EU warns against unilateral steps after Poland, Hungary ban Ukrainian grain
Warsaw, PolandReuters Unilateral action on trade by European Union member states is unacceptable, the bloc’s executive said on Sunday, after Poland and Hungary announced bans on grain and other food imports from Ukraine to protect their local agricultural sectors. After Russia’s invasion blocked some Black Sea ports, large quantities of Ukrainian grain, which is cheaper […]
Pope Francis calls “insinuations” against John Paul II unfounded
Vatican City Reuters Pope Francis on Sunday rejected as offensive and unfounded what he called insinuations by the brother of a Vatican schoolgirl who went missing 40 years ago about one of his predecessors as pontiff, Saint John Paul II. Emanuela Orlandi, the daughter of a Vatican usher, failed to return home on 22nd June, […]
Sudan’s army pounds paramilitary bases with air strikes in power struggle
Khartoum, Sudan Reuters Sudan’s army appeared to gain the upper hand on Sunday in a bloody power struggle with rival paramilitary forces after blasting its bases with air strikes, witnesses said, and at least 59 civilians were killed including three UN workers. The fighting erupted on Saturday between army units loyal to General Abdel Fattah […]
Gunmen storm Mexican resort, kill seven, including child
Mexico City Reuters Armed men on Saturday killed a child and six others after storming a resort in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, authorities said, in a region increasingly plagued by drug cartel violence. Footage widely shared on social media showed the aftermath of the attack in a palm-studded resort in the small town […]
Russia’s Wagner releases over 100 Ukrainian prisoners of war for Orthodox Easter
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters Russia’s most powerful mercenary group, Wagner, sent at least 100 Ukrainian prisoners of war back to Ukrainian forces to mark Orthodox Easter, according to a video posted by the group’s founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin, on Sunday. “Prepare all of them, feed and water them, check the wounded,” Prigozhin was shown saying in a […]
Vast military procession to mark King Charles’ coronation
London, UK Reuters Around 5,000 members of the British armed forces will participate in the coronation of King Charles III next month, joined by soldiers from more than 30 Commonwealth countries to form one of the largest ceremonial military operations in decades. Charles will be crowned at London’s Westminster Abbey on 6th May in a […]
Atomic ‘angst’ over? Germany closes last nuclear plants
Berlin, Germany Reuters Germany was set to pull the plug on its last three nuclear power stations by Saturday, ending a six-decade program that spawned one of Europe’s strongest protest movements but saw a brief reprieve due to the Ukraine war. The smoking towers of Isar II, Emsland and Neckarwestheim II reactors were to shut […]
Four Kenyans, told their work on Earth was done, fast to death, police say
Nairobi, Kenya Reuters Fifteen “radicalised” Kenyan Christians were rescued on Friday from a fast which began after they were told they were going to meet their maker, but four died during the rescue mission, police said. All 15 were members of the Good News International Church in the coastal county of Kilifi, police said. “In […]
Safe housing?: After earthquake, Istanbul gripped by fear that bigger disaster awaits
BIRSEN ALTAYLI and CAN SEZER, of Reuters, report on growing concerns over the safety of housing in Turkey’s biggest city…
France’s Macron signs contested pension law as unions plan more protests
Paris, France Reuters French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday signed into law a deeply unpopular bill to raise the state pension age, infuriating unions that called for months of mass protests to continue. The proclamation of the law in the government’s official journal came hours after France’s Constitutional Council had approved the main pension-age increase […]