At least 235 people were killed and scores more injured when gunmen stormed a mosque in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, setting off explosives and firing on worshipers during Friday prayers, authorities said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the assault in the town of Bir Abd, about 25 milesContinue Reading
Rome :The Chinese Communist Party has ordered travel agencies not to send tour groups to visit the Vatican and St. Peter’s Basilica because “there are no diplomatic relations” between China and the Holy See. In an article published by Radio Free Asia yesterday several agencies that confirm that they haveContinue Reading
Body was recovered in Oman damContinue Reading
A list of statues and monuments that should be immediately withdrawn from Skopje’s city center is in the hands of Culture Minister of fYROMacedonia, Robert Alagjozovski, with the final decisions to be taken by prime minister Zoran Zaev. The list was put together by a working group of the ministryContinue Reading
Myanmar and Bangladesh have signed an agreement to potentially repatriate hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees who have fled the country, a Burmese official has said. “We are ready to take them back as soon as possible after Bangladesh sends the forms back to us,” said Myint Kyaing, a permanentContinue Reading
Kannur: In a first, a woman has been inducted as a pilot in the Indian Navy. Shubhangi Swaroop, who hails from Uttar Pradesh, will soon be flying Maritime Reconnaissance aircraft. Three other women cadets, Astha Segal from New Delhi, Roopa A from Puducherry and Sakthi Maya S from Kerala, alsoContinue Reading
From the courtyard of a Catholic girls’ school outside Bangkok, Sister Ana Rosa Sivori is eagerly awaiting a visit to the region from her second cousin — Pope Francis. Six years his junior, the sprightly 75-year-old nun has watched from abroad as her cousin transforms from the “shy” kid sheContinue Reading
Vatican City: Pope Francis visits Myanmar next week, a delicate trip for the world’s most senior Christian to a majority Buddhist country accused by Washington of the “ethnic cleansing” of Muslim Rohingya people. He will also visit Bangladesh to where more than 600,000 people have fled from what Amnesty InternationalContinue Reading
Kawkareik: Father William’s 16- strong flock on Myanmar’s eastern border is one of the Catholic Church’s tiniest outposts, but next week they will join a tide of 200,000 faithful in Yangon for a historic mass led by Pope Francis. The Pope, renowned for powerful entreaties for peace no matter howContinue Reading
The United Nations’ Yugoslav war crimes tribunal on Wednesday convicted Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic of genocide and crimes against humanity, and sentenced him to life in prison for the atrocities during Bosnia’s 1992-1995 war. Mladic, 75, was found guilty of commanding forces responsible for crimes, including the worstContinue Reading