[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] SANTIAGO (Reuters) -Chileans headed to the polls on Sunday to vote in the Andean nation’s most divisive presidential election in decades, with two candidates offering starkly different visions for the future from pensions and privatization to human rights. Voters were choosing between Gabriel Boric, a 35-year-old former student protest leader allied to the […]

[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] MANILA (Reuters) – Typhoon Rai rapidly intensified to a Category 5 storm before making landfall in the southern Philippines on Thursday, forcing mass evacuations and flight cancellations as floodwaters reached chest-high in low-lying communities. Rai, the 15th typhoon to enter Philippine territory this year, hit the holiday island of Siargao in the southern province of […]

Lauren Moye, FISM News [elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] Faith organizations continue to provide crucial aid in communities shredded by devastating tornadoes on Dec. 10. The storm system heavily impacted Midwestern states as it cut a path across 200 miles of land. Christians across different denominations and non-denominational faith-based organizations have mobilized relief teams and supplies to the […]

[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] GENEVA (Reuters) – Countries taking part in U.N. talks on autonomous weapons stopped short of launching negotiations on an international treaty to govern their use, instead agreeing merely to continue discussions. The International Committee of the Red Cross and several NGOs had been pushing for negotiators to begin work on an international treaty […]

[elfsight_social_share_buttons id=”1″] KHARTOUM (Reuters) -Sudanese security forces fired tear gas and used stun grenades to try and break up demonstrations by hundreds of thousands of people in the capital Khartoum on Sunday over the Oct. 25 military coup. Protests against the coup have continued even after the reinstatement of the prime minister last month, with […]