Category: World

Ukraine on Sunday rebuffed Pope Francis’s call to negotiate an end to the war with Russia, with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy saying the pontiff was engaging in “virtual mediation” and his foreign minister saying Kyiv would never capitulate. Francis said that when things were going badly for a party to a conflict one had to show […]

 The US military said on Sunday it has carried out an operation in Haiti to airlift non-essential embassy personnel from the country and added US forces to bolster embassy security, as the Caribbean nation reels under a state of emergency. The operation was the latest sign of Haiti’s troubles as gang violence threatens to bring […]

Five cross-country skiers who went missing during a ski tour in Switzerland were found dead, while a search was still on for the sixth skier, police said in a statement on Monday. The skiers, five of them members of the same family, went missing around Tete Blanche mountain on Saturday on the Zermatt-Arolla path, near […]

President Vladimir Putin has no doubt he will secure another term in Russia’s election. The vote that leaves him in suspense, and could do more to change his policies, will occur eight months later in the United States. Putin has publicly said he prefers US President Joe Biden to his predecessor and aspiring successor Donald […]

 Jurgen Klopp on Friday hailed Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola as the best manager of his lifetime as he prepares his Liverpool team for what could be the final chapter in their captivating rivalry. City have won five out of the past six Premier League titles but Liverpool have been their main rivals over the […]

 In her tiny Athens apartment, 93-year-old Ioanna Matsouka has knit thousands of brightly coloured scarves for children in need from Greece to Ukraine – and she has no plans to quit just yet. “Until I die, I will be knitting,” Matsouka said. Her knitting needles clicked through her expert fingers, her nails painted red. “It […]

Large swaths of Australia on Saturday sweated through severe heatwave conditions that lifted bushfire risk in the country’s southeast. The nation’s weather forecaster on Saturday had heatwave alerts in place for South Australia, New South Wales, Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and Victoria, warning temperatures in some regions could go above 40 degrees Celsius (104 […]

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said some employees released into Gaza from Israeli detention reported having been pressured by Israeli authorities into falsely stating that the agency has Hamas links and that staff took part in the Oct. 7 attacks. The assertions are contained in a report by the UN Relief and Works Agency […]

Elections set to be held in South Sudan in December are not on a path for a credible process without urgent action, a senior US State Department official warned, as the government lags in its preparations. The official, asked in an interview with Reuters whether the election was on the path to be a sham […]

Hungary’s right-wing nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban lent his support to his long-time ally Donald Trump’s bid to return to White House after meeting the former US president in Florida late on Friday. The two discussed “a wide range of issues affecting Hungary and the United States, including the paramount importance of strong and secure […]