Pope Francis had peaceful night, is resting after breathing crisis, Vatican says

U.S. Central Command released a statement after U.S. military forces — together with the United Kingdom and with support from Australia, Bahrain, Canada, and the Netherlands — conducted “multilateral coalition strikes” on Iranian-backed Houthi forces in Yemen. The attacks came after Houthi rebels have launched missiles and carried out attacks over several months on commercial […]

LONDON – Britain is facing a free speech crisis as the new left-wing government, overzealous police and courts crackdown on freedom of expression.  Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the leader of the ruling Labour Party, and his government of barely two months have been accused of rolling back free speech protections on safety grounds and failing […]

After nearly a decade, Nicaragua’s congress finally canceled on Wednesday a controversial canal concession granted to a Chinese businessman that critics said endangered the environment and threatened to displace rural communities. Despite a symbolic “groundbreaking” in 2014, no work was done on the canal that was to link Nicaragua’s Atlantic and Pacific coasts. At one […]