Migration pact to cap Americas summit buffeted by discord
Los Angeles, USReuters US President Joe Biden and fellow leaders of the Americas are set to pitch a plan designed to stem illegal migration and manage record migrant numbers as a regional summit roiled by diplomatic squabbling draws to a close on Friday. Dubbed the “Los Angeles Declaration” and described by Biden as “ground-breaking”, the […]
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Cardinal adviser to Pope Francis says resignation rumours are “cheap soap opera”
Vatican CityRNS In an interview published on Wednesday, Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga dismissed rumours circulating in the media that the Pope might resign as nothing more than “a cheap soap opera”. According to Maradiaga, who advises the Pope within the Council of Cardinals, news reports suggesting Pope Francis’ physical decline will soon lead to […]
On the Screen: ‘Jurassic World Dominion’ bites off more than it can chew
MARCUS CHEONG watched the latest in the Jurassic Park franchise (and the final in the Jurassic World trilogy)…
Quick facts – Surging food prices fuel protests across developing world
Reuters The war in Ukraine and drought fuelled by climate change has sent global prices for grains, cooking oils, fuel and fertiliser soaring. Rising prices for basic food staples is fuelling protests from Indonesia to Iran. Riot police block demonstrators and members of worker unions during a protest against Peru’s President Pedro Castillo’s government and rising food […]
IAEA warns of “fatal blow” to nuclear deal as Iran removes its cameras
Vienna, Austria Reuters Iran on Thursday dealt a near-fatal blow to chances of reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal as it began removing essentially all the International Atomic Energy Agency monitoring equipment installed under the deal, IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said. Iran had warned of retaliation if the IAEA’s 35-nation Board of Governors passed a […]
UN calls for justice after fatal shooting of Myanmar WHO worker
Reuters The United Nations condemned on Thursday the fatal shooting of a World Health Organization employee in eastern Myanmar, the latest in a string of assassinations underlining the chaos in the country since last year’s coup. The UN and the WHO said Myo Min Htut, a WHO driver for five years, was shot dead on […]
Holocaust memorial chairman thanks Pope for opening archives
Vatican CityAP The chairman of Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial said he thanked Pope Francis on Thursday for giving scholars access to the Holy See’s World War II-era archives. Dani Dayan, who met with Francis at the Vatican, said the pontiff described the archives’ opening as “an issue of justice.” Francis visited the memorial during a […]
Storming of the US Capitol: How Christian nationalism paved the way for the 6th January attack
As the January 6 committee hold their first public hearings in the US, JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, reports on how the former US President seemed to frame himself as leading an existential fight against liberal foes, defending America from an attack on the Christian faith…
Updated: As US Capitol attack hearings open, Republican says Trump “lit the flame”
Updated 3.30pm (AEST)Washington DC, USReuters The congressional committee investigating the attack on the US Capitol by Donald Trump’s supporters trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat presented testimony on Thursday showing that close allies – even his daughter – rejected his false claims of voting fraud. The US House of Representatives select committee probing the […]