Pope’s cancer operation already reshaping papacy
With Pope Leo XIV recovering in hospital on Thursday following his lung cancer operation, questions are swirling about how the illness could change his papacy, less than two years after his election.
Erdogan says Turkey to press ahead with gas search off Cyprus
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday hit out at EU measures to punish Ankara for drilling activities in the eastern Mediterranean and vowed to press ahead with gas search in the region.
Sexual violence means Rohingya can’t return to Myanmar: UN
Sexual violence by Myanmar’s military against Muslim Rohingya amounts to war crimes, a UN report said Thursday, adding that conditions are not favorable for refugees to return to the country.
UN chief Guterres says ‘deeply concerned’ by Amazon fires
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Thursday he was “deeply concerned” by wildfires that have devoured large sections of the Amazon rainforest, blanketing several Brazilian cities in thick smoke.
Five things to know about Brazil’s Amazon
The Amazon is the largest tropical forest in the world, covering 5.5 million square kilometers (2.1 million square miles), an ecological treasure threatened by escalating deforestation and forest fires.
Florida prepares to execute killer who targeted gays
A confessed murderer linked to a months-long killing spree in 1994 that targeted older gay men faced execution Thursday in the US state of Florida.
