Pope Francis’ last public appearance on Easter Sunday
The pontiff's last public appearance was for an Easter Sunday blessing at the Vatican's St Peter's Square.
Pope Francis through the years: A life in pictures
Born in Argentina, Francis was the only Latin American pontiff and first non-European pope in more than 1,000 years.
China warns countries not to strike trade deals with US at its expense
China's Ministry of Commerce says appeasing the Trump administration 'cannot bring peace'.
Russia resumes fighting after ‘ceasefire’ Ukraine says Moscow breached nearly 3,000 times – as it happened
Russian military confirms ‘Easter truce’ is over and fighting has begun again as Ukrainian says Moscow launched 96 drones and three missiles overnight. This live blog is closed
When Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine three years ago, he demanded that Ukraine renounce joining Nato, sharply cut its army, and “protect” Russian language and culture to keep the country in Moscow’s orbit.
Now, he also demands that Kyiv withdraw its forces from the four regions Moscow illegally annexed in September 2022 but never fully occupied — Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson.
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Dubbed ‘the people's pope’, first Latin American pontiff will be remembered for his defence of 'the most vulnerable'.
Russia resumes strikes on Ukraine as Easter ceasefire ends
Swift return to major hostilities and violations of truce appear to bode ill for efforts to secure long-term ceasefire.
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- Ukraine says Russia launched deadly aerial barrage as pressure grows on Kyiv to respond to US peace proposal CNN
- Kyiv and Moscow accuse each other of countless violations of one-day Easter ceasefire Reuters
Indigenous river campaigner from Peru wins prestigious Goldman prize
Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari led a successful legal battle to protect the Marañon River in the Peruvian Amazon
An Indigenous campaigner and women’s leader from the Peruvian Amazon has been awarded the prestigious Goldman prize for environmental activists, after leading a successful legal campaign that led to the river where her people, the Kukama, live being granted legal personhood.
Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari, 57, from the village of Shapajila on the Marañon River, led the Huaynakana Kamatahuara Kana (HKK) women’s association, supported by lawyers from Peru’s Legal Defence Institute, in a campaign to protect the river. After three years, judges in Loreto, Peru’s largest Amazon region, ruled in March 2024 that the Marañon had the right to be free-flowing and free of contamination, respecting an Indigenous worldview that regards a river as a living entity.
Continue reading...Grassroots activists who took on corruption and corporate power share 2025 Goldman prize
Seven winners of environmental prize include Amazonian river campaigner and Tunisian who fought against organised waste trafficking
Grassroots activists who helped jail corrupt officials and obtain personhood rights for a sacred Amazonian river are among this year’s winners of the world’s most prestigious environmental prize.
The community campaigns led by the seven 2025 Goldman prize winners underscore the courage and tenacity of local activists willing to confront the toxic mix of corporate power, regulatory failures and political corruption that is fuelling biodiversity collapse, water shortages, deadly air pollution and the climate emergency.
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The private messaging group included the US defence secretary's wife, brother and personal lawyer, sources tell US media.
‘Professional failures’ led to killing of Gaza medics, IDF inquiry says
Fourteen emergency workers and a UN worker were killed when the Israeli military opened fire on a convoy of vehicles in Gaza last month.
Vance in Delhi to meet Modi amid tariff tensions
The talks are likely to focus on fast-tracking a trade deal, earlier expected to conclude by the end of 2025.
Nepali-speaking Bhutanese refugees in limbo after deportation from US
Human rights experts voice alarm as refugees expelled by the US, not welcomed by Bhutan and rejected by Nepal
When Narayan Kumar Subedi received a call from his daughter in the United States three weeks ago, he expected to hear news of his two children’s life abroad, perhaps even plans for a long-awaited reunion. Instead, he was told his 36-year-old son Ashish, a Bhutanese refugee resettled in the US, was being deported.
Ashish had been caught in a domestic dispute that led to police involvement. After several days in detention without proper legal support, he was caught up in Donald Trump’s migration crackdown and deported to Bhutan.
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China warns nations against ‘appeasing’ US in trade deals
Beijing was responding to reports that the US will pressure other nations to restrict trade with China.
Pope Francis emerges from convalescence on Easter, delights crowd with popemobile tour – AP News
- Pope Francis emerges from convalescence on Easter, delights crowd with popemobile tour AP News
- Pope wishes ‘Happy Easter’ to delighted crowds at Vatican after briefly meeting Vance CNN
- Vance meets Pope Francis on Easter Sunday after tangle over migration and deportations PBS
- Pope Francis Blesses Faithful at Easter Mass The New York Times
- Pope at Urbi et Orbi prays for an end to all violence, from Gaza to the Sahel Vatican News
Air raid alerts in Ukraine after Putin’s Easter ‘ceasefire’ ends
Regions in eastern Ukraine were under air raid alerts starting minutes after midnight on Monday, with the alerts gradually extending west
Ukraine issued air raid alerts for Kyiv and the country’s eastern half as blasts shook the city of Mykolaiv early on Monday, authorities said, hours after the one-day Easter “ceasefire” declared by Vladimir Putin came to an end.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed the Russian president’s unilateral Easter ceasefire declaration as a fake “PR” exercise and said Russian troops had continued their drone and artillery attacks across many parts of the frontline on Sunday.
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Coalition promises crackdown on ‘drugs and thugs’ as polls continue to favour Labor
Opposition expected to use final two weeks of the campaign to focus on the traditionally safe grounds of national security, crime and defence
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The Coalition would crack down on “drugs and thugs” with a new policy pledge including tougher narcotics laws and a new disclosure scheme to help parents “unmask” sex offenders who may be in contact with their children.
Peter Dutton said an elected Coalition government would spend $750m on its so-called Operation Safer Communities plan, to include tightened border security and safety laws, extra funding for police and investigators, and detection of illicit drugs.
Continue reading...Some British MPs spending equivalent of a day a week doing second jobs
Guardian analysis finds seven MPs have worked at least 300 hours since July in outside employment
A total of seven MPs have spent on average one working day a week on second jobs since the start of the 2024 parliament, with additional gigs as TV presenters, lawyers and consultants.
A Guardian analysis of self-declared working hours found the seven had worked at least 300 hours since July – the equivalent of eight hours a week, in outside employment averaged across the parliament – totalling more than 3,000 hours between them. A further seven MPs had worked at least five hours a week on a second job.
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