Bethlehem

As a Cardinal is turned away in Jerusalem, a defiant Pope Leo XIV in Rome denounces the holy war rhetoric currently steering Washington's foreign policy.

A poll this week found two thirds of Estonians considering leaving, as births near historic lows and Russia remains the neighbour nobody forgets.

Germany's AfD are now turning their backs on allying with Trump, as his adventurism abroad in Iran is causing a national rethink on American militarism.

A sitting US president runs an active war from his Florida golf estate while his Scottish resort solicits bookings from tourists fleeing his Gulf battleground.

Macron opened a 9,000-year Byblos exhibition in Paris on Monday while Israeli strikes hit the Lebanese Christian heartland of Kesrouan for the first time.