Pope Francis calls for humanitarian corridors to help those under siege in Gaza
Reuters :Pope Francis on Sunday called for humanitarian corridors to help those under siege in Gaza and again appealed for the release of hostages held...
International
Blinken meets Saudi crown prince on Mideast crisis tour
AFP :US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, on a crisis tour of the Middle East, met Sunday with the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia,...
Australia votes in referendum on giving voice to nation’s Indigenous people
Al Jazeera :Australians are voting on whether their nation’s constitution should be amended to enshrine a mechanism for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to...
Saudi pauses talks on normalisation with Israel: Source
AFP :Saudi Arabia has suspended talks on potentially normalising ties with Israel, a source told AFP on Saturday, amid the war raging between Israel and...
Polls close as centre-right parties look to dethrone New Zealand government
AFP :A coalition of centre-right parties was Saturday hoping to sweep New Zealand’s government from power, ending a six-year Labour Party reign ushered in by...
Court overturns sentence for Guatemala newspaper founder
AFP :A Guatemalan appeals court on Friday overturned a six-year prison sentence handed down in June to the founder of one of the country’s top...
Louise Gluck, US poet and 2020 Nobel laureate, dies at 80
AFP :American poet Louise Gluck, winner of the Nobel prize for her distinctively austere writing that touched on themes of mythology and the universal human...
Disposable diaper scare causes Panama-Florida flight to turn around
AFP :A flight from Panama to the United States made a u-turn Friday after the discovery of a suspicious package in the toilet that turned...
North Korea decries port visit by US nuclear-powered carrier
AFP :Pyongyang on Friday slammed a South Korean port visit by the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, saying it showed Washington had reached “the most...
US to announce $12m in aid for Afghanistan following earthquakes
Reuters :The United States is providing $12 million in immediate humanitarian assistance to respond to earthquakes in Afghanistan this month that have killed and injured...
Mali sends troops to northern town ahead of UN retreat
AFP :Several dozen Malian soldiers and Russian paramilitary fighters have arrived in the northern town of Tessalit, where the UN mission will soon leave its...
US displays drones from Ukraine it says Iran made
AFP :US military officials displayed what they said were pieces of Iranian drones recovered in Ukraine to UN member states on Thursday — evidence, according...