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Africa gears up to welcome the pope
3+ hour, 59+ min ago (1198+ words) AP News - Entertainment SECTIONS Movies Fashion Television Celebrity Interviews Music Books Newsletters AP Entertainment Wire Get AP's first personalized newsletter delivering you entertainment news twice a week. See All Newsletters Four countries in Africa have begun preparations Friday to welcome…...
UK puts Chagos Islands handover deal on hold after Trump withdraws support
10+ hour, 43+ min ago (641+ words) This image released by the U. S. Navy shows an aerial view of Diego Garcia in the Chagos Island group. (U. S. Navy via AP, File) The British government acknowledged Saturday that legislation to ratify the agreement for the islands in the Indian Ocean…...
Gap between rich and poor nations is growing even wider, UN report says
20+ hour, 37+ min ago (335+ words) The report assessing the blueprint adopted in Seville, Spain, last June to narrow the gap and achieve U. N. development goals for 2030 was issued ahead of next week's spring meetings in Washington of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, the…...
Court rules in favor of 4 men deported by the US to Africa and denied lawyer meetings for 9 months
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (588+ words) A lower court had previously ruled that local lawyer Sibusiso Nhlabatsi, who is working on behalf of the men's U. S. -based lawyers, could meet with them, but the Eswatini government immediately appealed that decision. In a ruling delivered on Thursday, the…...
Pope's Africa trip takes him to a source of growth for the church, and critical challenges
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (966+ words) Leo's line, of course, referred to his Augustinian spirituality. But his connection to the Algerian-born St. Augustine, the towering figure of Christianity who is known well to Algeria's Sunni Muslim majority, served at the very least to favorably introduce Leo…...
A country-by-country glance at Pope Leo XIV's trip to Africa
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (925+ words) Pope Leo XIV's four-nation, 11-day trip to Africa is so dizzying in its complexity it recalls some of the globetrotting odysseys of St. John Paul II in his early years. Themes Leo is expected to raise include Christian-Muslim coexistence, the…...
Miner found alive in flooded Mexico mine after being trapped for two weeks
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (1638+ words) Rescue teams pulled a trapped miner to safety after nearly two weeks inside a flooded gold mine in northwestern Mexico. Miner found alive in flooded Mexico mine after being trapped for two weeks A veteran U. S. law enforcement agent secretly tried…...
Cameroon says Russia has confirmed 16 Cameroonian soldiers died in Ukraine
4+ day, 14+ hour ago (209+ words) In the memo addressed to the embassy, the country's foreign affairs ministry acknowledged the death of 16 Cameroonian soldiers serving in the special military operations zone in Ukraine. The ministry said "necessary arrangements" had been made to contact the families of…...
'Wow!' The eye surgery marathon that restored sight for some South Africans
1+ week, 1+ day ago (679+ words) Now that has changed. Khoza is one of 133 people whose sight was restored during a "marathon" of free cataract surgeries conducted by doctors in South Africa at two hospitals over two weekends last month. "Wow!" a delighted Khoza whispered as…...
First group of 12 deportees from the US arrives in Uganda, lawyers say
1+ week, 2+ day ago (369+ words) The deportees were "effectively dumped in Uganda through an undignified, harrowing and dehumanizing process," the law society said in a statement, adding that they arrived on a private charter flight. The deportations are part of U. S. President Donald Trump's crackdown on…...