Pope Leo XIV bares cross for full Good Friday procession, a feat not seen in decades
Pope Leo XIV marked his first Good Friday by becoming the first pontiff in decades to personally carry the wooden cross for all 14 stations at the Colosseum.
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April 4, 2026 Russia chose ‘Easter escalation’ over ceasefire, says Zelensky
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Moscow of choosing “Easter escalation” over an Easter ceasefire after Russia carried out another deadly large-scale drone and missile attack on Ukraine. Six civilians were killed and 40 others injured as Russia launched hundreds of drones and missiles across the country. Major daytime attacks, which were once rare, have […]
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April 3, 2026 Artemis II completes first of 10-day NASA lunar mission
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – A towering orange-and-white NASA rocket blasted off from Florida on Wednesday evening, lifting four astronauts toward space and transporting spectators’ imaginations to a future in which Americans may again set foot on the moon.
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April 1, 2026 Asia’s migrant workers debate if Gulf jobs are worth deadly risk of Iran war
All Norma Tactacon can do is pray as the sirens blare. The 49-year-old, who works in the Middle East as a domestic worker, is thousands of miles away from her home in the Philippines, where her husband and three children live. Stuck in Qatar, which is caught in the crossfire of the US and Israel’s […]
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March 31, 2026 Iran using children in security roles in war, reports and witnesses say
The death of an 11-year-old Iranian boy reportedly in an air strike while manning a security checkpoint alongside his father in Tehran has thrown focus on a new initiative to recruit children into the security services. Alireza Jafari’s mother Sadaf Monfared told the municipality-run newspaper Hamshahri that the pair had been helping Basij volunteer militia […]
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March 31, 2026 Catholic Easter services in Jerusalem to be held beind closed doors
Catholic Easter services at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the holiest site of Christianity, will be held behind closed doors, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem said Tuesday.
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March 30, 2026 Zelensky says allies asked him to scale back attacks on Russian energy
Volodymyr Zelensky has said Ukraine’s allies have urged him to scale back attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure amid the ongoing global fuel crisis – but that they would only end if Russia stopped targeting Ukraine’s first. The Ukrainian president told journalists in a WhatsApp voice message that, by launching attacks on Russia’s energy system, Ukraine […]
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March 29, 2026 Potential Houthi threat to Red Sea shipping could further damage global economy
The Houthis held their fire for the first four weeks of the war, despite their affiliation with and backing from Iran. Now, the movement that still holds the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, and the north and other areas of the country, has made its first move, firing missiles towards Israel. The Houthis say they were targeting […]
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March 28, 2026 How Trump and the oil markets move in sync: a tango in five charts
It can be hard to pin down what is guiding Donald Trump a month into US and Israel’s programme of strikes on Iran. But it is clear he has an eye on the oil markets. A word – or social media post – from the US president about his plans used to spark big moves […]
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