Starting a family in Italy is becoming a “titanic effort” that only the rich can afford, Pope Francis has warned. Addressing a conference on Italy’s demographic crisis, he said pets were replacing children in many households. Also on stage were dozens of young people, wearing t-shirts saying “we can do this” – alluding to convincing…
May 12 (Reuters) – Shares of major U.S. regional lenders were mostly lower on Friday, underscoring continued investor uncertainty about the financial stability of mid-sized banks. Comerica Inc (CMA.N), Fifth Third Bancorp (FITB.O) and KeyCorp (KEY.N) fell 3.7%, 1.1% and nearly 2%, respectively. PacWest Bancorp (PACW.O), which lost 23% on Thursday after reporting a decline…
Greetings from Tyler, I bet you thought you’d never see Donald Trump getting interrogated by CNN. Obviously, it was a ratings play that CNN desperately needed. But it didn’t go well for CNN or the girl asking the questions. Watch it if you can. Reports are circulating that the network ended the town hall nearly…
SYDNEY, May 10 (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will sign defence and surveillance agreements with Papua New Guinea, the island nation’s foreign minister said, on a visit that renews the strategic importance of the nation where Biden’s uncle died in World War Two. PNG, the South Pacific’s most populous nation, will also see a…
Farmers are turning to desperate measures in drought-hit Spain, which just had its warmest April on record. Twenty six people have been arrested for tapping illegal wells to grow tropical fruit in southern Spain, police said on Tuesday. During a four-year investigation, authorities uncovered more than 250 illegal wells, bore holes and ponds in the…
Straining under the pressure of thousands of migrants flooding into the US, Border Patrol agents were ordered to begin releasing swaths of people from overwhelmed holding facilities Wednesday. Agents were ordered Wednesday to release migrants from any border sector that reached 125% capacity. They are being released without having a court date and with no…
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine is delaying its long-awaited counteroffensive against Russia’s occupying forces, saying that while such a campaign would succeed, too many of his troops’ lives would be lost KYIV, Ukraine — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in remarks broadcast Thursday that Kyiv is delaying its long-awaited counteroffensive against Russia’s occupying forces because Ukraine…
The House Oversight and Accountability Committee released new evidence on Wednesday of the Biden family’s alleged “influence peddling schemes.” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) revealed that “thousands of pages of financial records” obtained during the investigation show that the Biden family and their associates created a “complicated network of companies” in an attempt…
KALEHE, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 9 (Reuters) – The death toll from flooding in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo crept higher on Tuesday as aid workers found more bodies among the muddy devastation and wounded residents succumbed to their injuries in an underequipped local clinic. The floods, in a remote, mountainous area of South…
A baby has been born using three people’s DNA for the first time in the UK, the fertility regulator has confirmed. Most of their DNA comes from their two parents and around 0.1% from a third, donor woman. The pioneering technique is an attempt to prevent children being born with devastating mitochondrial diseases. Fewer than…