What to know about Cameroon’s separatist violence that the pope seeks to end - AP News

What to know about Cameroon’s separatist violence that the pope seeks to end  AP News

Pope criticises 'tyrants' who spend billions on wars, days after Trump spat

The comments follow a high-profile spat with US President Donald Trump, who called the Pope weak on crime.

Pope Leo, Amid Standoff With Trump, Says ‘Blessed Are the Peacemakers’

For days, Pope Leo XIV has attracted criticism from President Trump and his allies for refusing to back the war in Iran. On Thursday, he reiterated his calls for peace.

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Trump tests loyalty of Christian supporters as erratic behavior escalates

The president maintains his hold on the Christian right, but his bluster, fight with the pope and portrayal of himself as a Jesus-like figure strain that bond.

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Washington and Tehran will have to make compromises and the current deadline must be extended. But with the will there’s clearly a way The failure of the Islamabad talks to end the US-Israel war on Iran was hardly surprising, given the stark differences between Washington’s 15-point proposal and Tehran’s 10-point equivalent. The 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which capped Iran’s uranium enrichment, took more than two years to negotiate, and its roots actually reach back to ...

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GOP strategist on how Trump's supporters are reacting to his criticism of the pope

How are President Trump's most ardent supporters reacting to the image likening himself to Jesus and his criticism of the pope? NPR's A Martinez asks GOP strategist Sarah Longwell.

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Pope Leo decries world ruled by ‘tyrants’ after Trump attacks

Pope, in Cameroon, calls for 'decisive change of course' that leads away from conflict and the exploitation of the land.

Kamala Harris blames president for high gas prices: 'This is a direct result of Donald Trump's war of choice'

Former Vice President Kamala Harris says high fuel prices across America are directly due to President Donald Trump's war against Iran.

Former Pence aide turned Trump critic, Olivia Troye, launches congressional campaign as a Democrat - CNN

Former Pence aide turned Trump critic, Olivia Troye, launches congressional campaign as a Democrat  CNN

Trump issues multiple permits for pipelines transporting oil between Canada and U.S.

Permits include one for the construction of a new pipeline, and several related to the maintenance of existing pipelines, according to White House documents.

In Cameroon, Pope Leo assails ‘tyrants ravaging’ world amid Trump row

Pope Leo blasted leaders who spend billions on wars and said the world was “being ravaged by a handful of tyrants”, in unusually forceful remarks in Cameroon on Thursday after US President Donald Trump attacked him again on social media. Leo, the first US pope, also decried leaders who used religious language to justify wars and urged a “decisive change of course” in a meeting in the biggest city ‌in Cameroon’s anglophone regions, where a simmering conflict going back nearly a decade has left...

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Pope Leo blasts the 'tyrants' ravaging Earth with war and exploitation on Cameroon visit

Pope Leo XIV condemned "a handful of tyrants" that were ravaging the world with war on Thursday, calling instead for the billions spent every year on weapons to go instead towards healthcare and education. The pontiff's strident comments came during a visit to Cameroon's separatist west, where thousands of people have been killed in a years-long conflict.

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Pope Leo says world ‘being ravaged by handful of tyrants’ after Trump attacks

Pontiff decried leaders who spend ‘billions on wars’ amid deepening row with US president

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Catholic groups rebel against Trump over messianic imagery and attacks on the pope

The US president faces criticism after a verbal exchange with Leo XIV and AI-generated posts depicting the Republican with Jesus Christ and healing the sick

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Trump Turns Against Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, Broadening Clash With Europe

The right-wing Italian leader’s quest to hold the U.S.-Europe alliance together is crumbling.

Pope decries a world ‘ravaged by tyrants’

Pope Leo blasted leaders who spend billions on wars and said the world was “being ravaged by a handful of tyrants”, in unusually forceful remarks in Cameroon on Thursday after U.S. President Donald Trump attacked him again on social media. Leo, the first U.S. pope, also decried leaders who used religious language to justify wars […]

Opinion: Opinion | Trump's Favourite Field Marshal: How Munir Became The President's Best Man

One needs to understand not just the US President but the remarkable structural symmetry between the two states he and Asim Munir respectively represent.

Pope Leo brings message of unity to Cameroon’s divided Anglophone regions

Pope Leo XIV is travelling to the western Cameroon city of Bamenda to preach a message of peace in the epicenter of a separatist conflict that humanitarian groups have called one of the world’s most neglected crises.

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TIME names Netanyahu among 2026 Most Influential, calls his post-Oct. 7 comeback bigger than Trump

TIME editor-at-large Ian Bremmer wrote that the PM "once faced the political wasteland" after Hamas's Oct. 7 massacre, but has now engineered a "political comeback" that "may have exceeded Trump's."

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Pope Leo, in Cameroon, decries world ‘ravaged by tyrants’

'They turn a blind eye to the fact that billions of dollars are spent on killing and devastation, yet the resources needed for healing, education, and restoration are nowhere to be found,' says the Pope

By Reuters

Iran War: Trump Expects Hugs From China, Israel Still Bombing Lebanon

Today’s Iran war update: Trump claims he's opened the Strait to Chinese shipping, Israel launches the most massive attack yet on Lebanon, U.S. stocks hit record high.

By Nat Wilson Turner

Former ‘Halo’ composer gets Donald Trump support in US Congress race

Marty O’Donnell has claimed politics will be "a walk in the park compared to making ‘Halo 2’” The post Former ‘Halo’ composer gets Donald Trump support in US Congress race appeared first on NME.

By Ali Shutler

African Catholics recoil at Trump's spat with Pope Leo

The first US-born pope has been an outspoken critic of the war that began with US-Israeli...

Brazil’s Lula says Trump has ‘no right’ to threaten countries

"It is essential that powerful leaders take greater responsibility in maintaining peace," the 80-year-old leftist president added. The post Brazil’s Lula says Trump has ‘no right’ to threaten countries appeared first on Vanguard News.

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