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Friday, 08 January 2016 17:35
Australia: palliative care
The Victorian government has conducted a public consultation to improve palliative care service and work towards the development of an end-of-life care framework. The Australian Christian Lobby was able to contribute to the discussion by making…
Friday, 08 January 2016 17:35
South Africa: human trafficking
Nomasonto Khoza, the mother of a one-year-old toddler, and her two accomplices appeared at the Nelspruit magistrates’ court on Thursday, charged with human trafficking. The 25-year-old mother sold the child for R5,000 in Springs to 45-year-old…
Friday, 08 January 2016 17:34
Nigeria: Boko Haram kill 80+ but President says ‘war against terror won’
Boko Haram slaughtered more than eighty people in a series of attacks the week after President Buhari suggested his army had ‘technically won the war.’ The Global Terror Report 2015 places Nigeria third on their list…
Friday, 08 January 2016 17:33
Middle East: Iraq to mediate between Saudi Arabia and Iran?
Iraq dispatched its foreign minister to Tehran on Wednesday with an offer to mediate in an escalating feud between Saudi Arabia and Iran after Sunni Saudi Arabia executed Shi'ite Nimr al-Nimr because he complained that Shi'ites…
Friday, 08 January 2016 17:31
Yemen: Fighting causing a humanitarian disaster
Homes are without power, food supplies cannot enter the area, and medical facilities have been bombed or closed. Since November heavy fighting in the central Yemeni city of Taiz has forced more than 30 hospitals and…
Friday, 08 January 2016 17:31
Worldwide weather
In Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Bolivia more than 160,000 people were displaced over the last few days of December by the heaviest floods to hit South America in 50 years. The year 2015 was the…