VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis, who has been using a wheelchair because of a bad knee, is going ahead with plans to visit Canada this summer so he can apologize in person for abuse suffered by Indigenous people at the hands of the Catholic church. The Vatican on Friday announced that Francis will
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CLUJ-NAPOCA, Romania — Expectant mother Galina Kubiak says she misses her home in Ukraine but has fallen in love with Romania, the neighboring country where she fled with her two small children to escape the war. “Sometimes we go to the store, and they find out we’re Ukrainians and people give the kids milk or […]
Kyiv (Ukraine)- Journalists packed a small courtroom in Kyiv to trial a captured Russian soldier accused of killing a Ukrainian civilian early in the war. The first of dozens of war crimes cases that Ukraine’s top prosecutor has said her office is investigating. While the trial of Russian Sgt. Vadim Shyshimarin, 21, began in the […]
Baltimore police are searching for the gunmen who killed a pregnant woman, leaving her newborn in the hospital in critical condition. Officers found a man and a 38-year-old pregnant woman shot inside a car at about 8:13 p.m. Thursday, Baltimore police said. Both victims were taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital where the man was immediately […]
Frank James, the man accused of opening fire on a Brooklyn subway train last month, wounding 10 people, pleaded not guilty Friday in federal court to a two-count indictment that includes a federal terrorism charge. James, 62, was arraigned in federal court in Brooklyn Friday afternoon after a federal grand jury indicted him earlier this […]
Police in Hot Springs, Arkansas, are investigating a shooting that occurred after a large fight broke out following a graduation ceremony. The fight happened in a parking lot across from a convention center where the ceremony was being held for Hot Springs World Class High School on Thursday night, according to officials. Multiple injured victims […]
WASHINGTON — The Jan. 6 committee’s remarkable decision to subpoena House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and other congressional Republicans over the insurrection at the Capitol is as rare as the deadly riot itself, deepening the acrimony and distrust among lawmakers and raising questions about what comes next. The outcome is certain to reverberate beyond the […]
40 days of mourning announced. Work at ministries, departments, and federal and local institutions will be suspended today. Abu Dhabi (UAE)- Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates, died on Friday at the age of 73, according to state media, after battling illness for several years. “The Ministry of Presidential Affairs […]
Thousands of Palestinians are likely to attend the funeral in Jerusalem. Jerusalem(Israel)- Thousands of Palestinians will attend the funeral of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh at a Catholic church in Jerusalem’s Old City before burial, On Friday afternoon. Who was said shot dead by Israeli forces earlier this week while covering a military operation
Seoul (South Korea)- Six people have died, and 350,000 people are in treatment in North Korea after the country’s first acknowledgement of a COVID-19 outbreak. The full scope of the outbreak is unknown. Still, in a country with a broken healthcare system and an unvaccinated and malnourished population, a significant COVID-19 attack could be devastating. […]