BARCELONA, June 10 (Reuters) – Pope Leo, who has forcefully advocated for the rights of prisoners, visited one of Spain’s largest prisons on Wednesday, urging the inmates to make amends for their crimes and commit to living better lives. Speaking to detainees at a penitentiary outside Barcelona, in the first visit of a pope to …
By Brenda Goh and Liz Lee SEOUL/BEIJING, June 10 (Reuters) – North Korea and China both walked away claiming major wins from Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit this week to the isolated state, which helped elevate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s global stature and pulled Pyongyang more tightly into China’s orbit. The two countries each …
TAICHUNG, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan’s military fired rockets in China’s direction from “shoot-and-scoot” mobile launchers on Wednesday in a demonstration of how it might try to repel a Chinese attack. While the U.S.-supplied system known as HIMARS has been tested before, the latest live-fire exercise was the first time its rockets were fired into the …
MOSCOW, June 10 (Reuters) – Russia’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday that cooperation with Syria was developing very actively and that Moscow was discussing with Damascus a “possible reformatting” of its military facilities in Syria. The December 2024 ousting of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a close Russian ally, raised questions about the future of Russia’s …
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A World Cup referee from Somalia who was denied entry to the United States was received by a crowd of supporters and officials Wednesday as he arrived in Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu, where he said he plans to be at the next World Cup and urged Somali youths to be proud …
By Amanda Ferguson and Will Russell BELFAST, June 10 (Reuters) – Masked men burned families out of their homes in Belfast and torched a number of vehicles in a wave of anti-immigrant violence on Tuesday night that followed a knife attack by a Sudanese man. Hundreds of protesters, many with their faces covered, attacked police …
NEW DELHI, June 10 (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to hold bilateral talks with U.S. President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the Group of 7 summit, with trade, visas and energy cooperation set to be high on the agenda, an Indian government source said. The June 15 to 17 summit, …
By Ayose Naranjo and Norlys Perez HAVANA, June 10 (Reuters) – When Sagrado Armando Garcia, an 85-year-old former government bureaucrat, collapsed in his home, his son couldn’t get him to the hospital because he didn’t have fuel for the family car, he said. At other times recently, there have been moments when Garcia felt so …
ISLAMABAD, June 10 (Reuters) – Pakistan’s military struck militant hideouts along the Afghan border, killing at least 26 militants, Pakistan’s Information Minister Ataullah Tarar said on Wednesday. Taliban authorities in Kabul earlier said the strikes in three provinces had killed 13 civilians, including 11 children. (Reporting by Saad Saeed, writing by Shilpa Jamkhandikar; Editing by …
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — A 30-year-old man from Sudan is due in a Belfast court on an attempted murder charge over a vicious stabbing attack that left a victim seriously injured and triggered anti-immigrant violence in several parts of Northern Ireland. Masked men set several homes they believed to house immigrants on fire, burned …