US Catholic bishops seem to be directly engaging JD Vance here.
Vance suggested that the pope was unaware of Catholic Just War Theory — thereby missing the pope’s point, namely, that the US/Israel attack on Iran, launched mid-negotiations, cannot satisfy the Just War criteria.
Make no bones about it, Orbán’s defeat in this election is also a defeat for both Trump and Putin.
Magyar’s campaign focused on prosecuting the case that Orban’s administration was a corrupt grift, and overwhelmingly that appears to have won the day.
Exclusive: Iranian source says US has agreed to release frozen Iranian assets in Qatar, other banks reut.rs/4t5FaR2
My Easter Monday special guest on #BBCTalkback is the comedian Vittorio Angelone.
And he’s just wonderful.
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Everyone’s a critic! My apologies.
Yikes. I’m clearly losing my sense of humour!
You can always contact the BBC with your concerns on the online page.
That’s an interesting backronym, but not, alas, the origin of the term.
On this weeks Sunday from @BBCRadio4:
The King’s Easter Sunday messages
Spirituality and space travel
The use and abuse of the Bible in the politics of war
India’s anti-conversion laws
Music and mortality
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Maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains at a near-standstill. Here's what to know about the waterway that's key to oil and gas trade
President Catherine Connolly said the war in the Middle East constitutes 'deliberate assaults on international law' and affirmed Ireland's constitutional commitment to peace jrnl.ie/6978670
“But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis.”
Mary Wollstonecraft, in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), argues that present realities cannot defeat the power of an imagined future — that revolutions begin with the imagination. #IWD26
Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.
OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying…
“Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”
Does being rebuked by Tony Blair for not joining a war in the Middle East harm Kier Starmer — or help him?
This FOl enquiry for the Guardian has taken up a great deal of my life for the past 2 years. (1/3)
Two former presidents felt compelled to comment publicly
What happened to the Second Amendment?
This appears to show an agent removing Alex Pretti’s legally-held gun seconds BEFORE other agents shot him.
The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred.
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
The U.S. government assesses that about 75 people were killed during the military raid to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Officials said the fatalities include Venezuelan and Cuban security forces as well as civilians caught in the fray. https://wapo.st/3YtkDIM
The NATO Paradox: its promise of collective defence for member states encouraged individual member states to neglect their own national security, believing that the NATO defensive umbrella was sufficient — and guaranteed. They assumed that the US was strategically immutable.
On today’s BBC Radio 4 Sunday programme:
The Presbyterian Church in Ireland’s worsening crisis over safeguarding
The Supreme Court rules that RE in Northern Ireland is unlawful
Pope Leo at the movies
And the UK’s Favourite School Hymn
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Counting is under way in Presidential Election.
Ballot boxes have been opened across 32 count centres, with early tallies expected later this afternoon.
Follow our liveblog for updates, reaction, and results throughout the day
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Nobel Peace Prize goes to:
Venezuela’s opposition leader Maria Corina Machado — for her defense of democracy in the face of a repressive, authoritarian regime.
Amongst those who nominated her: Marco Rubio, the current US Secretary of State (letter sent in Aug 2024).
