British counter-terrorism police were Sunday probing “a major” incident near a base used by the US air force after arresting five men on suspicion of “preparing a terrorist act”, police said. Armed officers detained the group in the early hours after a call to emergency services about three “suspicious vehicles which appeared to be travelling […]
Read MoreRund 3,8 Millionen Menschen haben das Oktoberfest in München zur Halbzeit besucht. Das schätzte die Festleitung laut eigenen Angaben am Sonntag nach den ersten acht Tagen des Fests in der bayerischen Landeshauptstadt. Damit lag die Zahl etwas höher als im Vorjahr, als es nach der Hälfte der Wiesn etwa 3,5 Millionen Besucher waren. Zugleich sank […]
Read MorePapst Leo XIV. hat die in Frankreich vor kurzem legalisierte Sterbehilfe scharf kritisiert. “Es ist unmöglich, das Herbeiführen des Todes als normal anzusehen”, sagte der Papst am Sonntag bei einer Begegnung mit kranken und behinderten Menschen im Pilgerort Lourdes. “Nicht alles, was legal ist, ist auch moralisch vertretbar”, fügte er hinzu. Die Medizin dürfe sich […]
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Swiss voters on Sunday roundly rejected a proposal to tighten their country’s neutrality, final results showed, dismissing an initiative championed by the hard-right and dubbed “pro-Russian” by opponents. While the Swiss widely embrace their neutrality, the initiative to enshrine a strict definition into the constitution exposed deep disagreement over what that neutrality entails. The proposal […]
Read MoreA top US official on Sunday dismissed a proposal for reopening the Strait of Hormuz presented by Iran as “cynical” and indicated it was a non-starter for Washington. Iran’s truce plan, announced by Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi at the United Nations earlier this week, calls for the release of frozen Iranian assets, the lifting of […]
Read MorePope Leo XIV on Sunday urged French bishops to keep battling the “scourge” of clerical sex abuse during a trip to France, after repeated accusations against the Church in recent years. The leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics was on a four-day trip to France, a secular country with deep Catholic roots, marking the […]
Read MoreIran stood firm Sunday on its conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, despite US President Donald Trump’s rejection of the proposal, leaving the Middle East war locked in a stalemate. The waterway is key to the world’s energy supply and is now central to the conflict between Washington and Tehran, which was triggered nearly […]
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UK Prime Minister Andy Burnam urged “calm” Sunday as thousands of people rallied to block a pro-British Protestant march from passing through a mainly Catholic area for the first time in 28 years, triggering an hours-long standoff. The tensions spiked after a Belfast court in the early hours of Sunday cleared the march by the […]
Read MoreGunmen killed at least 27 people in two mass shootings in South Africa’s two main cities, Johannesburg and Cape Town, police said on Sunday, in the latest criminal violence to hit the country. Eight gunmen armed with assault rifles and pistols stormed a bar southwest of Johannesburg at around 1930 GMT on Saturday, killing 17 […]
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