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Stories for September 5th 2023

  • Tuesday, September 5th 2023 - 10:11 UTC

    A backward Church or an ideologically combative and confused Pope?

    Pope Francis last week called the US branch of the Church “backward”, accusing right-wing American Catholics of replacing faith with ideology

    By Gwynne Dyer – Javier Milei, who is very likely to be elected president of Argentina in the October election, is fairly frank in his view of Pope Francis, a fellow Argentine. He calls Francis “a Communist turd” and “the representative of the Evil One on Earth”. Even for a ranter like Milei, who ranks very high on the Trump scale of invective, that’s rare praise.

  • Tuesday, September 5th 2023 - 10:00 UTC

    Chancellor Olaf Scholz attempts some German humor

    “Thanks for the well wishes, it looks worse than it is!” Scholz wrote under the picture on his official account. “Excited to see the memes”

    German Chancellor Olaf Scholz released a photo of himself wearing an eye patch on Monday after he fell while jogging. Scholz, an avid jogger, sustained bruises and grazes to the right side of his face.

  • Tuesday, September 5th 2023 - 09:40 UTC

    Peru: Shining Path attack results in 6 people killed

    “My deepest condolences to the families of the four courageous members of the Peruvian army who died in Putis, Ayacucho,” Boluarte said on social networks

    Four Peruvian troops and two members of the Shining Path terrorist group were killed in a gunfight in the department of Ayacucho where a law enforcement patrol was performing “territorial control actions,” it was reported from Lima by the Joint Command of the Armed Forces. Remnants of the Maoist rebel group once focused on overthrowing the government have turned to drug trafficking.

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