Hundreds rescued after India landslides that killed 151, many missing
Choorlamala, India Reuters Nearly 1,000 people have been rescued after landslides in the hills of Wayanad district in India’s Kerala state, authorities said on Wednesday, with at least 151 people dead and many still missing. Heavy rain in one of India’s most attractive tourist destinations collapsed hillsides early on Tuesday sending torrents of mud, water […]
Russia launches one of war’s largest drone attacks on Ukraine, Kyiv’s military says
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russia launched several waves of drones on Kyiv in what was one of the war’s largest attacks of its kind targeting Ukraine, the military administration of the city said on Wednesday, keeping the Ukrainian capital under air raid alerts nearly all night. Ukraine’s air defence systems destroyed more than 30 drones by […]
Destruction of Gaza water wells deepens Palestinian misery
Gaza Reuters Israel’s military blew up more than 30 water wells in Gaza this month, a municipality official and residents said, adding to the trauma of airstrikes that have turned much of the Palestinian enclave into a wasteland ravaged by a humanitarian crisis. Salama Shurab, head of the water networks at Khan Younis municipality, said […]
North Korea says thousands of homes hit by flooding
Seoul, South Korea Reuters Over 4,000 homes in North Korea’s city of Sinuiju and Uiju County near the border with China have been flooded due to heavy rainfall, state media KCNA said on Wednesday. Around 3,000 hectares of farmland along with numerous public buildings, facilities and roads were also flooded, prompting a two-day emergency meeting […]
The closure of camps in Iraq housing Yazidis displaced by IS attacks is postponed, an official says
Irbil, Iraq AP The Iraqi Government has postponed an order to clear out camps in the country’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region that house thousands of people who fled when the Islamic State group seized their home areas a decade ago, officials said Tuesday. Earlier this year, Baghdad ordered the camps to be closed by 30th July […]
US carries out strike in Iraq as regional tensions worsen
Baghdad, Iraq/Washington DC, US Reuters The United States on Tuesday carried out a strike in Iraq in self defence, US officials told Reuters, as regional tensions rose after an Israeli airstrike in Beirut that Israel said killed Hezbollah’s most senior commander. Iraqi police and medical sources said the strike inside a base south of Baghdad […]
Sudan says it conditionally accepts invitation to US-sponsored peace talks
Dubai, United Arab Emirates Reuters Sudan’s government conditionally accepted on Tuesday an invitation to attend US-sponsored peace talks in Geneva, raising hopes that the talks could advance efforts to end a 15-month-old war. The government is aligned with the army in its war with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The army has shunned recent […]
Israel-Hamas conflict: Mennonites march to White House for Gaza ceasefire
Outside the White House on Sunday, the core group of about 15 who had walked with Aidan Yoder every day from Harrisonburg, Virginia, had grown 10 times larger, all gathered in prayer for a ceasefire. ALEJA HERTZLER-MCCAIN, of Religion News Service, reports…
Investigation finds at least 973 Native American children died in US Government boarding schools
Billings, Montana, US AP At least 973 Native American children died in the US Government’s abusive boarding school system, according to the results of an investigation released Tuesday by Interior Department officials who called on the government to apologise for the schools. The investigation commissioned by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland found marked and unmarked graves at […]
Essay: How Martin Luther King, Jr, foresaw Mississippi’s new Episcopal Black bishop
In an article first published on Religion News Service, JOE MCDANIEL, co-chair for the Commission on Racial Justice & Reconciliation for the Episcopal Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast, says King contrasted Mississippi’s past with his optimistic vision of the state as an “oasis of freedom and justice”…