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Today’s news briefs include British recycling gone crazy? Ukraine attack on Moscow; Wycliffe missionary suicide; Railroad strike.
11 bins? British recycling questioned
Residents of one English community are furious over new recycling rules. GB News reports a council has made homeowners split their rubbish into 11 different bins for rubbish and recycling. “The regulations give the Cotswold District Council the distinction of having the highest number of separate rubbish categories across all the UK counties, according to research by the Taxpayers’ Alliance. Citizens are not required to split recycling by general waste, dry mixed recycling, food waste, paper and card, garden waste, glass, plastics, batteries, textiles, waste electrics and even coffee pods,” according to the news outlet. John O’Connell, chief executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: “Councils across the UK are placing an enormous burden on households through the often mind-bogglingly complex system of waste separation.”
Ukraine launches massive drone attack on Moscow
Moscow on Wednesday came under one of the largest attacks yet by Ukrainian drones since Russia invaded in 2022. At least 45 drones flew towards the Russian capitol with 11 making it to the region authorities reported Wednesday. The drone attacks come as Ukrainian forces are continuing to push into Russia’s western Kursk region. “This was one of the biggest attempts of all time to attack Moscow using drones,” Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said on his Telegram channel. Russia claims it shot down all drones and Russian social media showed explosions setting off car alarms,. reports the AP Ukraine recently took control of at least 400 square miles of Russian territory forcing Vladimir Putin to evacuate over 200,000 people. Ukraine is pressing the Biden administration to allow it to use American weapons inside Russia as NATO members are now doing.
Canadian railroad strike may come this week
Canada is bracing for an economic shutdown as the country’s rail union prepares a nationwide strike. Freight trains are expected stop moving Thursday at both major Canadian freight railroads if negotiations fail, threatening industry and passenger service. Thousands of companies rely on Canadian National and CPKC railroads to deliver raw materials and finished products. Railroads carry more than $1 billion Canadian (US$730 million) worth of goods each day and delivered more than 375 million tons of freight last year, according to the AP. Commuters will also be affected in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. Many business groups have urged the government to intervene and force arbitration. A similar strike was averted in the U.S. two years ago when the Biden administration broke with unions and forced them to accept a deal with railroads.
Good News Magazine, the respected theologically conservative news outlet of the United Methodist Church is shutting down. The publication, which had a biblical worldview and was typically at odds in recent years with the denomination, helped keep the floodwaters of liberalism at bay since 1967 but the dam was breached implied the editors. Good News President Rob Renfroe and Good News Vice President Thomas Lambrecht noted that they both transferred their membership to the Global Methodist Church, a theologically conservative denomination launched in 2022 as an alternative to the UMC. “The vast majority of traditionalists would have left years ago, the UM Church would have gone radically progressive long before now, and whatever Evangelical movement might have come out of it would, at best, be a mere shell of the GMC,” they said, a according to the Christian Post.
Missionary committed suicide at Chicago airport
The death of a Wycliffe Bible translator discovered in a Chicago airport luggage conveyor belt has been ruled a suicide. Virginia Vinton, a 57-year-old missionary, was originally thought to have died in an accident at Chicago O’Hare International Airport in early Augsust. The Daily Mail reports that Chicago Police Department investigated the incident and ruled it a suicide. A Delta Airlines employee discovered Vinton’s body with a wire wrapped around the neck and authorities initially thought she had been entangled in the machine. “We are heartbroken by the tragic passing of Virginia,” a spokesperson for the Orlando-based interdenominational said in a statement.
–Dwight Widaman and wire services
