The United States Ambassador to Libya, Richard Norland, said in Tripoli on Saturday that his country will take “concrete steps in response to gross human rights violations and corruption and against those who undermine peace or security and stability in Libya”. The envoy made this known while commenting on his country’s decision to impose sanctions […]

Pope Francis on Saturday named 13 new cardinals, including Washington Archbishop Wilton Gregory, the first black US prelate to be admitted among the so-called Princes of the Church. Gregory, who turns 73 next month, leads an archdiocese rocked by the scandal of Theodore McCarrick, a former archbishop who was defrocked last year after being outed […]

Hundreds of people demonstrated again in Warsaw on Saturday against the tightening of Poland’s abortion law. The police asked the demonstrators to leave via loudspeaker and tried to surround them, the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza reported. “We have a right to protest,” the crowd chanted. The participants carried banners with slogans such as: “Don’t tell me […]

The US on Friday announced economic sanctions on Chinese and Russian companies that Washington said had supported the development of Iran’s missile program. The four firms, accused of “transferring sensitive technology and items to Iran’s missile program,” will be subject to restrictions on US government aid and on their exports for two years, Secretary of […]

Islamic State-linked extremists killed four people in a remote Christian community on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, authorities said Saturday, with one victim beheaded and another burned to death. The group of sword-and-gun wielding attackers ambushed Lembantongoa village in Central Sulawesi province Friday morning, killing several residents and torching half a dozen homes, including one […]