New Zealand Maori begin march on capital to protest Indigenous treaty bill
Reuters Hundreds of people on Monday set out on a nine-day march to New Zealand’s capital of Wellington in protest over legislation that would reinterpret a treaty at the heart of race relations in the Pacific country. Convoys of cars and marchers set off after a dawn ceremony at Cape Reinga, in the country’s far […]
Taliban administration officials to attend UN climate conference in Azerbaijan
Kabul, Afghanistan Reuters Afghan Taliban officials will attend a major United Nations climate conference that starts this week, the Afghan Foreign Ministry said on Sunday, the first time they have attended since the former insurgents took power in 2021. The COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku will be among the highest-profile multilateral events attended […]
FIFA must halt Saudi World Cup bid due to human rights issues, says Amnesty
Reuters FIFA must halt the process to pick Saudi Arabia as hosts of the 2034 World Cup unless major human rights reforms are announced before the vote next month, Amnesty International and the Sport & Rights Alliance (SRA) have said. Soccer’s world governing body awarded the 2030 World Cup to Morocco, Spain and Portugal in […]
Ukraine’s Zelenskiy says strength must come with diplomacy to achieve peace
Reuters President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said late on Sunday that strength and diplomacy must work together to bring the Russian war in Ukraine to an end and to ensure that such conflict does not happen again in the future. “We understand very clearly that diplomacy has no prospects without strength,” Zelenskiy said in his nightly video […]
Fifteen Chad soldiers killed in operation against Boko Haram, army says
N’Djamena, Chad Reuters At least 15 Chadian soldiers were killed and 32 others wounded in clashes between the army and Boko Haram fighters on Saturday, the army’s spokesman said, adding that 96 Boko Haram members were also killed. General Issakh Acheikh on Sunday did not say where the operation took place or provide any details […]
US judge pauses Trump 2020 election case after election victory
Washington DC, US Reuters A US judge set aside pending deadlines in President-elect Donald Trump’s 2020 election subversion case after federal prosecutors said they were grappling with the “unprecedented circumstance” of his impending return to the White House. On Friday, US District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington approved a request from Special Counsel Jack Smith, […]
Bolivia’s Morales barred from running for political office
La Paz, Bolivia Reuters A constitutional court in Bolivia has barred former President Evo Morales from running again for office, ushering in a new phase in the country’s long-running political crisis. Morales, who led Bolivia from 2006 to 2019, had been vying for the candidacy of his MAS party, alongside his former mentee-turned-rival, President Luis […]
“Cracking Christmas?”: Will ‘The Best Christmas Pageant Ever’ be a Christian crossover miracle?
KATHRYN POST, of Religion News Service, reports on the new film made by ‘The Chosen’ director Dallas Jenkins, which opened in US theatres on Friday…
Jordan’s tourism industry struggling as Gaza war deters visitors
Petra, Jordan/London, UK Reuters Enas Al Hinti has cut staff pay in half and asked workers to take unpaid leave in an effort to keep her hotel in ancient Petra open as Western holidaymakers fearful of conflict shun destinations in the Middle East. A crisis across the region’s tourism industry since the start of the […]
Essay: The COP29 climate talks are about to kick off in Baku, Azerbaijan. Here’s what to expect
MATT MCDONALD, professor of international relations at the University of Queensland, looks, in an article first published on The Conversation at the agenda for this year’s climate talks…