Temple stampede in India’s Andhra Pradesh kills at least 9
Authorities pledge disciplinary action, saying the privately-run temple had not secured official approvals.
Acknowledgment shows shift in tone after six years of diplomatic spats over colonial-era abuses
Spain has acknowledged and expressed regret over the “pain and injustice” suffered by the Indigenous people of Mexico during its conquest of the Americas, heralding a shift in tone after six years of diplomatic spats over the abuses of the colonial period.
In March 2019, Mexico’s then president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador wrote to King Felipe VI and Pope Francis, who was then the leader of the world’s Roman Catholics, urging them to apologise for the “massacres and oppression” of colonialism and the conquest.
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