UN agency appeals for aid to help Haiti weather hurricane season
Reuters UNICEF, the UN children’s agency, appealed on Friday for international aid to help prepare violence-plagued Haiti for a dangerous Atlantic hurricane season that could be deadly for the island’s many displaced people. The hurricane season that traditionally begins in June and runs through November is forecast to be severe this year. A gang-fuelled crisis […]
Attacks leave Sudanese refugees stranded in Ethiopian forest
Cairo, Egypt Reuters Refugees from Sudan’s civil war who fled into neighbouring Ethiopia say they have been forced to move on again and take shelter in a forest and on roadsides after repeated attacks by gunmen left their tents pock-marked with bullet holes. About 8,000 people have left the Kumer and Awlala refugee camps, set […]
Indonesian President in damage control over new capital
Jakarta, Indonesia Reuters Indonesia’s President is rushing to reassure investors and bureaucrats about his $US32 billion new capital city in a malaria-prone pocket of Borneo, after the resignations of two officials overseeing the plan raised fresh doubts about its future. President Joko Widodo’s announcement that he will start working next month from an office in […]
Ukraine civilian death toll rises to highest in nearly a year, UN says
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters The civilian death toll in Ukraine last month rose sharply, to 174, which was the highest level in nearly a year amid an increase in missile and bomb strikes in populated areas around Kharkiv, the UN human rights office said on Friday. A man places a portrait on a grave during a […]
Pope recreates the 2014 Mideast peace prayer in Vatican Gardens to beg for an end to Gaza conflict
Rome, Italy AP Pope Francis gathered the Israeli and Palestinian ambassadors to the Vatican Gardens on Friday to pray for an end to the war in Gaza, marking the 10th anniversary of a similar encounter with the Israeli and Palestinian presidents with a new appeal for peace. “Every day I pray that this war will finally […]
Tough choices: A court ruled embryos are children. These Christian couples agree yet wrestle with IVF choices
LAURA UNGAR and TIFFANY STANLEY, of Associated Press, report on how some Christian families in the US are responding in different ways to IVF…
India’s President invites Modi to head new coalition government, swearing-in on Sunday
New Delhi, India Reuters Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday that President Droupadi Murmu had invited him to form a government, as he promised his new coalition of 15 parties would strive for unanimity and emerge successful. Modi’s comments came after he met Murmu and accepted her invitation to head the National Democratic […]
Russia-installed governor says Ukrainian forces kill 22 in small town
Reuters The Russia-installed governor of Ukraine’s southern region of Kherson accused Ukrainian forces on Friday of killing 22 people and wounding 15 in shelling of the small town of Sadove. Governor Vladimir Saldo said Ukrainian forces had deliberately struck the area a second time, using a US-supplied HIMARS missile to inflict the largest possible number […]
Biden asks Americans to recommit to democracy in Normandy cliff speech
Pointe du Hoc France Reuters Atop the cliff that US Army Rangers scaled 80 years ago on D-Day, President Joe Biden on Friday compared the threats posed by Nazi Germany to those facing the world today by dictators and authoritarianism, and urged Americans to resist isolationism. Biden’s speech in Normandy, his second in as many […]
Rescue charity recovers 11 bodies from sea off Libya
Rome, Italy Reuters A charity rescue ship recovered the bodies of 11 migrants off the coast of Libya on Friday after saving more than 160 people from boats close to the North African country, the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) group said. MSF said its Geo Barents search and rescue vessel picked up 146 migrants in […]