June 25, 2015 - Page 3

Pope Francis’s mass in Philadelphia for the Catholic Church’s World Meeting of Families in September is expected to draw up to two million faithful, organisers said Thursday. Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Joseph Chaput

Washington and Tehran have set the stage for a heated last weekend of nuclear talks, with Iran’s leader sticking to tough “red lines” and US Secretary of State John Kerry warning failure

Failing to provide asylum seekers with safe passage to the EU while hundreds die at sea is tantamount to genocide, a mayor on the frontline of the crisis warned Thursday. “We’re living

Foreign fighters with Somalia’s Shebab insurgents pose a risk to Europe if troops fail to stop them, Kenya’s deputy president warned Thursday, days after the first British jihadi was killed in Kenya.

Around 200 students broke into the US embassy in Burundi on Thursday seeking refuge after police threatened to break up their camp outside the compound, AFP witnesses said. Armed US marines watched

Gunmen have kidnapped an Argentinian national near a farm where he was working in Niger state, north central Nigeria, police said on Thursday. Santiago Lopez Menendez was seized on Wednesday in the

Poland’s parliament adopted a law Thursday on in vitro fertilisation (IVF), which was previously allowed in the mostly Catholic country but remained unregulated because of opposition from the right and the Church.