Pope Leo XIV left Rome’s Gemelli Hospital on Saturday, four days after undergoing surgery to remove a malignant lung tumour, returning to the Vatican three days earlier than initially expected. The pontiff
Sanae Takaichi is on track to make history as Japan’s first female prime minister after being elected leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Saturday. The victory positions her to
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Last year, as Nato prepared to mark its 75th anniversary, the alliance’s defence college in Rome published an anthology of science fiction imagining its future in 2099, including scenarios of rogue artificial
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Pakistan has floated an ambitious proposal to the United States to build and operate a port on the Arabian Sea at Pasni, a seaside town just 70 miles from Gwadar and 100
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Dame Sarah Mullally, the current Bishop of London, has been named the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury, becoming the first woman to hold the Church of England’s most senior clerical office. King Charles
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The Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov came out of a meeting in New York in the weekend with the US S secretary of State Marco Rubio showing a thumbs-up sign as he
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A high-stakes rivalry is quietly unfolding beneath the world’s oceans, where vast networks of subsea cables carry nearly all global internet traffic, linking billions of people, trillions in financial transactions, and critical
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Mikhail Kovalchuk, head of Russia’s Kurchatov nuclear research institute and a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, told a forum of schoolteachers in Moscow that Western nations are plotting to exterminate the
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Jane Goodall, the British primatologist celebrated for her groundbreaking work with chimpanzees, passed away on Wednesday, 1 October, at the age of 91 while on a speaking tour in California. According to
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China and Sri Lanka first became connected through Buddhism and later through the Maritime Silk Road. The friendship between the two peoples has transcended time and continues today. For decades, many residents
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The Chinese Embassy in the Maldives hosted a grand reception on September 30 to celebrate the 76th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China and the Mid-Autumn Festival. The
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The Trump administration will move ahead with the AUKUS defense pact linking the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, maintaining the original timeline that includes the sale of three Virginia-class submarines
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Italy’s centre-left opposition is confronting internal uncertainty as Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni continues to dominate the political landscape, The Times reports. Opposition leader Elly Schlein, who took over the Democratic Party in
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Colombian President Gustavo Petro has announced the expulsion of all remaining Israeli diplomats following the interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla by the Israeli Navy, his office confirmed Wednesday. Two Colombian nationals were
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In 2010, long before Tony Blair returned to the centre of Middle East diplomacy, he attended the christening of Rupert and Wendi Deng Murdoch’s daughters in New York. Few noticed the quiet
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Taiwan has rejected a U.S. proposal to move half of America’s semiconductor production to domestic soil, highlighting persistent tensions in trade discussions between the two sides. Vice Premier Cheng Li-chiun said Wednesday
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