ReutersWorld leaders may be gathering on Saturday to pay their respects to a fellow statesman whose church has more members than their states have citizens.
But they may also use the Pope’s funeral as a rare and unexpected opportunity to conduct a…
Category: 2. World
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More than a million children in Gaza are at risk’ of famine
Famine is spreading in the Gaza Strip, with “more than a million children at risk”, the Gaza Government Media Office says.
“Vital sectors in Gaza are collapsing amid a stifling blockade and shameful international silence. We warn that…
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The planned polls in South Lebanon irritate anti-resistance team
BEIRUT — The anti-resistance team does not hide its objection to the municipal elections in south Lebanon that will coincide with Resistance and Liberation Day, May 25th. This reflects the anti-resistance team’s deplorable and resounding…
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Iran transforms Qeshm Island into Persian Gulf bunkering hub
Fatemeh Masoumi
Press TV, TehranIran is planning to transform Qeshm Island, located in the south of the country, into a major bunkering hub in the Persian Gulf. The move aims…
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‘My bananas were seized and destroyed’
Sammy AwamiBBC News, Karonga
BBC / Sammy AwamiJeniffa Mshani says small traders, mostly women, are being harassed at the border Traders are counting their losses as Tanzania clamps down on people trying to flout a ban on goods from neighbouring…
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Why Pope Francis won’t be buried in the Vatican
BBC News correspondent Maryam Moshiri explains why the late Pope Francis won’t be buried in the Vatican, breaking a 100-year-old tradition.
Instead, on Saturday he will be buried at one of Rome’s four major basilicas and one of the oldest in the…
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Putin and Trump envoy Witkoff hold ‘constructive’ talks in Moscow, Russian aide says
US envoy Steve Witkoff and Russian President Vladimir Putin had “constructive” talks in Moscow on Friday lasting three hours, according to an aide of Putin’s.
Yuri Ushakov said the possibility of Russia and Ukraine resuming direct talks was a…
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China’s private economy expands steadily in Q1
China’s private economy reported steady growth in the first quarter of the year, boosted by a slew of supportive policies, according to the guest speakers of the latest episode of the China Economic Roundtable, an all-media talk show hosted by…
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Israel’s muted response to Pope Francis’s death signals tensions over Gaza
The office of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has offered its condolences for Pope Francis, four days after his death.
An earlier offer of condolences posted on social media by the official state account of Israel had previously been…
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