Sudanese say warring factions ignore their plight as hardships grow
Port Sudan, Sudan Reuters Heavy gunfire echoed around Khartoum on Friday as civilians trapped in the Sudanese capital said the army and rival paramilitary were fighting without regard to their plight. Battles since mid-April have killed hundreds and wounded thousands, disrupted aid supplies, sent 100,000 refugees fleeing abroad and turned residential areas of Khartoum into […]
WHO declares end to COVID global health emergency
London, UKReuters The World Health Organization ended the global emergency status for COVID-19 on Friday more than three years after its original declaration, and said countries should now manage the virus that killed more than 6.9 million people along with other infectious diseases. The global health agency’s Emergency Committee met on Thursday and recommended the […]
Updated: King Charles III and royals greet well-wishers ahead of coronation
Updated: 8:15am, 6th May, 2023 (AEST)London, UKReuters King Charles III greeted excited crowds gathering for his coronation before hosting a reception for world leaders at Buckingham Palace on Friday ahead of what will be the biggest ceremonial event in Britain for 70 years. Charles, 74, and his wife Camilla will be crowned at London’s Westminster […]
Updated: Eight dead in second mass shooting in Serbia; police arrest suspect
Updated: 6pm (AEST)Dubona, Serbia Reuters Serbian police arrested on Friday a gunman suspected of killing eight people and wounding 14 others in a village near Belgrade in the second mass shooting in the country this week. “The suspect UB, born in 2002, has been apprehended in the vicinity of the city of Kragujevac, he is […]
Republican leaders of Australia and NZ to pledge allegiance to King
Sydney, Australia/Wellington, New ZealandReuters The leaders of Australia and New Zealand will pledge their allegiance to King Charles at his coronation in London on Saturday even though both are life-long republicans who do not shy away from making their positions clear. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his New Zealand counterpart, Chris Hipkins, have travelled […]
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Joshua Butler, author of controversial book on sex, resigns as pastor of Arizona church
United StatesRNS An evangelical Christian pastor and author whose book on the theology of sex caused a furor online earlier this spring has resigned from the leadership of his Arizona megachurch. “We have found ourselves in an impossible situation,” Joshua Butler wrote to members of Redemption Church in Tempe in announcing his resignation. A copy […]
Indian army steps in to quell violence in north-eastern state of Manipur
Guwahati, India Reuters Soldiers of the Indian Army held flag marches and evacuated thousands of civilians amid a dawn-to-dusk curfew to quell violence between tribal and non-tribal groups in the remote northeastern state of Manipur, officials said on Thursday. Violence initially broke out during a protest march on Tuesday by thousands of tribal people opposing […]
Kenya court frees pastor accused of links to cult leader
Mombasa, Kenya Reuters A Kenyan court on Thursday released on bond a televangelist detained last week as part of an investigation into the deaths of dozens of people whom police say starved themselves to death on the instructions of a cult leader. Kenya’s interior minister accused Pastor Ezekiel Odero after his arrest last Thursday of […]
Nicaragua arrests 40 opposition figures in new round-up of critics
Reuters Forty political opponents of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega have been arrested and charged with crimes including conspiracy and treason in a new round-up of government critics, relatives of five of the detainees said on Thursday. The opposition figures were detained on Wednesday night, taken to the capital Managua to be charged, then transferred back […]