- Cardinals set for second day of conclave to elect a new pope Reuters
- When does the 2025 conclave resume? Smoke times, full schedule for May 8 USA Today
- Norfolk Catholic schoolchildren on their hopes for the next pope BBC
- Cardinals are watching ‘Conclave’ the movie for guidance on the actual conclave politico.eu
- Black smoke signals end of first day of conclave Vatican News
Ukraine, Russia trade air attacks ahead of World War II anniversary – The Washington Post
Is Ivory Coast’s red card politics an own goal for democracy?
Why ex-bank boss Tidjane Thiam has been barred from seeking the Ivorian presidency - and the potential fallout.
Is Ivory Coast’s red card politics an own goal for democracy?
Why ex-bank boss Tidjane Thiam has been barred from seeking the Ivorian presidency - and the potential fallout.
See the scenes as the Germans surrendered in World War II – USA Today
- See the scenes as the Germans surrendered in World War II USA Today
- 80 years after VE Day a veteran says, 'I hope people will see the futility of it all' NPR
- This American soldier witnessed the Nazi surrender. 80 years later, he’s still happy to be home CNN
- V-E Day and the Founding of a New World Order – Mike Watson Law & Liberty
- This VE Day, the Celebrations Felt Hollow Bloomberg.com
The Indian Aircraft Pakistan Says It Shot Down – The New York Times
- The Indian Aircraft Pakistan Says It Shot Down The New York Times
- May 7, 2025 India launches attacks on Pakistan after Kashmir massacre CNN
- Pakistan Hails Role of Chinese Jets in Repelling India Strikes Bloomberg.com
- Three fighter jets crashed in India's Jammu and Kashmir, local govt sources say Reuters
- Pak minister schooled by CNN anchor for absurd 'social media' reply as proof of downing Indian jets Hindustan Times
Australia news live: Rudd criticises Trump’s proposed ‘tax on Bluey’; Faruqi refuses to concede Bandt will lose Melbourne
Australia’s ambassador to the US has taken aim at the proposal to put tariffs on screen productions. Follow today’s news live
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Ben Raue’s predictions for Menzies, Bullwinkel and Bradfield
Analyst Ben Raue also predicted that Labor’s Gabriel Ng lead by 1,145 votes in Menzies, Victoria, will “grow slightly”.
Continue reading...Columbia University calls in police to clear pro-Palestinian protesters
University’s president says activists refused to leave library despite warnings of disciplinary action and arrest
Columbia University asked the New York police department to help clear pro-Palestinian activists from the campus’s main library after protesters clashed with the school’s public safety officers.
Claire Shipman, the university’s acting president, said in a statement that protesters had refused to leave the building despite being warned that a failure to comply would result in disciplinary action and possibly arrest for trespassing.
Continue reading...‘This will be the work of years’: The medics identifying remains from Syria’s mass graves
More than 100,000 men, women and children were reportedly forcibly disappeared by Bashar al-Assad's regime.
‘This will be the work of years’: The medics identifying remains from Syria’s mass graves
Hundreds of thousands of Syrians were killed under the Assad regime before he was toppled from power.
Trump administration taps wellness influencer for surgeon general
Trump picks Dr Casey Means, a close ally Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr for role.
Pakistan vows retaliation after India launches air strikes
Pakistan's military says at least 31 civilians killed and 46 others wounded in India's attacks.
Pope Francis backed him when he took on a president. Now he’s voting in the conclave
"Not even in my wildest imagination did I think this would happen," Cardinal David tells the BBC.
Pope Francis backed him when he took on a president. Now he’s voting in the conclave
"Not even in my wildest imagination did I think this would happen," Cardinal David tells the BBC.
How Peter Dutton’s heartland lost him Australia’s election
It was the opposition leader's home state that delivered Labor its win, with the red wave taking out his own seat.
Iranians arrested in counter-terrorism raids allegedly targeted Israeli embassy
Home secretary says raids across UK last weekend reflected some of biggest terrorism threats in recent years
Israel’s embassy in London was the target of an alleged terror plot involving a group of Iranian nationals who were detained by police after a series of dramatic raids across England on Saturday, sources have told the Guardian.
Four men remain in custody and are being questioned by police on suspicion of preparation of a terrorist act targeting what police and politicians have so far only been willing to describe publicly as “specific premises”.
Continue reading...US pressuring humanitarian groups to get behind Israeli aid plan for Gaza – The Times of Israel
- US pressuring humanitarian groups to get behind Israeli aid plan for Gaza The Times of Israel
- Famine Haunts the People of Gaza. Israel Is Trying to Convince You It’s Fake. The Intercept
- 'Gaza is unlivable': One Palestinian man's struggle to feed his family as prices soar Haaretz
- WCK Forced to Halt Cooking in Gaza as Supplies Run Out World Central Kitchen
- Opinion | This Is the Moment of Moral Reckoning in Gaza The New York Times
Three children dead after suspicious fire in Toowoomba home
A nine-year-old boy is believed to have died in the fire while girls aged four and seven died later in hospital from critical burns
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Two young children have died in hospital after a ferocious fire at a family home, taking the death toll to three.
The house in suburban Harristown in Toowoomba, about 130km west of Brisbane in the Darling Downs region, went up in flames in the early hours of Wednesday.
Continue reading...Black smoke emerges as cardinals fail to elect new pope in first ballot
Tens of thousands of people gathered in Vatican City's St Peter's Square as cardinals voted in first ballot.
Brazil rejects US request to designate two gangs as terrorist organizations
Security minister says US delegation wanted classification for PCC and Comando Vermelho to aid immigration policy
The Brazilian government has rejected a request by the US state department to designate two major criminal gangs as terrorist organizations, according to Mario Sarrubo, Brazil’s national secretary of public security.
Sarrubo said the request was made on Tuesday during a meeting between US and Brazilian officials in Brasília.
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