Pope Francis appeared to ask Russians to seek the truth about their country’s invasion of Ukraine in his Easter message to the world on Sunday and appealed for dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians following recent violence.
Ramadan prayers and Jewish Passover visits at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound passed without incident on Sunday, after days of tension at the flashpoint Jerusalem site which led to cross-border exchanges of fire.
As China sends warships and fighter jets to the Taiwan Strait after a U.S. visit by Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, deemed a separatist by Beijing, fishing crews plying the narrow waterway say they fret more about their livelihood than politics.
Army Sgt. Daniel Perry, who Friday was found guilty of murdering a Black Lives Matter activist in 2020, is unlikely to spend much time in prison.
Democratic U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal fractured his leg in a mishap at a University of Connecticut parade on Saturday and will undergo surgery this weekend, he said on Twitter.
President Joe Biden and embattled Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas are banking that the best way to solve the chaos at the southern border is to speed up processing so that migrants can either be granted entry or forced to leave within 72 hours.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will meet Joe Biden in Northern Ireland next week when the U.S. president flies in to take part in events to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday peace accord.
Twitter owner Elon Musk’s views on what constitutes honest-to-goodness journalism have, if nothing else, proven he’s an equal-opportunity offender.
Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials in Germany that brought Nazi war criminals to justice after World War Two and a longtime apostle of international criminal law, died on Friday at age 103, NBC News reported, citing his son.
