Five dead in new Azerbaijan-Armenia clash over Karabakh
Reuters Azerbaijani troops and ethnic Armenians exchanged gunfire on Sunday in Azerbaijan’s contested region of Nagorno-Karabakh, killing at least five people, according to reports from Azerbaijan and Armenia. Nagorno-Karabakh was the focal point of two wars that have pitted Azerbaijan against Azerbaijan in the more than 30 years since both ex-Soviet states have achieved attendance. […]
Open Book: A healing of holistic proportions
NILS VON KALM looks at the Gospel account of Jesus’ meeting with a woman who had been suffering from a flow of blood for 12 years…
Stop human traffickers, Pope Francis says after Italy’s migrant shipwreck
Vatican City Reuters Pope Francis on Sunday called on authorities to stop human traffickers operating in the Mediterranean, as he expressed his sorrow over last week’s migrant boat disaster off Italy’s Calabrian coast, in which dozens of people were killed. “I renew my appeal to prevent such tragedies from happening again. May traffickers of human […]
Fire destroys homes Cox’s Bazar refugee camp in Bangladesh
Dhaka, Bangladesh Reuters A big fire at a camp for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh destroyed homes and sent thick black clouds of smoke through the area on Sunday before being brought under control. The blaze erupted at Camp 11 in Cox’s Bazar, a south-eastern border district where more than a million Rohingya refugees live. Most […]
Nations secure UN global high seas biodiversity pact
Reuters Negotiators from more than 100 countries completed a UN treaty to protect the high seas on Saturday, a long-awaited step that environmental groups say will help reverse marine biodiversity losses and ensure sustainable development. The legally binding pact to conserve and ensure the sustainable use of ocean biodiversity, under discussion for 15 years, was […]
Thousands protest in Athens after Greece’s deadly train crash
Athens, Greece Reuters Clashes erupted briefly between police and a group of demonstrators in central Athens on Sunday on the fringes of a protest by thousands of students and railway workers over Greece’s deadliest train crash in living memory. A small group of protesters hurled petrol bombs at police, who responded with tear gas and […]
Archaeologists find well-preserved 500-year-old spices on Baltic shipwreck
Lund, Sweden Reuters Archaeologists say they have uncovered a “unique” cache of well-preserved spices, from strands of saffron to peppercorns and ginger, on the wreck of a royal ship that sunk off Sweden’s Baltic coast more than 500 years ago. The wreck of the Gribshund, owned by King Hans of Denmark and Norway, has lain […]
Ukrainians say they were pressured to register babies as Russian during occupation
Kherson, Ukraine Reuters The moment her grand-daughter was born, Olha Lukina, 65, rushed to a registry office. It was one of the last still providing Ukrainian citizenship for newborns in the southern city of Kherson which was then under Russian occupation. Baby Kateryna became Ukraine’s newest citizen that day in May, born into one of […]
For some Gaza kids, a donkey cart is the only way to class
Khan Younis, Gaza Strip Reuters The crowded, potholed and often polluted streets of Gaza are tough – especially for children trying to get to school. For those who live too far away or who are too young to make the trip on foot, and too poor to afford a bus, Loay Abu Sahloul has a […]
Soils of war: The toxic legacy for Ukraine’s breadbasket
ROD NICKEL, of Reuters, reports on the damage being done to previously fertile farmland in Ukraine…