Faithfuls light candles for Pope Francis at Piramide de Mayo monument during a Torchlight March in support of the health of Pope Francis on March 7, 2025 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.Tobias Skarlovnik | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesPope Francis is showing a “good response” to his treatment in hospital for double pneumonia and his overall condition is gradually improving, the Vatican said on Saturday.Francis, 88, has been in Rome’s Gemelli hospital for more than three weeks with a severe respiratory infection that has required continuously evolving treatment.”The clinical condition of the Holy Father in recent days has remained stable…
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Aerial view of self-propelled jack-up wind power installation platform “Huaxia Honghu 01” after being delivered at CIMC Raffles’ Yantai construction base on March 6, 2025 in Yantai, Shandong Province of China.Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty ImagesChina’s national consumer price index (CPI) in February fell into negative territory for the first time since January last year, weighed down by a decline in food, tobacco and alcohol prices.The CPI declined by 0.7% last month from a year earlier, data published Sunday by China’s National Bureau of Statistics showed, reversing a year-on-year gain of 0.5% in January. The reading missed estimates…
Dangerous pathogens left unsecured at labs across Africa. Halted inspections for mpox, Ebola and other infections at airports and other checkpoints. Millions of unscreened animals shipped across borders.The Trump administration’s pause on foreign aid has hobbled programs that prevent and snuff out outbreaks around the world, scientists say, leaving people everywhere more vulnerable to threatening viruses and bacteria.That includes Americans. Outbreaks that begin overseas can travel quickly: The coronavirus may have first appeared in China, for example, but it soon appeared everywhere, including the United States. When polio or dengue appears in this country, cases are usually linked to international…
The police in Manitoba have identified some of the human remains found in the search of a landfill near Winnipeg last month as those of Morgan Beatrice Harris, one of four Indigenous victims of a serial killer, the authorities said on Friday.Ms. Harris and three other women, who were all from the Winnipeg area, were killed between March and May 2022. Ms. Harris, a member of the Long Plain First Nation, was 39.Until Friday, only the remains of one woman, Rebecca Contois, 24, had been found and identified.Jeremy Anthony Michael Skibicki was convicted in the killings late last year and…
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the nation’s premier agency for weather and climate science, has been told by the Trump administration to prepare to lose another 1,000 workers, raising concerns that NOAA’s lifesaving forecasts might be hindered as hurricane and disaster season approaches.The new dismissals would come in addition to the roughly 1,300 NOAA staff members who have already resigned or been laid off in recent weeks. The moves have alarmed scientists, meteorologists and others at the agency, which includes the National Weather Service. Some activities, including the launching of weather balloons, have already been suspended because of staffing…
This photo provided by the New York Air National Guard shows smoke from the fires in the Pine Barrens off Sunrise Highway in New York’s Long Island, on Saturday, March 8, 2025.Cheran Campbell/New York Air National Guard via APFast-moving brush fires burned through a large swath of land on New York’s Long Island on Saturday fanned by high winds, spewing thick gray smoke into the sky and prompting the evacuation of a military base and the closure of a major highway.Officials said three of the four fires were fully contained while the other one, in Westhampton, was 50 percent contained.…
Three days of clashes between fighters affiliated with Syria’s new leaders and those loyal to the ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad have left scores of civilians dead, according to two war monitoring groups, who reported on Saturday that many of them had been killed by the government’s forces.The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has monitored the Syrian conflict since 2011, said early Sunday that more than 1,000 people had been killed in the coastal provinces of Tartus and Latakia. That figure included about 700 civilians, most killed by government fighters. The information could not be independently verified.Another monitoring group,…
Iran’s supreme leader decried “bullying governments” and bristled on Saturday at the idea of negotiating over the country’s nuclear program with the United States in an apparent response to a letter sent by President Trump earlier in the week.Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the leader, indirectly addressed Mr. Trump’s suggestion that Iran negotiate over its rapidly advancing nuclear program or face potential military action, while speaking at a meeting with government and military officials for Ramadan. Though he did not explicitly mention the letter, Mr. Trump or even the United States by name, it was clear he was speaking about Washington’s recent…
domoyega | E+ | Getty ImagesAlicia Love typically purchases the most popular beans for Coffee Labs Roasters in a one-year deal with her coffee importer. But at the end of last year, prices were so high that she decided to wait the market out.Instead, prices climbed even higher. With supplies running low, she signed a purchase order for a three-month supply, and hopes that prices will soon ease.”At the time I thought, should we wait to sign this new deal?” Love, an owner of the Tarrytown, New York, business, told CNBC. “I’m kicking myself in the butt now for not…
Yoon Suk Yeol attends a hearing for his impeachment trial at the Constitutional Court in Seoul, South Korea, on Jan. 23, 2025.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSouth Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol walked out of a detention center in Seoul on Saturday after prosecutors decided not to appeal a court decision to cancel the impeached leader’s arrest warrant on insurrection charges.Yoon, 64, remains suspended from his duties, and his criminal and impeachment trials continue over his short-lived imposition of martial law on December 3.The Seoul Central District Court canceled Yoon’s arrest warrant on Friday, citing the timing of his indictment…
