Year: 2025

But a papal commission examining the question said further study was required, and advised that women should be given other leadership roles in the Catholic Church.

The activists provided support to people who sought sanctuary in Greece during Europe’s migration crisis.

Hearings that began Wednesday in Washington reflected anxiety over the future of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade pact and whether the president could end up scrapping it.

The death of a British woman from Novichok was the result of a botched assassination attempt on a former Russian spy, an official report said on Thursday.

Mr. Abu Shabab, a Bedouin man in his 30s, was at the center of an Israeli project in Gaza to build up anti-Hamas militias.

Israel launched a military strike after it said Hamas militants attacked its soldiers, the latest clashes in the two months since a truce was signed.

The Israeli government authorized 22 settlements in May, the largest expansion in decades, and Palestinian families are now being forced from their homes.

The president will meet with the leaders of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo to advance a deal meant to end a long war in eastern Congo.

Officials estimate the damage runs into billions of dollars, a headache for the island nation just recovering from an economic crash.

The militant group took more than 250 hostages from Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, including 31 from Thailand. The remains of all but one other hostage, an Israeli, have been recovered.