UK charities face pressure over fundraising after pensioner suicide
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – British charities faced pressure from the government on Tuesday to voluntarily change the way they raise funds following a barrage of complaints about the public being bombarded with appeals for money.
Amid protests Nepal presents ‘illegal’ new constitution after quakes
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepal presented a preliminary draft of its first republican constitution on Tuesday, but the country’s top court has questioned the legality of the document that was rushed through after devastating earthquakes spurred politicians…
Italy recovers first bodies from deadliest migrant shipwreck
ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s navy said on Tuesday it had retrieved the first bodies from the wreck of a boat that sank in the Mediterranean three months ago, killing up to 800 migrants attempting to cross from Libya to Europe.
Germanwings offers emotional damage payments to crash victims’ families
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germanwings is offering 25,000 euros ($27,958) compensation payments to close relatives of those killed in the March 24 plane crash for their pain and suffering, it said on Tuesday.
‘Top predator’ humans causing catastrophic ecosystem shifts: study
ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Never before has a single species become the top predator on land and sea, and human dominance over the natural environment has caused shifts in world ecosystems unprecedented in the last 500 million years, researche…
World’s poorest gain access to water, but not toilets
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The poor’s lack of access to sanitation threatens to undermine the health benefits they have gained from access to clean water, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
Efficient stove technology eases North Kenya’s medical waste problem
WAMBA, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Poor weather, security threats and bad roads have made disposing of the Wamba district hospital’s medical waste a challenge.
Thousands of children rescued from dangerous work in Tanzania gold mines
DAR ES SALAAM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – More than 12,000 children have been rescued in the past three years from gold mines in northern Tanzania, according to children’s rights groups who fear thousands more youngsters are being forced to work in …
Referendum-happy Swiss see funny side of Greek vote
ZURICH (Reuters) – Amid the confusion surrounding Greece’s plan to put its bailout to a referendum on Sunday, the Swiss are finding something in the last-minute vote to laugh about.
Pope to visit the powerful and the poor on Cuba, U.S. trip
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis will meet prisoners, homeless people and immigrants as well as some of the world’s most powerful leaders during his September trip to Cuba and the United States, according to a Vatican program issued on Tuesday.
