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Cardinals meet ahead of papal election
AFP, Published on 03/05/2025
» VATICAN CITY - The cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church held their ninth in a series of near-daily meetings at the Vatican on Saturday ahead of the election of a new pope.
ABOUT POLITICS: A spanner in the works?
News, Published on 03/05/2025
» Many have made an ominous prediction after hearing Bhumjaithai Party secretary-general Chaichanok Chidchob say in parliament that the coalition government is living on borrowed time.
Australians vote in election swayed by inflation, Trump
AFP, Published on 03/05/2025
» SYDNEY — Millions of Australians voted Saturday in a bitterly contested general election, following a campaign shaped by living costs, climate anxiety and United States President Donald Trump's tariffs.
Germany's AfD dealt blow with right-wing extremist label
AFP, Published on 03/05/2025
» FRANKFURT (GERMANY) - Germany's domestic intelligence service on Friday designated the far-right AfD party as an extremist group, handing authorities greater powers to monitor it and fuelling calls for it to be banned.
Vatican chimney installed ahead of papal conclave
AFP, Published on 02/05/2025
» VATICAN CITY - Firefighters installed the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel on Friday which will emit white smoke to signal the election of a new pope as preparations proceed just five days before cardinals gather for the conclave.
KEX Express shares jump 20% on delisting news
Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 02/05/2025
» Shares of KEX Express (Thailand), formerly known as Kerry Express, jumped nearly 20% on Friday after it announced plans to delist from the Stock Exchange of Thailand on completion of a tender offer by major shareholder SF International Holding (Thailand), or SFTH.
Hard right wins local UK election in blow to PM Starmer
AFP, Published on 02/05/2025
» RUNCORN — Hard-right upstarts Reform UK snatched a parliamentary seat from Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labour party on Friday in local elections that dealt a blow to Britain's two establishment parties.
Hard right makes early gains as local polls test UK's main parties
AFP, Published on 02/05/2025
» LONDON — Britain's hard-right Reform UK party made early gains Friday as results trickled in from local elections that were expected to deliver a bruising for the country's two establishment parties.
300,000 rally across France for May 1, union says
AFP, Published on 02/05/2025
» PARIS - Rallies across France for International Workers' Day drew more than 300,000 on Thursday, including 100,000 in Paris, the CGT trade union told AFP.
Morocco cardinal: Church does not need Francis ‘impersonator’
AFP, Published on 30/04/2025
» ROME - Cardinal Cristobal Lopez Romero, the Spanish-born archbishop of Rabat, admits he is a little anxious ahead of his first conclave, although also curious.