07-12-2025 VATICAN CITY: A high-level Vatican commission voted against allowing Catholic women to serve as deacons, maintaining the global Church’s practice of all-male clergy, according to a report given to Pope Leo and released on Thursday. The commission, in a 7-1 vote, said historical research and theological investigation “excludes the …

07-12-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI/ BENGALURU: IndiGo has told India’s aviation regulator its operations will be fully restored by February 10, and has asked for relief from some provisions that limit pilot duty hours at night after the airline cancelled hundreds of flights this week due to a shortage of …

07-12-2025 DUBLIN: Ireland, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Spain have said they will boycott next year’s Eurovision Song Contest, following the decision to allow Israel to compete. The response on Thursday came immediately after the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which runs the competition, said there would not be a vote on …

07-12-2025 WASHINGTON: United States President Donald Trump has hosted the leaders of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to sign a peace deal that could end the conflict between the two countries. Although the violence on the ground has not stopped, Trump hailed the US-brokered deal on …

07-12-2025 GAZA STRIP: The killing of Gaza militia leader Yasser Abu Shabab, confirmed by his Popular Forces group and by Israeli media, is the final chapter of a man who tried to present himself with Israeli support as an alternative to Hamas, but who was widely derided by Palestinians as …

07-12-2025 MELBOURNE: Meta has started removing Australian children under 16 years old from its Instagram, Facebook and Threads platforms, a week before an official teen social media ban begins. The tech giant announced last month it had begun notifying users aged between 13 to 15 years old that their accounts …

Hyderabad, Dec.6 (PMI NEWS): Deputy Chief Minister Bhatti Vikramarka and Minister for IT and Industries Duddilla Sridhar Babu called on Governor Jishnu Dev Varma at Lok Bhavan here on Saturday and extended invitation to attend the “Telangana Rising Global Summit,” a flagship event that the State government will be hosting …

06-12-2025 By SJA Jafri + Agencies RAWALPINDI/ ISLAMABAD: For nearly a month, family members of Pakistan’s jailed former Prime Minister (PM), Imran Khan, 73, say they were barred from seeing him, prompting protests and causing concerns about his health. After his sister, Uzma Khanum, finally visited him at Adiala jail, …

06-12-2025 NAIROBI: Kenya’s parliament has accused British soldiers of decades of sexual abuse, killings, human rights violations and environmental destruction while training in the country. The report detailed harrowing testimony from communities in Laikipia and Samburu counties, near the military training bases. The British soldiers are accused of evading accountability …

06-12-2025 NEW YORK: There was something “fundamentally wrong” with how Israel conducted its military operation in the Gaza Strip and there are “strong reasons to believe” that war crimes have been committed, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told Reuters on Wednesday. “I think there was something fundamentally wrong in the …