading forces tightened their grip, while a convoy of civilians headed out of the besieged port city of Mariupol for safer parts. At least five people were killed in the bombardments on Kyiv on the […]
Medics and volunteers try to prop up Ukraine’s health system
London, UK Reuters When Russian bombs started falling on Kyiv, oncologist Nataliia Verovkina fled with her 10-year-old son. But once he was safe in Munich with his grandparents, she turned around and went back. “Someone had to help these people,” Verovkina, 43, who works at Ukraine’s National Cancer Institute, said by phone from the capital. […]
Australian court overturns ruling requiring mine approvals to weigh climate harm
Melbourne, Australia Reuters An Australian court on Tuesday overturned a groundbreaking ruling from last year that required the country’s environment minister to consider harm to children from climate change as part of the approval process for a coal mine. The full Federal Court decided unanimously in favour of the appeal by Environment Minister Sussan Ley […]
Ukraine conflict: Russian Orthodox parishes in Europe pressured from both sides as war rages in Ukraine
TOM HENEGHAN, of Religion News Service reports that a Russian Orthodox parish in Amsterdam has reportedly became the first Western Orthodox church to break ties with Moscow over the Russian invasion of Ukraine…
Ride-share return from space station on Russian Soyuz still on track – NASA
Reuters A US astronaut is still slated to share a ride back from the International Space Station with two cosmonauts aboard their Soyuz capsule later this month, despite US-Russian antagonism over the war in Ukraine, NASA officials said on Monday. Joel Montalbano, manager of NASA’s International Space Station program, also said US-Russian cooperation aboard the […]