VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis ended his conference on the sexual abuse of children by clergy on Sunday by calling for an “all-out battle” against a crime that should be “erased from the face of the earth”. But victims and their advocates expressed deep disappointment, saying Francis had merely repeated old promises and offered few new concrete proposals. In […]

ABUJA (Reuters) – As many as 39 people have been killed in election violence in Nigeria, civil society groups said on Sunday, as the country awaited the results of voting in what was forecast to be its tightest election since the end of military rule in 1999. The Situation Room – which represents more than 70 civil society groups – […]

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s conservative government is on course for a heavy defeat at the coming election, a widely watched opinion poll showed on Monday, as Prime Minister Scott Morrison fails to woo voters with an aggressive national security pitch. A Newspoll for The Australian newspaper showed the opposition Labor Party retained a lead of 53 percent to 47 percent […]

HANOI (Reuters) – North Korea warned President Donald Trump on Sunday not to listen to U.S. critics who were disrupting efforts to improve ties, as its leader, Kim Jong Un, made his way across China by train to a second summit with Trump in Vietnam. The two leaders will meet in Hanoi on Wednesday and Thursday, eight months after their […]

Several members of the University of Mississippi basketball team took a knee as the national anthem was played at the start of Saturday’s game to protest a pro-Confederacy rally that took place near the arena. Minutes before the match-up against the University of Georgia started, both teams lined up on opposite sides of the court for “The Star-Spangled Banner,” but […]

ABUJA/MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Nigeria began counting votes in Saturday’s closely-fought presidential election although the electoral commission extended voting in some places where polling stations opened late or ballot machines malfunctioned. President Muhammadu Buhari and his main challenger, businessman Atiku Abubakar, both said they were confident of victory when casting their ballots in an election which was already delayed by […]

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) – A Salvadoran transgender woman who sought asylum in the United States was killed weeks after she was deported, a rights group said on Friday, underscoring the dangers of the Trump administration’s hardening policy on asylum seekers. El Salvador’s ASPIDH Rainbow Trans Association said Camila Diaz Cordova, a 29-year-old sex worker, applied for asylum in the United […]

Two women have been found dead after a house fire in Cape Breton. Police say the home on Villa Nova Drive in Dominion, N.S., was fully engulfed when officers arrived to assist the fire department at about 12:30 p.m. on Saturday. The women – aged 83 and 51 – were found dead inside. A man escaped without injury. Cape Breton […]

PACARAIMA, Brazil (Reuters) – Brazil on Sunday condemned violence used by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government this weekend to block aid shipments from crossing the border, branding it a “criminal act” and calling on the international community to join efforts to “liberate” the South American nation. Meanwhile, Brazilian Army Colonel George Feres Kanaan told Reuters on Sunday that two Venezuelan […]

Maybe it's the tapas or the paella, but Spain has just surpassed Italy to become the world's healthiest country. Tapas and sangria, anyone? The Spanish are doing something right on the healthy eating front.Credit:Alamy That's according to the 2019 edition of the Bloomberg Healthiest Country Index, which ranks 169 economies according to factors that contribute to overall health. Spain placed […]