New Vatican law criminalizes abuse of adults, even by laity
VATICAN City – Pope Francis changed church law to explicitly criminalize the sexual abuse of adults by priests who abuse their authority and to...
Pakistan TV host taken off air after army comments
ISLAMABAD – International rights groups have condemned the suspension of a prominent Pakistani journalist and talk show host from his regular television program.
Hamid Mir...
WHO renames COVID-19 variants with Greek letters
GENEVA – The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced a new naming system for variants of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
From now on the WHO...
China to send 3 astronauts to its space station in June
BEIJING – A three-man crew of astronauts will blast off in June for a three-month mission on China’s new space station.
The plans for the...
Students abducted by gunmen in Nigeria
LAGOS – A large number of students were abducted Sunday and one person was killed at a school in Nigeria’s Niger State, a police...
New ‘hybrid’ COVID variant detected in Vietnam
HANOI – Vietnam has detected a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) variant that appears to be a combination of the Indian and the United Kingdom...
Remains of 215 children found at Canadian school
OTTAWA – A mass grave containing the remains of 215 children has been found in Canada at a former residential school set up to...
Qatar sees no reason for normalizing ties with Syria
DOHA – Qatar has no plans to normalize ties with Syria, the Gulf state's foreign minister said, after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad won a...
Mali’s military releases transitional prexy, PM
BAMAKO – Mali’s military has released the transitional president and prime minister (PM) from detention, a top officer said Thursday.
The release of President Bah...
US, HK climbers set new records on Mount Everest
KATHMANDU – Climbers from the United States and Hong Kong have set new records as they scaled Mount Everest this week, hiking officials said...