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China expresses ‘strong dissatisfaction’ with G7 communique
China on Saturday expressed “strong dissatisfaction” with a communique issued by G7 leaders that took aim at Beijing on issues including the South China Sea, human rights and alleged interference in their democracies.
Leaders from the…
Italy’s Meloni to leave Japan G7 a day early to tackle floods crisis at home
Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is set to leave the Group of Seven (G7) summit in Hiroshima a day earlier than scheduled to lead the response to flooding which hit the north of her country this week, two sources said on Saturday.…
More than half of the world’s largest lakes are drying up
More than half of the world’s largest lakes shrank over the last three decades, researchers report in the May 19 Science.
That’s a big problem for the people who depend on those lakes for drinking water and irrigation. Drying lakes also…
Gendarmes fire as car rushes Vatican gate; mentally unstable driver arrested
A car driven by someone with apparent psychiatric problems rushed through a Vatican gate Thursday evening and sped past Swiss Guards into a palace courtyard before the driver was apprehended by police, the Holy See said.
Vatican…
US condemns Israeli extremists’ ‘hateful chants’ against Arabs
The United States on Thursday condemned Israeli demonstrators’ “racist” chants against Arabs, with AFP reporters saying that many of the marchers had shouted anti-Arab slogans.
“The United States unequivocally opposes racist language of…
Joe Biden to consult with Japan’s Kishida ahead of G7 summit
President Joe Biden arrived in Japan Thursday with plans to meet privately with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida ahead of the larger Group of Seven summit — a sign of how the economic and national security alliance between the two…
Chinese envoy asks Australia to increase search for 39 aboard capsized fishing boat in Indian Ocean
A Chinese envoy asked Australian authorities Thursday to increase efforts to find survivors in an Indian Ocean search for 39 crew members missing from a capsized Chinese fishing boat.
Ambassador to Australia Xiao Qian said the Australian…
Four children found alive in Amazon after plane crash
Four Indigenous children missing for more than two weeks after a plane crash in the Colombian Amazon have been found alive, President Gustavo Petro said Wednesday, declaring “joy for the country.”
Petro shared the news on Twitter, saying…
Defense pleads for Islamic scholar’s acquittal at Swiss rape trial
Tariq Ramadan’s lawyers pleaded Wednesday for the controversial Islamic scholar to be acquitted on the third and final day of his trial in Geneva on charges of rape and sexual coercion.
Prosecutors are seeking a three-year sentence for…
Millions of children in Turkiye, Syria require aid 100 days after the earthquake: UNICEF
More than 6 million children in Turkiye and Syria remain in need of humanitarian aid 100 days after the devastating February earthquakes, the UN International Children’s Emergency Fund warned on Wednesday.
The earthquake and aftershocks…