Pope Leo XIV on Monday received Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado in the Vatican, without disclosing details of the meeting. Machado has been touring Europe. She reappeared publicly in December after spending 11 months in hiding to accept the Nobel Peace Prize in...
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Pope Leo XIV has called on senior Catholic leaders across the world to listen more closely to victims of clerical sexual abuse, warning that the Church continues to carry deep wounds caused not only by abuse itself but by the failure to hear and welcome survivors. Pope Leo XIV...
U.S. President Donald Trump has confirmed plans to meet Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado, who is expected to visit Washington next week. Speaking during an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday, Trump said Machado’s trip would provide an opportunity for...
United States (U.S) President, Donald Trump, has ordered the country’s withdrawal from 66 international organisations, citing concerns over cost, efficiency and what his administration describes as actions contrary to American interests. The decision was confirmed in a press statement issued on Wednesday by U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio,...
United States (US) immigration authorities have detained Ghana’s former finance minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, who is wanted in his home country over alleged corruption, according to his legal team. Ofori-Atta, 66, has been in the United States since January last year for medical reasons, including surgery related to prostate cancer....
Burkina Faso’s military-led government has announced that it successfully thwarted what it described as a highly sophisticated coup plot aimed at assassinating the country’s leader, Captain Ibrahim Traoré. The disclosure was made by the Minister of Security, Mahamadou Sana, during a nationwide television broadcast, where he said intelligence and...
The UN Security Council remained sharply divided on Monday during an emergency session over the U.S. capture of Venezuela’s President, Nicolás Maduro, in a weekend military operation. The emergency meeting followed Washington’s removal of Maduro from Caracas, an action that has unsettled governments across Latin America and drawn global...
Venezuela, Russia, China, and the Uk have urged the United States to release Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores. Following the U.S. attack on the South American country over the weekend, the UN ambassadors of Venezuela, Russia and China as well as UK lawmakers criticised what...
Venezuelan police have launched a search for collaborators following the arrest of authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro by U.S. special forces, according to a decree declaring a state of emergency. The decree, which came into force on Saturday but was made public in full on Monday, said all police units...
Venezuela’s Supreme Court has named Vice President Delcy Rodríguez as the country’s interim president following the reported arrest of President Nicolás Maduro by the United States, a development that has plunged the South American nation into a fresh political crisis. In its ruling, the court said Rodríguez would “assume...
U.S. President Donald Trump has issued a sharp warning to Colombian President Gustavo Petro, escalating tensions in the region following reports of an American military operation in Venezuela. Trump’s threat came amid claims that U.S. forces entered Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro and his wife. In a video...
President Donald Trump on Saturday claimed that United States forces had captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro following what he described as a “large-scale strike” against the South American nation. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump announced that the operation resulted in Maduro and his wife being...
Self-acclaimed Ghanaian prophet, Ebo Noah, popularly known as Evans Eshun, has reportedly been taken into custody by operatives of the Ghana Police Service following controversy surrounding his failed end-time prophecy. Information circulating widely on social media suggests that the arrest took place on New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2025....
US Congressman Riley Moore has said that the United States (US) President Donald Trump is committed to ending the targeting and killing of Christians in Nigeria. Moore, a member of the United States House of Representatives, explained that recent US air strikes against terrorist strongholds in Nigeria were conducted...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that he plans to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump in Florida this weekend. The Ukrainian newspaper Kyiv Post and US news portal Axios both cited Ukrainian sources, saying that Zelensky would likely meet Trump on Sunday at his Mar-a-Lago residence in...
U.S. President Donald Trump has made it clear that Washington is in no rush to follow Israel’s lead in recognising Somaliland as an independent state, stressing that the issue remains under review. Trump disclosed this during a telephone interview with the New York Post on Friday, hours after Israel...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has issued a strong call for an immediate halt to attacks on Christians in Nigeria, urging global leaders to confront what he described as unacceptable religious persecution. Netanyahu made the remarks in a Christmas message shared on his official X handle, where he addressed...
United States (US) President, Donald J. Trump, has announced that the United States military carried out airstrikes against ISIS-affiliated terrorists operating in northwest Nigeria, describing the operation as a decisive blow against violent extremism in the region. In a statement posted late on Sunday via his Truth Social account,...
Elon Musk has scored a major legal win after Delaware’s Supreme Court overturned earlier rulings that blocked his controversial $56 billion Tesla compensation package, effectively reopening the door for the electric vehicle maker’s chief executive to claim one of the biggest pay awards in corporate history. In its decision...