The death of a pope usually sets in motion time-honoured traditions, but with ex-pontiff Benedict XVI in failing health the Vatican is on unfamiliar ground.. Under rules set out in 1996, a pope must be buried between four and six days after his death.
A Turkish court Thursday refused to release a top doctor who faces years in jail for demanding a probe into the army's alleged use of chemical weapons against Kurdish fighters in Iraq.. The militia said 17 of its fighters had died in Turkish chemical weapons attacks in the mountains and caves of northern Iraq.
Armed raids in a region of South Sudan plagued by ethnic clashes have forced around 30,000 civilians to flee their homes, the UN's emergency response agency said Thursday as international partners demanded an end to the violence.. International partners including the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and the regional IGAD bloc, said in a joint statement Thursday that they were "gravely concerned" by the escalating violence.
The roadblock near the main border crossing between Kosovo and Serbia was removed Thursday, state-run TV said, announcing a move that paves the way to easing of tensions in the volatile region.. "Barricades will be removed, but the mistrust remains," Vucic was quoted as saying by the state-run RTS television late Wednesday during his meeting with Kosovo Serb representatives near the border.
G7 foreign ministers on Thursday called on the Taliban to "urgently reverse" a ban on women working in Afghanistan’s aid sector.. "We call on the Taliban to urgently reverse this decision," they said in the statement issued by Britain’s foreign ministry.
President Yoon Suk-yeol said Thursday that South Korea must boost its preparedness to respond to airspace intrusions after the military failed to shoot down five North Korean drones that crossed the border.. Seoul’s military staged drills Thursday, including responding to small drones, that its Joint Chiefs of Staff said would improve its defences against any future North Korean drone provocations.
A fresh barrage of Russian strikes battered Ukraine on Thursday, wounding at least three people including a teenager in Kyiv and cutting electricity in the west.. - Three people wounded in Kyiv - Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said that at least three people were in wounded in the strikes, including a 14-year-old girl.
The world is getting warmer, winters included.. The collision between cold air from the north with the warmer water of these lakes causes convection, which leads to snowfall.
Twitter users around the world reported errors accessing it for several hours, web monitors said Wednesday, in one of the biggest outages since Elon Musk bought the platform.. Web monitor NetBlocks said the outages were international and "not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering".
As many as 10 people have died in a fire at a Cambodian hotel-casino on the border of Thailand, with photos showing groups desperately huddled on ledges as fierce flames surround them.. In another, a group of people huddles on a ledge as flames near them.
