Water scarcity heightens caste tensions in India

4:55pm GMT By Misha Hussain DAKAR, Feb 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Haoua Mahamat boarded a military plane to Chad on Wednesday with three of her 10 children, fleeing attacks by Christian militia on Muslims in Central African Republic, ...

* Villagers complain about construction landfills * Activists say lack of drainage threatens water quality By Thomas Grove SOCHI, Russia, Jan 17 (Reuters) - The first warning of the problems that eventually swept away Irina Vorochkova's ...

Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. In advance of International Women's Day on 8 March 2014, WHO is launching new guidance to help countries ensure human rights are respected in ...

Delivery boxes for take-away pizzas are stacked at a Domino's Pizza store in Berlin, on August 19, 2013. REUTERS/Thomas Peter LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A third of the top 30 global retailers of packaged food, fast food and personal ...

REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque Eight former members of the Federal Election Commission today accused the Internal Revenue Service of attempting to interfere with campaign finance regulations enacted by Congress. The former FEC commissioners signed a ...

Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. WHO is working with the South Sudan Government and partners to provide vaccines to protect nearly 140 000 people living in temporary camps in ...

Priest says fascination with Pope Francis has taken hold worldwide Basilian Father Thomas Rosica, CEO of Canada's Salt and Light Media Foundation, participates in a press briefing in English at the Vatican in 2013. Father Rosica was assisting ...

Chairman Menendez, Ranking Member Corker, members of the Committee, on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), thank you for inviting me to testify today on the implementation of the Joint Plan of Action with Iran and the impact ...

ELGEIYO MARAKWET, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hundreds of Sengwer indigenous people - among them children, women and the elderly - are camping in the cold outside Kenyas western Embobut forest after they were evicted by armed forest warders ...