Pope declares 10 new saints, including Dutch priest killed by Nazis
Vatican CityReuters Pope Francis on Sunday declared 10 people saints of the Roman Catholic Church, including an anti-Nazi Dutch priest murdered in the Dachau concentration camp and a French hermit monk assassinated in Algeria. The 85-year-old Pope, who has been using a wheel chair due to knee and leg pain, was driven to the altar […]
Updated: California churchgoers detained gunman in deadly attack
Updated: 11am (AEST)Laguna Woods, California, USAP Police say churchgoers detained the gunman who shot multiple people Sunday at a California church, calling their intervention an act of “exceptional heroism and bravery”. Police say the suspect in the shooting is an Asian male in his 60s who investigators do not believe lives in the community. A […]
Ex-Somali leader Mohamud wins presidency to face war and drought
Mogadishu, SomaliaReuters Former Somali leader Hassan Sheikh Mohamud won the presidency again in voting by parliamentarians on Sunday in an airport hangar protected by blast walls from Islamist insurgents whom he must now fight for a second time. The 66-year-old, who ruled from 2012 to 2017, reversed the previous election to defeat incumbent President Mohamed […]
Battle rages for Ukrainian region of Donbas
Ruska Lozova, Ukraine Reuters Russia pummelled positions in the east of Ukraine on Sunday, its defence ministry said, as it sought to encircle Ukrainian forces in the battle for Donbas and fend off a counteroffensive around the strategic Russian-controlled city of Izium. At a meeting in Germany, the secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization […]
Ukrainian hospital works overtime as trauma trains evacuate war-wounded
Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine Reuters Since Russia invaded Ukraine, doctors at a military hospital in the south-eastern city of Zaporizhzhia have stayed on the job for days at a time as waves of casualties are rushed to them for treatment from nearby frontline areas. On Wednesday, medics at the hospital prepped a wounded man for surgery to […]
Old gas canisters fuel deadly blasts in Venezuela homes
Caracas, Venezuela Reuters Venezuelan housewife Leoana Maricuto was cooking in the kitchen with her husband and their three-year-old son last week when a gas canister exploded, engulfing her in flames. “My husband was making some potatoes, and all of a sudden the explosion happened,” said Maricuto, 32, as she sat on her bed, legs bandaged, […]
Woman named sexton of historic Boston church for first time
Boston, USAP The thousands of tourists who visit Boston’s Old North Church in the US probably won’t see much of Chelsea Millsap on their trip, even though she may just have the most important job at the historic site. Millsap, 32, who can trace her ancestry to the Pilgrims, is the first woman named sexton […]
The Long Read: For widows in Africa, COVID-19 stole husbands, homes, future
KRISTA LARSON and CHINEDU ASADU, of Associated Press, report on the hardships facing widows in countries across Africa…
Large convoy from Mariupol reaches safety, refugees talk of “devastating” escape
Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine Reuters A large convoy of cars and vans carrying refugees from the ruins of Mariupol arrived in the Ukrainian-controlled city of Zaporizhzhia on Saturday after waiting days for Russian troops to allow them to leave. Mariupol, now mostly Russian-controlled, has been flattened during the 80-day-old war. Ukraine has gradually been evacuating civilians from […]
Palestinians welcome foreign support in inquiry into reporter’s death
Ramallah, West BankReuters The Palestinian Authority said on Saturday it would welcome international support in the inquiry into the death of an Al Jazeera journalist, while Israel said it would investigate an eruption of violence at her funeral. Israeli police charged at a crowd of Palestinian mourners carrying the coffin of veteran reporter Shireen Abu […]