Pakistani PM angers India with plan to change Kashmir status
Islamabad, PakistanAP Pakistan’s Prime Minister has rekindled controversy with archrival India this week by pledging to make part of the Pakistani-administered Himalayan region of Kashmir officially part his country. Imran Khan’s pledge to declare the area of Gilgit-Baltistan – which is part of the Pakistani-ruled Kashmir – the fifth province of Pakistan promptly angered neighbouring […]
Postcards special: US election 1 – A nun spends her Election Day defending the polls in Wisconsin
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, reports on the role clergy played at the US polls on Tuesday…
Pope returns to private library for audience as virus surges; tightens oversight of creation of new religious orders
Rome, ItalyAP Pope Francis urged people to follow recommendations from governments and health authorities to prevent coronavirus infections as he returned to his private library for his Wednesday general audience amid a surge of infections in Europe. In another sign that the Vatican was re-entering a semi-lockdown mode again, the Holy See announced that it […]
Vienna gunman rampaged alone, intelligence was fumbled – Austrian minister
Vienna, AustriaReuters Large quantities of mobile phone footage have confirmed that the jihadist who killed four people in a rampage in Vienna on Monday was the only gunman, but Austria fumbled intelligence on him, Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said on Wednesday. Austria arrested 14 people aged 18 to 28 on Tuesday in connection with the […]
US formally exits global climate pact amid election uncertainty
Washington DC, US/Brussels, BelgiumReuters The United States formally exited the Paris Agreement on Wednesday, fulfilling an old promise by President Donald Trump to withdraw the world’s second-largest greenhouse gas emitter from the global pact to fight climate change. But the outcome of the tight US election contest will determine for how long. Trump’s Democratic rival, […]
As America counts, the world holds its breath for US election outcome
London, UK/Lagos, Nigeria/Sarajevo, Bosnia and HerzogovinaReuters A day after Americans voted in a bitterly contested election, the rest of the world was none the wiser on Wednesday, with millions of votes still to count, the race too close to call and a mounting risk of days or even weeks of legal uncertainty. Donald Trump’s pre-emptive […]
US election – Trump wants Supreme Court involved in election
AP President Donald Trump is vowing to ask the Supreme Court to weigh in on the inconclusive election. The Associated Press has not declared a winner in the presidential race. Trump appeared before supporters at the White House early Wednesday morning and cried foul over the election results, calling the process “a major fraud on […]
US state of Mississippi approves flag with magnolia, “In God We Trust”
Jackson, Mississippi, USAP Mississippi will fly a new state flag with a magnolia and the phrase “In God We Trust”, with voters approving the design Tuesday. It replaces a Confederate-themed flag state lawmakers retired months ago as part of the national reckoning over racial injustice. The magnolia flag was the only design on the general […]
Updated: US election – Trump wins Florida, locked in other tight races with Biden
Updated: 5.15pm (AEDT)Washington DC, USAP President Donald Trump won Florida, the nation’s most prized battleground state, as he and Democrat Joe Biden on Tuesday battled to the finish of an epic campaign that will shape America’s response to the surging pandemic and foundational questions of economic fairness and racial justice. The two men were locked […]
Lung damage found in COVID dead may shed light on ‘long COVID’ – study
London, UKReuters A study of the lungs of people who have died from COVID-19 has found persistent and extensive lung damage in most cases and may help doctors understand what is behind a syndrome known as ‘long COVID’, in which patients suffer ongoing symptoms for months. Scientists leading the research said they also found some […]