Author: Yash Mehra

The Vatican stated in a statement on Thursday. Pope Francis has concluded there is insufficient evidence to begin a Church inquiry against Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet over claims of sexual abuse. Ouellet, a key Vatican official, was named earlier this week in a class action. complaint filed against the Quebec Catholic diocese. alleging sexual assaults by 88 priests. and staff members dating back to 1940. An unnamed complainant claimed in the Quebec Superior Court petition. that Ouellet sexually touched her and made statements that made her feel uncomfortable between 2008 and 2010. while Ouellet was archbishop of Quebec and was…

Kenya politician Raila Odinga called the outcome of the Aug 9 presidential election a “travesty,”  which he was adjudged to have lost to Deputy President William Ruto, and warned of a protracted legal crisis confronting Kenya ‘s democracy on Tuesday. His initial comments on the outcome came after four of the seven election commissioners stated they were stuck by their decision to disavow statistics published by electoral commission chairman Wafula Chebukati a day earlier. Fears of violence have been raised following disputed votes in East Africa’s richest country in 2007 when more than 1,200 people were slain, and again in…

Russia accused saboteurs for explosions at one of its military outposts in Moscow-annexed Crimea, while Kiev implied it was to blame, saying their objective was to undermine supply lines supporting Russia’s incursion. According to Russian officials and news media, the explosions on Tuesday consumed a munitions storage at a military facility in the north of the Crimean peninsula, halting trains and prompting the evacuation of 2,000 residents from a neighbouring hamlet. Smoke plumes were subsequently detected at a second Russian military facility in central Crimea, according to Russia’s Kommersant newspaper. The blasts at a Russian military air facility in western…

On Monday, Kenya’s elections head pronounced Deputy President William Ruto the victor of a close presidential contest, but several senior election officials disavowed the outcome, fueling concerns of violence similar to those witnessed following past disputed results. Praising the election commission as “heroes” ,”There is no looking back,” Ruto added. We are anticipating the future. To move forward, we need all hands on deck.” The 55-year-old had made Kenya’s class disparities the focal point of his campaign to become the country’s fifth president, vowing to reward low-income “hustlers” while mocking Kenya’s political dynasties. That was a thinly disguised dig at…

Pierre Moureau, who has rooftop solar panels, only sees the blackouts that often leave South Africans in the dark when complaints appear on his Johannesburg neighborhood’s WhatsApp group. “I have a certain standard of living,” the 68-year-old financial planner, who relaxes in his private sauna, explained. “I want to be able to live according to the way I am.” As Africa’s most industrialized economy suffers from a deepening power crisis, generating public outrage, President Cyril Ramaphosa has vowed to eliminate red tape in order to increase the use of renewable energy in coal-dependent South Africa. However, many South Africans are…

According to official results announced by Kenyan media on Sunday, Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto has moved ahead in a close presidential contest, as extra riot police were deployed inside the national election counting centre following scuffles and complaints by party agents. The scuffle highlighted frayed tempers and heightened tensions within the national counting hall as the country awaits official election results from last Tuesday. Citizens took witty digs at the chaos online, pointing out that the rest of the country is calmly waiting. Official certified results provided by the Nation media group showed Ruto receiving 51% of the vote,…

Ukraine’s President, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has warned Russian soldiers who shoot at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant or use it as a shooting range that they will be a “particular target” for Ukrainian forces. The United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has urged for the construction of a demilitarised zone at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power facility in southern Ukraine, amid fears of a nuclear disaster following repeated shelling in recent days, which Russia and Ukraine blame on one another. Zelenskiy, who did not provide any specifics, maintained his belief that Russia was using the facility, which it took early in the war…

A few strong supporters on Saturday, Iranian newspapers lauded the individual who assaulted and severely injured author Salman Rushdie, whose work “The Satanic Verses” had garnered death threats from Iran since 1989. There has been no official comment in Iran to the attack on Rushdie, who was stabbed in the neck and body onstage at a conference in New York state on Friday. The conservative Kayhan daily, whose editor-in-chief is handpicked by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, on the other hand, wrote,“A thousand bravos … to the brave and dutiful person who attacked the apostate and evil Salman Rushdie in…

Official election results showed veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga leading Kenya’s presidential contest on Saturday, pushing Deputy President William Ruto into second place. Odinga had 54% and Ruto had 45% with little over 26% of votes counted, according to figures supplied by the Kenyan election commission and projected on a giant screen at a national counting centre in Nairobi at lunchtime. On Tuesday, East Africa’s wealthiest country and most lively democracy held presidential, parliamentary, and local elections. Ruto and Odinga are hoping to succeed President Uhuru Kenyatta, who has served two terms. Kenyatta split with Ruto during the previous election…

As the aftermath in Gaza after last weekend’s brief conflict with Israel continues, another dispute has erupted about which side was accountable for the casualties after Israel claimed that misfired missiles from the Palestinian side killed 15 people in the enclave. According to Israeli military officials, one-fifth of the more than 1,000 rockets fired at Israel failed, many of which landed in Gaza, killing a third of the 44 people who died there during the 56-hour conflict in which Israeli planes bombarded the tiny coastal strip. The Israeli military released videos and radar photos which showed an Islamic Jihad rocket…