French President Emmanuel Macron said he welcomed the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and the Lebanon ceasefire.
Macron, Meloni, Starmer and Merz welcome Hormuz Strait reopening
French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday hosted a video conference with their European allies to discuss the possible deployment of a multinational force to the Strait of Hormuz once the war in Iran is over. M…
Pope Leo XIV leads massive mass in Douala
More than 120,000 people filled the Japoma Stadium in Cameroon’s largest city Douala on Friday to attend Pope Leo XIV’s Mass. The pontiff called on the Catholic faithful to reject violence despite the “material and spiritual poverty” afflicting many i…
Colombia’s environment minister says Middle East crisis should speed energy transition
Ahead of talks among some 50 countries about moving away from polluting fuels like oil and gas, Colombia’s environment minister is arguing that the war in Iran underscores the need for a fast transition to clean energies like solar, wind and geothermal.
Influencer stabbed to death after sharing final heartbreaking video as boyfriend claims he was ‘forced to kill her’
A WOMAN has been stabbed to death after posting a devastating final video online before her boyfriend claimed he was “forced to kill her”. Katerin Mejía Argueta, 20, known by her social media handle as Katy Mazorca, was discovered dead on Thursday in a…
Oil prices drop sharply and global markets surge as Strait of Hormuz reopened
Brent crude fell more than 10% to just under 89 US dollars a barrel in afternoon trading as Iranian authorities said the strait has fully reopened.
Is Mandelson vetting scandal the final straw for Starmer? – The Latest
Keir Starmer says it is ‘staggering’ and ‘unforgivable’ that he was not told Peter Mandelson had failed security vetting before taking up the role of US ambassador. The comments follow a Guardian investigation that exclusively revealed Mandelson had in…
Nearly half of young Americans can’t name a single Holocaust concentration or death camp
Many people attributed the rise in antisemitic activity to a lack of education about the Nazi period
1.2 million people uprooted by war
More than a million civilians in Lebanon have been displaced since the war in the Middle East erupted at the end of February. Among them are thousands of young mothers and pregnant women, many forced to give birth in makeshift camps or other inadequat…
The Paris movement that planted the seeds of Algerian independence, a century on
In 1926, migrant workers in Paris formed a small political group named North African Star, the first movement to call for Algerian independence and freedom from French rule – decades before decolonisation became a reality.