Pakistan flood toll rises with 25 children among 57 more deaths
Karachi, PakistanReuters The toll from cataclysmic floods in Pakistan continued to climb on Saturday with 57 more deaths, 25 of them children, as the country grapples with a relief and rescue operation of near unprecedented scale. A high-level body set up to coordinate the relief effort met in Islamabad on Saturday for the first time, […]
Russia calls ageing space station “dangerous” as it plans successor
Reuters The International Space Station is dangerous and unfit for purpose, Russia’s space chief said on Thursday, as Moscow pushes ahead with plans to quit the project and launch its own station. Yuri Borisov, head of the Roscosmos agency, said mass equipment failures and ageing parts were endangering crew safety on the 24-year-old station. The […]
On the Screen: A stunning return to Middle-earth
DAVID ADAMS watches the first couple of episodes of ‘The Rings of Power’…
Dozens of migrant children reported missing in Houston, raising alarms
Reuters Federal and local officials are scrambling to locate close to a dozen unaccompanied migrant children, after Houston police raised concerns about dozens of migrant children reported missing in the Texas city since last year, according to US Government officials and related emails reviewed by Reuters. The cases underscore the challenges for US President Joe […]
A self-styled prophet in Uganda charged with assault after viral video showing him flogging congregants
Kampala, Uganda Police in Uganda have charged a self-styled prophet who allegedly flogged his flock for failing to listen to his directives. Denis Kintu was arrested on Wednesday after a video allegedly showing him flogging his flock at the Empowerment City Church in Hoima went viral on social media. On Thursday, police charged Kintu with 17 […]
Celebrating Tolkien: You’ve seen ‘The Rings of Power,’ but have you heard of this tiny museum housing JRR Tolkien’s treasures?
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, reports from the Marion E Wade Center at Wheaton College in the US, one of the foremost research centres not only on Lewis, but also Tolkien and five other British Christian authors who influenced Lewis’ work…
Russia to bury Gorbachev, darling of the West, with a shrug
Reuters Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader beloved of the West who lived long enough to see all the reforms he had championed in his homeland undone, will be buried on Saturday without state honours or the presence of the current Kremlin incumbent. Gorbachev became a hero in the West for allowing eastern Europe to shake […]
Argentina shaken by gun attack on VP Cristina Kirchner
Buenos Aires, ArgentinaReuters Argentines took to the streets of Buenos Aires on Friday in a show of solidarity against an apparent failed assassination attempt on powerful Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, which has shocked the South American country. An assailant pointed a loaded gun from close range at Fernandez de Kirchner outside her Buenos […]
Energy war as West caps Russian oil price, Moscow keeps gas pipe shut
Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine Reuters Rich countries agreed on Friday to try to cap the global price of Russian oil, while Russia delayed the re-opening of its main gas pipeline to Germany, as both sides raised the stakes in an energy war between Moscow and the West over Ukraine. Russia’s state-controlled energy giant Gazprom blamed a technical […]