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Trump to call Putin in push for Ukraine ceasefire
AFP, Published on 19/05/2025
» WASHINGTON - Donald Trump will speak by phone Monday with Russia's Vladimir Putin as part of the US leader's effort to end the grinding war set off by Moscow's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Trump to hold call with Putin in push for Ukraine ceasefire
AFP, Published on 19/05/2025
» WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump will hold a phone call with Russia's Vladimir Putin on Monday as part of his long-running effort to end the war set off by Moscow's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Ukraine says Russia launched 'record' drone barrage as Zelensky visits Vatican
AFP, Published on 18/05/2025
» KYIV (UKRAINE) - Ukraine on Sunday said that Russia had launched a record number of drones at the country overnight, targeting various regions, including that of the capital Kyiv, where a woman was killed.
First US pope Leo XIV takes to popemobile ahead of inaugural mass
AFP, Published on 18/05/2025
» VATICAN CITY - Pope Leo XIV, the first US pontiff, made his debut tour of St Peter's Square on Sunday in a popemobile, greeting tens of thousands of pilgrims and well-wishers ahead of his inauguration mass.
India claims Pakistan violated truce, says it is retaliating
AFP, Published on 11/05/2025
» ISLAMABAD - India accused Pakistan of violating a fragile ceasefire agreement Saturday and said it was retaliating, hours after US President Donald Trump announced that the nuclear-armed neighbours had stepped back from the brink of full-blown war.
Rethink the South
Oped, Postbag, Published on 10/05/2025
» Re: "Govt 'ready for new talks' on peace in deep South", (BP, May 7).
Tennis, Twitter and marinated fish: Things to know about Pope Leo
AFP, Published on 09/05/2025
» VATICAN CITY - When Pope Leo XIV walked out onto the balcony of St Peter's Basilica, few among the crowd gathered below had much of an idea of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost the man.
India says it thwarted Pakistan air strikes as tensions soar
Published on 09/05/2025
» India said it “neutralised” Pakistani drone and missile attacks targeting several military sites on Thursday night, marking an escalation in hostilities between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.
Xi and Putin meet in Moscow as Ukraine reports truce violations
AFP, Published on 08/05/2025
» MOSCOW - China’s Xi Jinping was in Moscow on Thursday for a state visit ahead of the Kremlin’s grand Victory Day celebrations, as Ukraine accused Russia’s army of launching air strikes just hours into a supposed truce.
India and Pakistan edge closer to war
Oped, Published on 08/05/2025
» Yesterday, India launched strikes on Pakistan and Pakistani-administered Kashmir, two weeks after a terrorist attack. The situation follows a long-smouldering fuse which has reignited in the wake of the terrible terrorist attack killing 27 tourists in a region of disputed Kashmir, part of India's territory. Some 25 Indian civilians were apparently targeted because of their Hindu religion.