Huge crowds protested Saturday against US President Donald Trump’s actions and the war in Iran in “No Kings” rallies across the US and in Europe. Minnesota took centre stage, with thousands of people standing shoulder-to-shoulder to celebrate resistan…
Russian court bans Oscar and BAFTA-winning documentary ‘Mr Nobody Against Putin’
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Israeli police bar top Catholic figure in Jerusalem from holding Palm Sunday mass at Holy Sepulchre
Israeli police prevented the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to celebrate Palm Sunday mass, according to the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem. It is not yet clear whether this blockade was intentional or a mi…
Report: severe divisions emerge in Iran leadership as war strains economy
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Israeli police block Catholic cardinal from Jerusalem’s Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni criticised the police action, saying that denying entry to religious leaders “constitutes an offence not only to believers, but for every community that recognises religious freedom.”
Mrs la maire – Maureen Searle becomes the first foreign-born woman to run a French town
In the last 2026 mayoral elections, for the first time a British-born woman, who acquired the French nationality after living in France for years, became the mayor of a French town. Maureen Searle speaks to Gavin Lee about her life and experience in F…
Lebanon mourns three journalists killed in Israeli strikes
Hundreds of mourners gathered at a cemetery south of Beirut on Sunday to attend the funeral of journalists Ali Shoeib, Fatima Ftouni, and Mohammed Ftouni, who were killed in an Israeli strike a day earlier. Israel has acknowledged carrying out the att…
Iran Accuses US Of “Secretly” Plotting Ground Attack Despite Diplomatic Talk
The speaker of Iran’s parliament accused the United States on Sunday of plotting a ground attack despite publicly pushing for a negotiated deal, after a US warship with around 3,500 military personnel arrived in the Middle East.
The maritime passages with a chokehold on the global economy
The war in the Middle East has put the Strait of Hormuz in the spotlight. It is one of the world’s maritime “choke points” – narrow passages on which global trade depends, putting them at the centre of geopolitical tensions.
Jack White blasts ‘egomaniacal conman’ Trump’s decision to include his own signature on dollar bills
The former White Stripes frontman has become an increasingly outspoken critic of the president