Walter

Pope Leo XIV met on Saturday with a group of people who were sexually abused by members of the clergy in Belgium. The group of fifteen were victims of abuse when they were minors, the Holy See Press Office said.  Many of the survivors had previously met with the late Pope Francis during his 2024 visit to Belgium, the Vatican

The battle for Pokrovsk has been the subject of military reports for days. For Ukrainian troops, the entrenched fighting on this stretch of the front line is critical. Twenty-one months after the Russian invasion of Avdiivka, a suburb of Donetsk, Pokrovsk could now be taken by Russian troops as another logistical hub, which would be crucial for control of

Germany's infamous symbol of division, the Berlin Wall, split West Berlin — an isolated enclave of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) — from East Berlin, in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) for 28 years. Construction began in 1961 under the orders of the GDR's communist leadership, following the flight of approximately 3 million people to

The U-17 Men's World Cup is usually followed by football scouts and keen fans all searching for the next Lionel Messi — but the 2025 edition has taken on greater significance. The tournament has become FIFA's testing ground for the 48-team format, the one that will be on show at the World Cup in the United States

In March 1938, paramilitary groups in leather boots and brown uniforms marched through the streets of Vienna. Part of Adolf Hitler's Sturmabteilung (SA) paramilitary, they were celebrating Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria. As two SA members hung a sign that read "I am a Jewish pig" around an old woman's neck, a man pushed through the

Skip next section Thank you for reading November 10, 2025 Thank you for reading Thank you for reading. On Monday, the trial for a man accused of carrying out an attack on a Christmas market in the eastern city of Magdeburg is set to begin Monday.  Be sure to check back for the latest on the topic and

Brazil knows how to put on a show. From the World Cup and the Olympics to a recent free Lady Gaga concert that drew millions of people to Copacabana Beach, few nations stage global spectacles quite like it.  Next up is climate diplomacy's most important annual event, the UN climate summit, known as COP.  Thirty

Armenia has seen a lot of violence over the past five years. The small country in the Caucasus, with a population of about 3 million, was defeated in the 2020 war with Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. Still, many of the ethnic Armenians who lived in the region stayed. In the years that followed, Armenia

"I can vividly remember the last day," said Emerico Maria Laccetti, former colonel of the military division of Italian Red Cross. During the Kosovo War in 1999, he was stationed in Albania, just a few hundred meters from the border with Kosovo. He was the commander of a field hospital for refugees from the province, which

The world of social media is flashy and fast-paced: those who stand out rise to the top with their ballrooms, space rockets, and chainsaws, dominating the headlines. The researchers for Germany's "Mitte Studie" ("Center Study"), however, turn their attention away from the dazzling personalities and the fringes, to examine those who form the backbone of