At the Rubaya mining complex in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the hillside known as Kasasa gave way once again in early March, burying more than 200 people beneath a slurry of mud, rock, and unregulated extraction. Local civil society groups now estimate the combined death toll from successive collapses in January and March may exceed 400 miners, many of them children.
VATICAN, WASHINGTON – In the annals of modern geopolitics, few confrontations have been as symbolically charged, as theologically fraught, and as politically explosive as the one currently unfolding between the White House and the Vatican. When President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform on Sunday night to unleash a 334-word tirade against Pope Leo XIV, the first American-born pontiff in the history of the Catholic Church, he did more than simply vent his displeasure at a religious leader who had dared to criticise his foreign policy.
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