Pope Francis stated on Sunday that he was following “attentively” to the “often complex” lives of Catholics in China, without mentioning a 90-year-old cardinal who was imprisoned in Hong Kong earlier this month. “I attentively and actively follow the often complex life and the matters of the faithful and pastors, and I pray every day for … Read more
On Sunday, President Emmanuel Macron’s newly designated minister for solidarity and people with disabilities refuted charges of rap* made by an investigative website over a decade ago. Damien Abad, a right-wing heavyweight, was a political coup for the centrist Macron in a cabinet shuffle announced on Friday to prepare for parliament elections next month. The next day, the … Read more
As he hurried to form a government in time for a major Tokyo meeting, incoming Prime Minister Anthony Albanese promised to remove Australia’s status as a climate laggard and reset relations with the rest of the world. Fresh from an electoral victory that ended a decade of conservative rule, Albanese signaled an era of fairer, … Read more
WhatsApp Web is a useful application for using WhatsApp on a computer. The Web version of WhatsApp allows you to access most of the instant messaging platform’s capabilities on a larger screen even if your smartphone is not nearby. Certain keyboard shortcuts make it easier to navigate the platform. These shortcuts are especially useful if … Read more
The Pixel Watch, as you may be aware, is on its way. Long a fiction of tech fanatics’ minds, it’s finally occurring this year – Google acknowledged it, clearly unable to keep it a secret despite the fact that the launch is only scheduled for “this fall,” which most likely translates to October. So, we’ve … Read more
According to Telecompaper, Samsung and Apple have been hit with fresh fines for not including power bricks with their devices (highlighted by SamMobile). Starting with the iPhone 12, Apple began the trend of removing charging bricks from its devices, and Samsung was the first business to follow suit. With the Galaxy S21 series, it stopped … Read more
Boris Johnson, the British Prime Minister, congratulated Anthony Albanese on his election as Australia’s new leader on Saturday, promising to cooperate on trade, military connections, and climate change. “Our countries have a long history and a bright future together,” Johnson said in a message to the Labor party leader, according to Downing Street. Johnson shares … Read more
The US Commerce Department stated Saturday that the US and South Korea have agreed to collaborate more closely on critical trade and supply-chain concerns. Establishing a US-Korea Supply Chain and Commercial Dialogue, the statement said, would “foster increased collaboration and strengthen the international competitiveness of US and Korean industry.” The announcement, which offered little detail … Read more
On Saturday, Israel became the latest European and North American country to report a case of monkeypox, a disease common to areas of Africa. A spokesman for Tel Aviv’s Ichilov hospital told AFP that a 30-year-old man, who recently returned from western Europe with monkeypox symptoms, had tested positive for the virus. On Friday, the … Read more
Police claimed Saturday that an irate mob went on the rampage in Bauchi, northern Nigeria, over alleged blasphemy by a Christian resident, the third such incident in days in the largely Muslim portion of the country. Blasphemy is highly sensitive in Africa’s most populous country, which is almost equally divided between the mostly Christian south … Read more
Thousands of supporters of former Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito gathered in the Croatian village where he was born on Saturday to commemorate the 130th anniversary of his birth. Admirers of the late communist leader gathered in front of the house where he was born in 1892, now a museum in Kumrovec, northern Croatia They … Read more
President Volodymyr Zelensky stated Saturday that Ukraine should become a full candidate for EU membership rather than joining a bigger “European political community” antechamber proposed by France. “We don’t need any alternatives to the application of Ukraine to join the European Union, we don’t need such compromises,” Zelensky told reporters in Kyiv during a joint press conference … Read more
According to state media, Israeli surface-to-surface missiles killed three civilians near Damascus on Friday, citing a military source. “The Israeli enemy carried out an aggression… that led to the death of three martyrs and some material losses,” Syria’s official news agency SANA quoted the source as saying. The missiles came from the Israeli-occupied Golan heights … Read more
In the universe of Tucker Carlson’s successful TV show, America is under siege from Democrats, health officials, immigrants, and Black Lives Matter protesters, and white conservatives are fighting for their lives. Anti-white racism is on the rise. Modern liberals hate Christianity. Migrants are invading. These are just a few of the claims made by the … Read more
In the midst of an impasse in discussions between Kyiv and Moscow, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared Saturday that only “diplomacy” can end the Ukraine conflict. “The end will be through diplomacy,” he told a Ukrainian television channel. The war “will be bloody, there will be fighting but will only definitively end through diplomacy”. “Discussions … Read more
Odessa Mayor Gennady Trukhanov, formerly branded a Kremlin sympathiser, prefers to organize his thoughts before expressing his sentiments about Russia and President Vladimir Putin. “The Russians are on our soil today and they are bombing our cities, killing our people and our soldiers. Our people are dying,” the mayor of the southern Ukrainian port city … Read more
President Joe Biden of the United States and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol of South Korea both signalled an increased military presence in response to North Korea’s “threat,” while also pledging to assist the isolated state in the face of a Covid-19 outbreak. After meeting in Seoul on Biden’s first trip to Asia as president, … Read more
As Moscow stopped gas supplies to Finland, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky cautioned that only a political breakthrough, not an overwhelming military victory, could end Russia’s war on his nation. “There are things that can only be reached at the negotiating table,” Zelensky said, just as Russia claimed its long-range missiles had destroyed a shipment of … Read more
