Pope Leo XIV met with Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado in a private audience at the Vatican. The meeting, which hadn’t been previously included in the list of Leo’s planned appointments, was later listed by the Vatican in its daily bulletin, without adding details. The details of the meeting […]
Continue ReadingThe death toll in the crackdown on nationwide protests in Iran has spiked to at least 538 people, activists said. More than 10,600 people have been detained, said the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency. Of those killed, 490 are protesters and 48 are members of the security forces, it said, warning the toll is […]
Continue ReadingThousands of tourists are stranded in northern Finland after flights at Kittila airport were cancelled due to severe cold. The temperature at the airport dropped to minus 37C on Sunday morning, after several days of similar frigid weather, making de-icing of aircraft and other operations difficult, Finland’s national public broadcaster Yle reported. The deep freeze […]
Continue ReadingThe US has launched another round of retaliatory strikes against the so-called Islamic State (IS) in Syria following last month’s ambush that killed two US soldiers and one American civilian interpreter in the country. The large-scale strikes were conducted by the US alongside partner forces, according to US Central Command. The strikes hit multiple IS […]
Continue ReadingA Ukrainian drone strike has sparked a fire at an oil depot in Russia’s southern Volgograd region, regional authorities said. There were no immediate reports of casualties, the regional governor was quoted as saying in a Telegram post. The post did not specify the damage, but said that people living near the depot may have […]
Continue ReadingAn avalanche of rubbish and debris has buried or trapped workers at a landfill in the Philippines, killing two people, injuring a dozen and leaving 36 others missing, officials said. Thirteen people were rescued alive overnight, but one of them later died, authorities said. A second body was discovered later. An aerial view of the […]
Continue ReadingRussia said it has used the new Oreshnik ballistic missile along with other weapons in a massive strike on Ukraine. Ukrainian officials said four people were killed and at least 22 wounded in the capital overnight. Russia did not say where Oreshnik hit but Russian media and military bloggers said it targeted a huge underground […]
Continue ReadingA nationwide internet blackout was reported in Iran on Thursday, internet monitoring group NetBlocks said, as Tehran rolled out high-stakes subsidy reforms in the face of escalating protests against economic hardship. No further information on the internet outage was immediately available. Witnesses in the capital Tehran and major cities of Mashhad and Isfahan told Reuters […]
Continue ReadingKeir Starmer “set out his position on Greenland” in a phone call with Donald Trump on Wednesday evening, Downing Street has said. US officials have suggested America could use “military means” to take over the semi-autonomous Danish territory, which Mr Trump claims is vital for national security. Downing Street did not provide further details of […]
Continue ReadingThe US is attempting to seize a US-sanctioned oil tanker after a more than two-week-long pursuit across the Atlantic. US officials told Reuters of the attempted seizure on Wednesday morning, as Russian state broadcaster RT said that it looked like US forces were trying to board the tanker from a helicopter and published an image […]
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