Uganda sends more troops to pursue attackers who killed 37 students
Kampala, UgandaReuters Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni on Sunday ordered more troops to western Uganda where attackers from a group with links to Islamic State killed at least 37 secondary school students. Members of the rebel Allied Democratic Forces killed the students late on Friday at Lhubirira Secondary School in Mpondwe, near the border with the […]
Lebanon’s top Christian cleric slams failed attempt to elect a president
Beirut, LebanonReuters Lebanon’s top Christian cleric said on Sunday the constitution and democratic system had been violated in “cold blood” during a failed attempt to elect a new president last week, and warned that divisions in the nation had widened. Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rai spoke in his first sermon since the Iran-backed Shi’ite group Hezbollah […]
Start of truce period brings lull in fighting to Sudan’s capital
Dubai, United Arab EmiratesReuters The start of a 72-hour ceasefire aimed at calming more than two months of conflict between rival Sudanese military factions brought a lull in clashes in Khartoum early on Sunday following battles and air strikes overnight, residents said. Sudan’s army and the rival Rapid Support Forces have agreed to refrain from […]
Russia reports fierce fighting as African peace mission leaves empty-handed
Reuters Russia reported fierce fighting on Sunday on three sections of the front line in Ukraine, a day after hosting an African peace mission that failed to spark enthusiasm from either Moscow or Kyiv. Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with African leaders. PICTURE: Pavel Bednyakov/RIA Novosti via Reuters A Russian-installed official said Ukraine had recaptured Piatykhatky, a […]
India eases curfew in violence-hit Manipur
Guwahati, India Reuters Indian authorities said on Sunday they had started to relax a curfew imposed in violence-hit Manipur after 45 days of civil unrest in the north-east state, seeking to reduce anger spilling onto the streets and restore normalcy. “We have decided to remove curfew from 5am until 5pm to enable residents to buy […]
WHO says toxic syrup risk “ongoing”, more countries hit
London, UKReuters There is an ongoing global threat posed by toxic cough syrups, the World Health Organization told Reuters, saying it was now working with six more countries than previously revealed to track the potentially deadly children’s medicines. The UN agency has already named nine countries where tainted syrups may have been on sale, after […]
UN human rights chief urges clamp-down on people smugglers after shipwreck
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights called on Friday for countries to clamp down on people smugglers and human traffickers after at least 78 migrants were killed in a shipwreck off the coast of Greece. Witness accounts suggested between 400 and 750 people had packed a fishing boat that capsized and […]
The Long Read: Four ways to leave your denomination – How churches are disaffiliating from the UMC
To date, 5,550 of the United Methodist Church’s approximately 30,000 US churches have disaffiliated from the country’s second-largest Protestant denomination since 2019. EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER and BELYNN HOLLERS, of Religion News Service, report…
Mexican officials find 129 migrants in truck amid heat wave
Mexico City Reuters Mexican authorities found 129 migrants, mostly from Guatemala, crowded into a truck trailer in the eastern state of Veracruz, the National Migration Institute said in a statement on Saturday. The migrants were crammed into a trailer in the midst of a heat wave in Mexico, where higher-than-normal temperatures have topped 45 degrees […]
First ‘Trooping the Colour’ parade for Britain’s King Charles III
London, UKReuters Britain’s King Charles III celebrated his first official birthday parade as sovereign on Saturday, riding on horseback to inspect soldiers in a ceremony that has been an annual event since 1760. The parade, known as “Trooping the Colour”, comes just weeks after Charles’s coronation on 6th May, another ceremony featuring soldiers marching in […]