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Leon XIV urges leaders to abandon arms and embrace peace

Vatican City – Pope Leon XIV on Sunday made a powerful appeal to the international community to put an end to what he described as the “pandemic of weapons,” lamenting the suffering of innocent children who are killed or injured every day in conflicts and acts of violence across the......

Hurricane Katrina: 20 years later, new orleans remembers

Commemorative ceremonies were held in New Orleans on Friday to honor one of the darkest chapters in recent U.S. history. On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the southern United States, leaving unprecedented human and material devastation. The events, organized across the city, aimed both to......

Greta thunberg leads humanitarian flotilla bound for Gaza

A large humanitarian flotilla, led in part by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, set sail from Barcelona on Sunday with the declared aim of challenging the blockade of Gaza. The initiative, called the Global Sumud Flotilla, is presented by its organizers as the “largest mission of solidarity......

China showcases alternative world order at Tianjin gathering

Chinese President Xi Jinping welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin and other key Eurasian leaders on Sunday as China hosts a major summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). The gathering, held in Tianjin, is being presented as a showcase of a new international order led by China, at......

French foreign minister visits Greenland amid geopolitical tensions

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot arrived in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, on Saturday evening for a two-day diplomatic visit. His trip aims to reaffirm France’s solidarity with the people of Greenland, at a time when the Arctic territory has become the focus of renewed international......

EU urges Washington to reconsider Palestinian visa decision

The European Union called on Saturday for the United States to “reconsider” its refusal to grant visas to Palestinian officials planning to attend the UN General Assembly in New York this September. “We urgently request that this decision be reconsidered in light of international law,”......

Alarm over far-right extremists using drones for domestic attacks in the US

US authorities are raising concerns over the potential use of drones by far-right extremists in domestic attacks. Experts warn that both commercially available and home-built first-person view (FPV) drones could become key tools in an anticipated insurgency against the government. Analysts report that......

Utah high court halts firing squad execution of man with Dementia

The Utah Supreme Court on Friday temporarily blocked the execution of Ralph Leroy Menzies, a 67-year-old man convicted of killing Maurine Hunsaker in 1986, after his attorneys argued that he suffers from severe dementia. Menzies had been scheduled to face a firing squad on September 5, a method he chose......

Xi Jinping welcomes world leaders ahead of SCO summit

Chinese President Xi Jinping began hosting foreign leaders on Saturday in Tianjin, northern China, ahead of the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit. Among the first to meet Xi were United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, according......

US judge blocks Trump’s fast-track deportation policy

A federal judge in Washington has blocked the Trump administration’s nationwide expansion of a fast-track deportation process, dealing a blow to the president’s pledge of mass expulsions of undocumented migrants. The “expedited removal” procedure was initially applied only to......

UN warns of enforced disappearances at Gaza aid sites

United Nations experts have issued a stark warning over reports of Palestinians, including children, being forcibly disappeared while attempting to collect humanitarian aid in southern Gaza. These incidents, described as violations of international law, coincide with mounting concerns over a deepening......

Qatari fund pledges $70 billion investment in Southern Africa

The Qatari investment group Al Mansour Holding has announced a $70 billion investment package across four Southern African countries, a move observers see as a strategic shift amid the sharp decline of U.S. aid to the continent. Sheikh Mansour bin Jabor bin Jassim Al Thani, the founder of the fund and......

Smuggler sentenced for selling stolen Egyptian antiquities

A 52-year-old man has been sentenced to six months in prison by the Brooklyn federal court in New York for smuggling Egyptian antiquities. Between 2011 and 2019, the Egyptian-born, naturalized American sold hundreds of ancient objects to auction houses, falsely claiming they came from his grandfather’s......

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