Ukrainian troops holding Bakhmut line demand weapons as world powers meet
Near Bakhmut, Ukraine/Munich, Germany Reuters Ukrainian soldiers fighting to hold off a Russian push on the small eastern city of Bakhmut pleaded for more weapons from the outside world as senior Western leaders met in Munich on Friday to assess the year-long war shaking Europe. “Give us more military equipment, more weapons, and we will […]
Three rescued from Turkey rubble as earthquake death toll passes 45,000
Kahramanmaris/Antakya, Turkey Reuters Rescue teams pulled three people alive from under collapsed buildings in Turkey on Friday, 11 days after an earthquake that has killed more than 45,000, left millions homeless, and sparked a huge relief effort. Mosques around the world performed absentee funeral prayers for the dead in Turkey and Syria, many of whom […]
UN seeks $US1.3 billion for Nigerians affected by insurgency
Lagos, Nigeria Reuters The United Nations on Thursday appealed for $US1.3 billion to provide assistance to six million Nigerians who are suffering the impact of a long-running Islamist insurgency in the north-east of the country. The militant Boko Haram group and its offshoot, Islamic State West Africa Province, have been fighting Nigerian security forces in […]
Snapshot: Church of St John at Kaneo, North Macedonia
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The TCM Update: The rise of the “featured artist”
Steven Curtis Chapman and country singer Mitchell Tenpenny have teamed up for a new version of ‘Don’t Lose Heart’. Listen to this week’s TCM Update…
On the Screen: ‘Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania’ goes into dangerous new territory
MARCUS CHEONG watches the latest ‘Ant-Man and The Wasp’ movie…
South Korean victims of Japan forced labour accuse Seoul of rushing compensation
Seoul, South Korea Reuters A group of South Korean victims of Japan’s wartime forced labour accused Seoul of rushing a compensation plan with Tokyo for diplomatic and political gains, amid a prolonged legal battle over the neighbours’ chequered history. The two countries have been odds over a 2018 ruling by South Korea’s Supreme Court that […]
Cyclone in New Zealand leaves seven dead, trail of chaos
Wellington, New Zealand Reuters Recovery efforts continue in hard-hit areas of New Zealand on Friday after Cylcone Gabrielle caused chaos leaving at least seven people dead, displacing 10,000 people in the country’s most damaging storm in decades. Gabrielle, which hit New Zealand on Sunday before making its way down the east coast of the North […]
Twenty killed in Tajikstan avalanches
Dushanbe, Tajikstan Reuters A series of avalanches has killed 10 more people in eastern Tajikistan, the Central Asian nation’s government said on Thursday, bringing the death toll over the past two days to 20 and forcing hundreds of families from their homes. A view shows the area affected by an avalanche in Gorno-Badakhshan region, Tajikistan, […]
Stanley Rother: $US50 million shrine to honour slain priest, first US Catholic martyr
BOBBY ROSS, JR, writing for Associated Press, reports from Oklahoma City ahead of the official opening of a shrine dedicated to Stanley Rother, a missionary from Oklahoma, who was killed in Guatemala in 1981…