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Thursday, 09 January 2020 19:45
Australia: devastation not over
Thunderstorms are bringing some relief for firefighters battling deadly wildfires across Australia's drought-parched east coast; also, authorities have worked to trace the source of the fires, arresting two dozen Australians for potential arson. Meanwhile, as the…
Thursday, 09 January 2020 19:38
Worldwide: abortion largest cause of death
Over 42 million abortions took place globally in 2019, according to the tracking service Worldometers. Once again abortion was the single largest cause of death across the planet, causing significantly more than half the total of…
Friday, 03 January 2020 09:29
Global: anti-Semitism on the rise
Hudson Valley towns, north of New York, have seen an influx of Hasidic Jews in recent years, and they have been suffering violent attacks following a deadly 10 December shooting rampage at a kosher market where…
Friday, 03 January 2020 09:26
Iran: women prisoners on hunger strike
On Christmas Eve British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert started an open-ended hunger strike in protest at being sentenced to ten years on espionage charges. She wants, at the very least, to be moved from solitary confinement, where…
Friday, 03 January 2020 09:23
Australia: continue to pray
New South Wales declared a week-long state of emergency in response to escalating bushfires. Ask God to give strength and wisdom to Australian military aircraft and vessels and to US and Canadian ‘specialist aviation resources’; may…
Friday, 03 January 2020 09:20
Iran: ‘nuclear-capable projectiles’ cause concern
France, Germany, and Britain have told the UN's secretary-general that Iran has developed a ballistic-missile system capable of delivering a nuclear weapon in violation of the Security Council resolution. A letter from those countries, plus Russia,…