Nicaragua arrests four more priests, intensifies crackdown on Catholic Church
San Jose, Costa RicaReuters Nicaraguan police detained four more priests early on Saturday, bringing the total number to 12 over the past three days, according to a high-ranking member of the Catholic Church with knowledge of the matter and local media. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, who has governed the Central American country since 2007, has […]
Russia says 20 dead after “indiscriminate” Ukrainian strikes on Belgorod
Reuters Russia said 20 people including two children had been killed and 111 injured in “indiscriminate” Ukrainian strikes allegedly including cluster bombs on the Russian provincial capital of Belgorod on Saturday, and vowed to retaliate. The Belgorod region, which adjoins northern Ukraine, has like other Russian border zones suffered shelling and drone attacks all year […]
Israeli tanks advance deeper into Gaza districts, 12 weeks into war
Cairo, Egypt/Gaza/JerusalemReuters Israeli forces pushed deeper into central and southern Gaza on Saturday with heavy air and artillery fire, residents said, pressing a deadly offensive that has razed much of the enclave and that Israel has said may last months more. Fighting was focused in al-Bureij, Nuseirat, Maghazi and Khan Younis, backed by intensive air […]
Congo election body says it will meet deadline for presidential results
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of CongoReuters The head of Democratic Republic of Congo’s election commission on Friday said it would meet a 31st December deadline for the release of full provisional presidential results, dismissing opposition calls for a re-run of the disputed vote as the response of “bad losers.” The CENI commission has come under fire […]
US military’s secretive spaceplane launched on possible higher-orbit mission
Cape Canaveral, Florida, USReuters The US military’s secretive X-37B robot spaceplane blasted off from Florida on Thursday night on its seventh mission, the first launched atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket capable of delivering it to a higher orbit than ever before. The Falcon Heavy, composed of three liquid-fueled rocket cores strapped together, roared off […]
Aid agencies report looting, suspend operations in Sudanese state
Dubai, United Arab EmiratesReuters Two international aid organisations say that their facilities have been looted and they have suspended operations in an area of Sudan where the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces recently advanced in its war with the army. The halting of operations by the UN World Food Programme and medical charity MSF in El […]
Conservative Cardinal Burke says he is “still alive” after rare Pope meeting
Vatican CityReuters Conservative American Cardinal Raymond Burke, one of Pope Francis’ fiercest critics, had his first private audience with the pontiff in seven years on Friday, a month after the Pope said he was stripping him of some of his Vatican privileges. Asked by Reuters outside his residence in Rome if the meeting had gone […]
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Arrests of Catholic priests in Nicaragua tick up as dragnet intensifies
San JoseReuters Nicaraguan police on Friday arrested two more Catholic priests, bringing the number of clergymen detained this week to at least eight, according to two sources close to the church and opposition groups in exile. The sources, who declined to be named for fear of arrest, said the two priests were taken into custody […]
Russia’s air assault on Ukraine draws criticism at UN Security Council meeting
Reuters Russia drew sharp criticism at the UN Security Council on Friday for launching massive missile and drone attacks against Ukraine, after Kyiv and its supporters called for an urgent meeting of the 15-member body to address the strikes. Russian strikes across Ukraine on Friday killed 31 civilians and wounded more than 160 others in […]