Category: 4. World

Pope Leo XIV celebrated Lebanon’s tradition of interfaith coexistence Monday as a beacon of hope for a conflict-torn region, as he asked for “the divine gift of peace” alongside the country’s Christian and Muslim religious leaders.

Leo received a raucous, ululating welcome from the…

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Medan, Indonesia – As floodwaters burst into Nurdin and his wife’s home in Indonesia’s Aceh Province last week, the elderly couple crawled onto their bed.

Nurdin, who uses a wheelchair following a stroke, resigned himself to his fate.

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Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of the capital, Sofia, as well as at least a dozen other cities on Monday evening in the biggest protests the Balkan country has seen for years.

In central Sofia, demonstrators packed…

But Tusk, under pressure from the opposition nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party, took a harder line on the matter than he has in the past, criticizing Germany’s logic for refusing to pay war reparations to Poland.

“We in Poland all…

For days before the explosions began, the business park had been emptying out. When the bombs went off, they took down empty office blocks and demolished echoing, multi-cuisine food halls. Dynamite toppled a four-storey hospital, silent karaoke…