Philippines President orders urgent aid as storm Nalgae kills 45
Manila, PhilippinesReuters Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr, on Saturday ordered urgent aid distribution in a southern province where landslides have been triggered by Tropical Storm Nalgae, which has killed 45 people across the country so far. Heavy rains and strong winds pounded the capital, Manila, and surrounding areas for most of Saturday as Nalgae forced […]
Somalia president: at least 100 people killed in car bombs
Updated: 3pm (AEST)Mogadishu, SomaliaReuters At least 100 people were killed and 300 injured in two car bombs that exploded outside the education ministry in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Saturday, the country’s president said in a statement early on Sunday. Authorities said the Islamist group al-Shabaab carried out the attack, which they said had targeted the […]
South Korea’s Yoon declares mourning period after Halloween crush kills 151
Updated: 2:40pm (AEST)Seoul, South KoreaReuters South Korea’s President Yoon Suk-yeol declared a period of national mourning on Sunday after a Halloween crush killed some 151 people in a packed nightlife area in Seoul. Yoon expressed condolences to the victims, mostly teenagers and people in their 20s, and his wishes for a speedy recovery to the […]
Big cat cubs rescued from Ukraine reach Poland
Warsaw, PolandReuters Four lion cubs and a black leopard cub from war-torn Ukraine have found safety in a Polish zoo, the International Fund for Animal Welfare said, after surviving drone attacks and bombing in the first few months of their lives. The cubs were transferred to animal rescue organisations in Kyiv and Odesa after a […]
Mussolini’s ghost clings to Rome, 100 years after power grab
Rome, ItalyReuters One hundred years after Benito Mussolini grabbed power in Rome, his photograph still hangs in the prime minister’s official residence, striking evidence that Italy has yet to shake off its fascist legacy. While Germany systematically scrubbed clean any symbols of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime after World War II, Italians took a much less […]
Vatican’s anti-child abuse panel to issue first full report in 2024
Vatican CityReuters The Vatican panel due to produce annual reports on child abuse prevention within the Catholic Church will not deliver its first full review until 2024, its secretary said on Friday. In April, after a wider constitutional overhaul of Vatican structures, Pope Francis gave the Pontifical Council for the Protection of Minors a mandate […]
Cold War flashbacks: Russian nuclear rhetoric rekindles German fears
TOM SIMS, of Reuters, reports that with the Ukraine border less than a nine-hour drive from Berlin, war feels uncomfortably close for many in Germany…
Calvin Butts, leader of Harlem’s historic Abyssinian Baptist Church, dies at 73
United StatesRNS Rev Calvin O. Butts III, the senior pastor of New York’s historic Abyssinian Baptist Church, who followed in the footsteps of prominent Black ministers and paved his own path of leadership in education, health and political circles, died on Friday, his church announced. “It is with profound sadness, we announce the passing of […]
Iran protests flare again as UN voices concern at detainees’ treatment
Dubai, United Arab EmiratesReuters Iranians kept up protests calling for the toppling of the Islamic Republic on Friday, as activists posted videos of crowds demanding the death of the supreme leader and the widely feared Basij militia he unleashed against them. Iran has been gripped by protests since the death of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa […]
Russia declares end of Ukraine mobilisation campaign, US sending more arms
Frontlines north iof Kherson, Ukraine Reuters Russia said on Friday it had finished calling up reservists to fight in Ukraine, having drafted hundreds of thousands in a month and sending more than a quarter of them already to the battlefield after a divisive mobilisation campaign that was its first since World War II. The United […]