In the US, National Baptists choose Connecticut pastor Boise Kimber as next president
Baltimore, US RNS After an unusual election that gave voters the choice on the ballot of a name or a “no,” members of the National Baptist Convention, USA, lined up behind a new president, Rev Boise Kimber, senior pastor of First Calvary Baptist Church in New Haven, Connecticut. Kimber, who ran unopposed but needed the […]
Charges against father of Georgia shooting suspect test emerging legal strategy
Atlanta, US Reuters Less than an hour after his 14-year-old son appeared in a Georgia courtroom on murder charges on Friday, Colin Gray found himself in the same courtroom seat, anxiously rocking back and forth as prosecutors accused him of bearing responsibility for the deaths caused by the boy’s rampage. The initial appearances by Colin […]
Israeli troops shoot Turkish-American woman dead at West Bank protest, officials say
Ramallah, West Bank Reuters Israeli troops shot and killed a Turkish-American woman who had been taking part in a protest against settlement expansion in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Friday, Palestinian and Turkish officials said. The White House said it was deeply disturbed by the death of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi and called on Israel to […]
Without astronauts, Boeing’s Starliner undocks from space station
Washington DC, US Reuters Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station on Friday, leaving behind its first crew of US astronauts to return to Earth empty and finish a drawn-out test mission fraught with technical issues. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who became the first two to fly Starliner in June, […]
Pope Francis, in resource-rich PNG, urges that workers be treated fairly
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea Reuters Pope Francis on Saturday called for better treatment of workers in Papua New Guinea, a nation of some 600 islands in the south-western Pacific that has become a major target of international companies for its gas, gold and other reserves. In a speech to political authorities in the country, […]
Israeli forces pull out of Jenin leaving a trail of destruction
Jenin, West Bank Reuters Israeli forces pulled out of the Palestinian city of Jenin on Friday, leaving a mass of damaged buildings and infrastructure, following one of the biggest security operations in the occupied West Bank in months. Road diggers began clearing piles of debris and rubble left by the operation, which involved hundreds of […]
UN mission says both Sudan sides committed abuses, peacekeepers needed
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters Both sides in Sudan’s civil war have committed abuses that may amount to war crimes, and world powers need to send in peacekeepers and widen an arms embargo to protect civilians, a UN-mandated mission said on Friday. Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have both raped and attacked civilians, […]
Hundreds mourn mother and daughters killed in Russian strike on Lviv
Lviv, Ukraine Reuters Hundreds of residents of Lviv packed into a church on Friday to mourn three sisters and their mother, killed in a Russian strike that hit their home in the western Ukrainian city many hundreds of miles from the front line. Seven civilians were killed and more than 50 wounded in Wednesday’s drone […]
Israeli strikes kill 27 Palestinians in Gaza as polio vaccination resumes
Cairo, Egypt Reuters Israeli military strikes killed at least 27 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Friday, medics said, as health officials resumed vaccination of tens of thousands more children in the enclave against polio. In Nuseirat, one of the territory’s eight historic refugee camps, an Israeli airstrike killed two women and two children, while […]
Pope Francis arrives in Papua New Guinea, country two of 12-day trip
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea Reuters Pope Francis arrived in Papua New Guinea on Friday evening from Indonesia, where the 87-year-old leader of the global Catholic Church will continue an ambitious 12-day tour across South-East Asia and Oceania. The Garuda Indonesia plane carrying the Pope and his entourage arrived in Port Moresby, the Papua New […]