Islamabad, Pakistan
Reuters

Pakistan will reduce its official work week to five days from six in a bid to reduce energy and fuel consumption as part of an energy conservation plan approved by the country's cabinet on Tuesday, the information minister said.

The move comes as hours-long power

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Dhaka, Bangladesh
Reuters

A deadly fire at a container depot in Bangladesh has laid bare the dangers still facing millions of the country's workers a decade after a series of tragedies in the export-focussed garment industry spurred a safety revolution.

Intense scrutiny of Bangladesh and the major

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Mexico City, Mexico
Reuters

Several of the alleged victims of the leader of a Mexico-based church are speaking out ahead of his sentencing, asking for him to receive maximum prison time.

Naason Joaquin, head of the evangelical La Luz del Mundo group, pleaded guilty on Friday to

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London, UK
Reuters

The world must "widen its gaze from the war in Ukraine" to prevent Somalia sliding into famine, the United Nations' children's agency said on Tuesday, warning only a third of the $US250 million needed to stave off catastrophe had so far been raised.

Four consecutive

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United States
RNS

Catholic bishops from the US state of Colorado asked Catholic lawmakers who voted in favour of abortion rights legislation earlier this year to “voluntarily refrain from Holy Communion", according to an open letter signed on Monday and provided to Religion News Service.

“Voting for RHEA

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RNS

The first transgender bishop of the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States has resigned amid criticism over the decision to remove the pastor of a Latino congregation on the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe in December.

“The constant misinformation, bullying and harassment has taken too

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Abuja. Nigeria
AP

Gunmen with explosives killed at least 38 persons including five children in an attack on a Catholic church in south-western Nigeria, the Ondo State Catholic Diocese has told The Associated Press.

Some of the dead "were taken to private hospitals and we have not

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RNS

Police in the Canadian city of Hamilton have charged the disgraced former pastor of one of the country’s largest churches with sexual assault.

Bruxy Cavey, who grew The Meeting House into a megachurch with 20 campuses across the province of Ontario, was charged with one count

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Vatican City
Reuters

The Vatican on Tuesday unveiled a committee to oversee the ethics of its investments, even as a corruption trial related to a botched London real estate deal in which it lost more than €200 million continued.

The committee will be headed by a cardinal, Irish-American

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Kyiv/Druzhkiva, Ukraine
Reuters

Ukraine will fight to recover all its territory occupied by Russian forces, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday, as his troops struggled to hold their ground in bloody street-to-street fighting in the city of Sievierodonetsk.

"We have already lost too many people to simply

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Bogota, Colombia
Reuters

Colombian naval officials conducting underwater monitoring of the long-sunken San Jose galleon have discovered two other historical shipwrecks nearby, President Ivan Duque said on Monday.

The San Jose galleon, thought by historians to be carrying treasure that would be worth billions of dollars, sank

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Tapachula, Mexico
Reuters

Several thousand migrants, many from Venezuela, set off from southern Mexico early Monday aiming to reach the United States, timing their journey to coincide with the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles this week.

Migration activists said the group could be one

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