Leaders are not using common sense, the Tibetan spiritual leader added, amid heightened tensions and military exercises. He called for a century of peace. “We must seriously make efforts, step-by-step, for a nuclear-free world,” he said. The Dalai Lama visited Londonderry in Northern Ireland for a charity event. His intervention […]
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Tens of thousands of demonstrators are preparing to take to the streets in protest at the new employment laws and the marchers have been spurred on by Mr Macron’s remarks. Critics said the comments proved Mr Macron, a former merchant banker, was arrogant and out of touch with the concerns […]
Pope Francis said the devastation caused by the recent hurricanes should prompt world leaders to act now on climate change. The Pope said: “If we don’t turn back, we will go down.” Pope Francis strongly backed the 2015 Paris Agreement on reducing global warming, which Mr Trump walked away from […]
The exile, who worked among elites in Pyongyang, believes the North Korean leader’s dynasty is “the most unstable” and “is going to be the shortest”. He decided to leave the hermit nation after the execution of Jang Song Thank, Kim’s uncle, and has only been in the free world for […]
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump observed a solemn moment of silence Monday at the White House, his first presidential remembrance of the 9/11 terror attacks. The president and first lady stood stoically on the White House South Lawn, bowing their heads in honor of the moment that the first plane […]
President Donald Trump with wife Melania joined the nation in a minute’s silence to mark the 16th anniversary of the September 11 attacks which killed nearly 3,000 people when hijackers flew commercial planes into the World Trade Center. The President fell silent with staff and officials at the White House […]
Some six passengers were hurt when the unknown gas was released at the German airport, forcing check-in desks to shut down as a precaution. The travellers were sprayed by an irritant at around 11am on Monday, near the check-in desks at Terminal 1. Firefighters rushed to the scene after receiving […]
Alex Woolfall was on holiday at the Caribbean island of St Martin when the hurricane hit. The PR consultant, from London, was forced to shelter in a concrete stairwell of the Westin Hotel as howling winds battered the building. He wrote: “My God this noise! It’s like standing behind a […]