Cocaine market is booming as meth trafficking spreads, UN report says
Vienna, Austria Reuters Cocaine demand and supply are booming worldwide and methamphetamine trafficking is expanding beyond established markets, including in Afghanistan where the drug is now being produced, a United Nations report said on Sunday. Coca bush cultivation and total cocaine production were at record highs in 2021, the most recent year for which data […]
Migration push: Pakistan’s economic meltdown spurs more people to risk lives to reach Europe
GIBRAN NAIYYAR PESHIMAM, of Reuters, reports on the economic factors driving increasing numbers of Pakistanis to try and seek a better life…
Paris finance summit breaks new ground in climate, poverty fight
Barcelona, Spain Thomson Reuters Foundation A new patchwork of pledges from the world’s biggest development lenders, set to release hundreds of billions of dollars for poorer nations, has raised hopes the financial floodgates are finally starting to open in tackling climate change and poverty. Last week’s “Summit for a New Global Financing Pact” in Paris […]
Essay: Wagner’s mutiny punctured Putin’s ‘strongman’ image and exposed cracks in his rule
In an article first published on The Conversation, PETER RUTLAND, professor of government at Wesleyan University, looks at events in Russia on the weekend – and what the longer-term impacts may be…
Wow!: Sidelined from academia, India’s Dalits archive caste history
Dalits say their history is neglected by Indian institutions – so they are combing home collections to build their own archives. VIDHI DOSHI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
US Coast Guard investigating cause of Titanic submersible implosion
Reuters The US Coast Guard is investigating the cause of the undersea implosion of a tourist submersible that killed all five people aboard while diving to the century-old wreck of the Titanic, officials said on Sunday. People inspect Polar Prince ship and the deployment barge used with the Titan submersible, St John’s harbour, Newfoundland, Canada, […]
South Sudan churches launch campaign against child marriage, violence
Nairobi, Kenya Church leaders in South Sudan have started a campaign against childhood marriages and violence, and now rampant among teenagers in the East African country. The country of more than 10.75 million people has the world’s fifth-highest prevalence of child marriage, according to the report by the UN. The report shows that 52 per cent of […]