Pope Francis has suggested there could be ways to bless same-sex unions, responding to five conservative cardinals who challenged him to affirm church teaching on homosexuality ahead of a big meeting where LGBTQ+ Catholics are on the agenda.
Hungary celebrated Monday after this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Hungarian-born scientist Katalin Karikó and U.S. colleague Drew Weissman for developing technology that led to controversial mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.
Authorities in Warsaw said Sunday that about a million people attended the Polish capital’s biggest opposition rally on record ahead of upcoming elections that could determine the level of support for neighboring war-torn Ukraine.
Turkey confirmed late Sunday that it struck Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, hours after a suicide blast hit the interior ministry in Ankara, the capital.
Iran has the infrastructure in place and the know-how to make a nuclear weapon in less than two weeks, according to the U.S. Department of Defense’s 2023 Strategy for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction report.
The United States has quietly acknowledged that Iran’s paramilitary Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps successfully put an imaging satellite into orbit in recent days in a launch that resembled others previously criticized by Washington as helping Tehran’s ballistic missile program.
In a sign of the toll Moscow’s invasion is having on Russian troop levels, President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Saturday for the military to enlist 130,000 more recruits.
The coalition supporting wartorn Ukraine faces more internal troubles after the party of a pro-Russian former prime minister won Slovakia’s parliamentary elections.
Armenia has asked the European Union for assistance to help it deal with a massive refugee influx from Nagorno-Karabakh as nearly all 120,000 mainly Christian Armenians living there have fled after Azerbaijan recaptured the region last week in a battle that killed more than 200 people.
Hundreds of forest fires in Indonesia, the nation’s worst in years, have caused haze to reach areas of Malaysia where it has worsened air quality, officials said Saturday.
At least 52 people were killed on Friday in an apparent suicide attack at a religious gathering in southwest Pakistan, officials said, the latest sign of the country’s deteriorating security situation and growing Islamic extremism.
Taiwan revealed the island’s first domestically built submarine on Thursday, a major breakthrough in its defense capabilities as tensions with China continue to rise.
The self-declared Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh leader warns it will cease to exist in the new year. Samvel Shahramanyan made the announcement Thursday as an exodus of desperate Armenians continued. The region, which Armenians had controlled for three decades, was seized by Azerbaijan last week, leading to tens of thousands fleeing their homes.
At least three people including a 14-year-old girl have died following twin shootings in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam, authorities said late Thursday.
Iran claimed on Wednesday that it has successfully put an imaging satellite into space. The state-run IRNA news agency, quoting the country’s Communication Minister Isa Zarepour, said the Noor-3 satellite had been put in an orbit 450 kilometers (280 miles) above the Earth’s surface.
Russia has released video footage showing the Black Sea Fleet’s commander despite Ukraine claiming to have killed him in one of its deadliest strikes.
North Korea has freed U.S. soldier Travis King, who is “happy” to be heading home, officials said, though he still faces prosecution for alleged misbehavior while serving in the U.S. army. King is in “good health” nearly three months after he ran across the border from South Korea, according to U.S. sources familiar with the case.
Armenia says some 42,500 Armenians have now fled Nagorno-Karabakh, about a third of the population of the wartorn enclave that neighboring Azerbaijan recaptured last week. They are hungry and exhausted.
There was political turmoil Wednesday after the speaker of Canada’s House of Commons resigned for inviting a man who fought for a Nazi military unit during World War II to Parliament to attend a speech by the Ukrainian president.
Tensions remained Wednesday after a Budapest court sentenced a captain to five and a half years in prison for his role in an accident in which his cruise ship hit and sank a smaller boat on the River Danube in Hungary, killing at least 27 people.