• Zapatista indigenous rebel movement marks 30 years since its armed uprising in southern Mexico

    Zapatista indigenous rebel movement marks 30 years since its armed uprising in southern Mexico

    Jan 01, 2024 09:53 PM EST

    ... to what they were 30 years ago when the Zapatistas appeared, according to government data. Support for the movement has eroded with time and Ruiz lamented that younger generations have not carried the same convictions to maintain the struggle. Gerardo Alberto González, a professor in the Department of Public Health ...

  • The influential people we said goodbye to in 2023

    The influential people we said goodbye to in 2023

    Dec 31, 2023 11:33 PM EST

    ... The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who awed critics and readers with his singular art of lyricism and economy, tragic insight and disruptive humor. Jan. 9. Lynette “Diamond” Hardaway, 51. An ardent supporter of former President Donald Trump and one half of the conservative political commentary duo Diamond and Silk. Jan ...

  • Jacques Delors, architect of the modern European Union, dies aged 98

    Jacques Delors, architect of the modern European Union, dies aged 98

    Dec 27, 2023 06:42 PM EST

    ... as EU Commission president but that he overreached at the end, alienating some European leaders who became “fed up with this guy who hogged the limelight.” A German businessman once likened Delors to the autocratic King Louis XIV of France. In 1992, the Maastricht Treaty that founded the EU clipped ...

  • Amid Israel-Hamas war, Pope Francis calls for worldwide peace on Christmas

    Amid Israel-Hamas war, Pope Francis calls for worldwide peace on Christmas

    Dec 25, 2023 02:18 PM EST

    ... Bethlehem “is a place of sorrow and silence” this year. Francis’ annual “Urbi et Orbi” ("To the City and the World") speech typically offers a lament of all the misery facing the world, and this year’s edition was no different. From Armenia and Azerbaijan to Syria and Yemen, Ukraine ...

  • Vatican prosecutor seeks new trial after cardinal's embezzlement conviction

    Vatican prosecutor seeks new trial after cardinal's embezzlement conviction

    Dec 22, 2023 07:33 PM EST

    ... given to prosecutors, which he said resulted in an investigation and trial that were “well distant from those adopted in a state of law.” He lamented that the defense wasn't allowed to call the pope or the Vatican secretary of state as witnesses, even though other testimony and documentation ...

  • As Israel expands ground war against Hamas, Gaza death toll exceeds 20,000

    As Israel expands ground war against Hamas, Gaza death toll exceeds 20,000

    Dec 22, 2023 03:59 PM EST

    Martin Griffiths, the U.N. humanitarian affairs chief, lamented the world’s inaction. “That such a brutal conflict has been allowed to continue and for this long — despite the widespread condemnation, the physical and mental toll and the massive destruction — is an indelible stain on our collective conscience,” he wrote ...

  • Palestinian Christians prepare for a somber Christmas amid war as many grieve

    Palestinian Christians prepare for a somber Christmas amid war as many grieve

    Dec 22, 2023 02:42 PM EST

    ... signed by several Christian pastoral leaders in Bethlehem. Addressed to President Joe Biden, it asked him to help stop the war. The signatories said they lamented all deaths, Palestinian and Israeli. “We want a constant and comprehensive ceasefire. Enough death. Enough destruction. ... This is our call and prayer this Christmas ...

  • At Iowa rally, Trump doubles down on comments about immigrants poisoning the nation's blood

    At Iowa rally, Trump doubles down on comments about immigrants poisoning the nation's blood

    Dec 20, 2023 03:14 PM EST

    ... evidence, that they bring crime and potentially disease with them. "They come from Africa, they come from Asia, they come from South America," he said, lamenting what he said was a "border catastrophe." Trump made no mention of the Colorado Supreme Court's decision Tuesday to disqualify him from the ...

  • News Wrap: Ukraine commander says weapons in short supply

    News Wrap: Ukraine commander says weapons in short supply

    Dec 18, 2023 11:45 PM EST

    ... a defense agreement with Finland, Pope Francis approved a policy change allowing priests to bless same-sex couples and a trial for democracy activist Jimmy Lye opened in Hong Kong as part of China's campaign to crush dissidents. ... Geoff Bennett: In the day's other headlines: A front-line ...

  • Migrants face eviction from emergency shelters in New York City as holidays approach

    Migrants face eviction from emergency shelters in New York City as holidays approach

    Dec 16, 2023 11:37 PM EST

    ... been staying with her sister and two young nieces for the past four months. “They are going to leave me out in the cold,” Vasquez lamented in Spanish one chilly morning this month outside the hotel. “We don’t have an escape plan. The situation is difficult, even more so ...