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Pope Leo XIV met with the first woman to lead the world’s Anglican Christians on Monday, the newly enthroned Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally, urging unity to evangelise more effectively. The papal audience at the Vatican comes in the 60th anniversary year of the first formal ecumenical statement between the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches, signed in 1966 at St. Paul’s Outside the Walls basilica by Archbishop Michael Ramsey and Pope Paul VI. The visit, part of what Mullally called a four-day pilgrimage to Rome, is her first trip abroad since taking up her groundbreaking role last month as the…

Published on 27/04/2026 – 20:26 GMT+2 The man who authorities say tried to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner with guns and knives has been charged with the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump. He appeared in court on Monday to face charges after a chaotic encounter in Washington that resulted in shots being fired, Trump being rushed off the stage and guests ducking for cover underneath their tables. Cole Tomas Allen was taken into custody after the shooting on Saturday night and is being charged in federal court in Washington. Authorities say an officer wearing a bullet-resistant vest…

Tensions between Ukraine and Israel have grown as Kyiv seeks to prevent a vessel carrying grain allegedly stolen from Russian-occupied areas of the country from docking and unloading in the port of Haifa. Ukraine’s foreign minister said Kyiv had issued a summons for Israel’s ambassador to appear on Tuesday morning to present a protest note and request appropriate action. Andrii Sybiha said “friendly Ukrainian-Israeli relations have the potential to benefit both countries,” and reiterated that “Russia’s illegal trade with stolen Ukrainian grain should not undermine them.” “It is difficult to understand Israel’s lack of appropriate response to Ukraine’s legitimate request…

Published on 27/04/2026 – 20:56 GMT+2 US President Donald Trump called for comedian Jimmy Kimmel to be sacked for likening First Lady Melania Trump to an “expectant widow,” in a joke made days before a shooting at a dinner attended by the president. “Jimmy Kimmel should be immediately fired by Disney and ABC,” over the “despicable call to violence,” Trump said in a social media post on Monday, hours after Melania Trump also criticised the comment. “I appreciate that so many people are incensed by Kimmel’s despicable call to violence, and normally would not be responsive to anything that he…

BRUXELLES — Nuti Ivo, une tannerie italienne appartenant au groupe LVMH, a acheté des peaux animales à des entreprises paraguayennes liées à la déforestation, selon l’enquête de l’ONG Global Witness, alors même que son dirigeant tente d’obtenir des exemptions dans le cadre de la réglementation européenne contre la déforestation. Avec le soutien de députés et de responsables publics européens, l’industrie du cuir fait campagne auprès de la Commission européenne pour que ses nouvelles règles sur les importations de produits liés à la déforestation n’incluent pas de restrictions sur les peaux animales. Le secteur dit ne pas être responsable de la…

Published on 27/04/2026 – 19:20 GMT+2 The UN Human Rights Committee said on Monday that Sweden had violated the right to life of a child with severe disabilities by deporting him twice to Albania. The committee reviewed a complaint referring to E. B., an Albanian now aged 21, who was diagnosed with autism, grave mental developmental disorder, spastic diplegic cerebral palsy, hydrocephalus and epilepsy. He and his family arrived in Sweden in 2012 seeking protection and medical care but after years of unsuccessful asylum applications and appeals, they were deported to Albania in 2016, when he was 10. The family…

PARIS — C’est finalement un “oui”. A l’issue d’une réunion de plusieurs heures à huis clos, les députés de la commission d’enquête sur l’audiovisuel public ont voté en faveur de la publication du rapport rédigé par le député de l’Union des droites pour la République (UDR), Charles Alloncle. Douze députés se sont prononcés pour et dix contre, selon deux participants aux discussions. Cette décision fait suite à plusieurs jours de débats au sein des groupes politiques sur l’intérêt de publier ce rapport dénoncé comme “mensonger” par plusieurs formations de gauche, dont le groupe écologiste et les Insoumis. En cause :…

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s decision to grant an estimated 500,000 undocumented migrants legal status has sparked a lively debate about migration across Europe, but also opened the door to a series of misleading claims. In an X post on 14 April, Jordan Bardella, leader of the French far-right National Rally party, claimed that newly documented individuals “will tomorrow be able to travel freely in France and even settle there, attracted by the generosity of our social system, which is open without conditions.” Bruno Retailleau, the candidate from France’s conservative Republicans party, also called for the closure of borders within…

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Oil producers across the South Caucuses and Central Asia are navigating a more fluid global market, as long-standing export models give way to faster, demand-driven trading dynamics. At the second Caspian and Central Asia Oil Trading and Logistics Forum in Baku, industry experts described a clear pivot towards flexibility and away from predictable, long-term contracting. “Markets are very volatile now, and volatility always creates niche opportunities,” said Colin Nesbeth, founder and CEO of Central Asia Marketing. “From a trading point of view, opportunities appear that simply weren’t there before.” That volatility, however, cuts both ways. Companies shut out of one…