Thousands of Christians gathered in the cavernous Church of the Holy Sepulchre for a centuries-old Holy Fire ceremony.
Holding unlit candles, they packed into the sprawling 12th-century basilica built on the site where, according to tradition,…

Thousands of Christians gathered in the cavernous Church of the Holy Sepulchre for a centuries-old Holy Fire ceremony.
Holding unlit candles, they packed into the sprawling 12th-century basilica built on the site where, according to tradition,…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote a message of unity and faith on the occasion of Easter Sunday, as he accused Russian forces of breaching a temporary ceasefire, earlier declared…

President Volodymyr Zelensky has lauded Ukraine’s “resilience, compassion, and humanity” in his Easter address on April 20, adding the country’s faith has “not faded over 1,152 days of full-scale war.”
This year, Easter falls on…

KYIV (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged Ukrainians on Easter Sunday not to give up hope that peace will return to their country and to persevere to overcome the difficult path of war on which they have been travelling for 1,152 days.
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When an iceberg the size of Chicago broke away the Antarctic Peninsula ice sheet earlier this year, scientists onboard the Falkor (too) research vessel felt compelled to see what had been living beneath it.
The Schmidt Ocean Institute researchers…

Iran and the United States concluded a second round of negotiations on Saturday over Tehran’s nuclear programme, US and Iranian officials said.
There is no immediate readout on how the talks went at the Omani Embassy in Rome’s Camilluccia neighbourhood, but the two nations agreed to…

— Is Trump Helping Putin Defeat Ukraine? ‘Lil Marco Rubio announced yesterday that the Trump administration is on the verge of simply handing Ukraine over to Russia, if Putin won’t go along with the so-called peace deal Trump has offered….

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America’s oldest serving astronaut Dan Pettit has returned to Earth on his 70th birthday.
The Soyuz MS-26 space capsule carrying Pettit and his Russian crewmates Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner made a parachute-assisted landing in Kazakhstan’s…

When Osaka first hosted the World Expo in 1970, a quarter-century after World War II, Japan’s economy was newly affluent and expanding so rapidly it was hailed as an economic miracle. The Expo broadcast that momentum to the world.
It was the…