Israel’s foreign minister Gideon Saar (Image: AP) Israel’s foreign minister Gideon Saar said Sunday that the country has fully endorsed US President Donald Trump‘s aid plan for Gaza, laid out by the American envoy to Israel.Israel has blocked aid from entering the Palestinian territory since early March, a move aid groups say has led to […]
Meghan Markle’s father has moved out of Mexico and settled in the hot, humid city of Cebu in the Philippines. Meghan Markle‘s estranged father Thomas Markle Sr is struggling at the age of 80 as the former Hollywood lighting director has moved out of Mexico and stays in a $660 per month high-rise apartment in […]
Representative Image (AI) For the inhabitants of remote South African villages, getting access to medication is a challenge. HIV patients like 19-year-old Nozuko Majola must travel more than an hour to get the vital antiretroviral medication they need.But it wasn’t always like this.“We used to get the drugs delivered to our homes, but since Donald […]
Representative Image (AI) Celestil, 24, lives in Davao City, located on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, the stronghold of former President Rodrigo Duterte. Since she was born, a member of the Duterte family has always been the city’s mayor.First, it was the former president who was mayor for over 20 years, followed by his […]
Pope Leo XIV will greet the crowd from the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica on Sunday, leading a prayer to the Virgin Mary in his second official public appearance since becoming the leader of the Catholic Church.The noon (1000 GMT) prayer is expected to draw thousands of people anxious for a closer look at the […]
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has filed a lawsuit against the German domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), which recently labeled the far-right party as “confirmed right-wing extremist.”On Thursday, the BfV complied with the AfD’s request to follow a so-called “standstill commitment” (Stillhaltezusage). This means that the agency […]
Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi (Image: AP) Iran‘s foreign minister on Sunday said the country’s right to nuclear enrichment was “non-negotiable”, ahead of the fourth round of talks in Oman with the US over Tehran’s atomic programme. The negotiations follow earlier rounds that began nearly a month ago, marking the highest-level contact between the two […]
A Turkish student from Tufts University in Massachusetts — released from a Louisiana immigration detention center, Friday — has returned to Boston and has vowed to continue her case in court.Rumeysa Ozturk, a PhD student, was held for more than six weeks after being arrested by immigration officers close to the university in March.Ozturk had […]
Newly elected Pope Leo XIV hailed his predecessor Pope Francis in a meeting of cardinals on Saturday and said he intended to follow in the late pontiff’s footsteps, signalling the continuation of the late pope’s relatively progressive agenda.Leo addressed a meeting of cardinals, his first since being elected the 267th pope on Thursday.The Chicago-born pope […]
Passenger bus skids off a cliff in Sri Lanka (AP) COLOMBO: A passenger bus skidded off a cliff in Sri Lanka’s tea-growing hill country on Sunday, killing 21 people and injuring at least 14 others, an official said. The accident occurred in the early hours of Sunday near the town of Kotmale, about 140 kilometers […]
