World News – Page 1831 – Prologue Journal

Fashion designer for Russian first ladies dies

Washington Post Russia’s most famous fashion designer, Vyacheslav Zaitsev, who dressed the country’s first ladies, has died at the age of 85 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/30/russia-fashion-designer-zaitsev-gorbachev/785a277c-e794-11ed-869e-986dd5713bc8_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Pope voices willingness to return Indigenous loot, artifacts

Washington Post Pope Francis says talks are underway to return artifacts in the Vatican Museum that were acquired from Indigenous peoples in Canada and has voiced a willingness to return other colonial-era objects in the Vatican’s collection on a case-by-case basis https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/30/vatican-restitution-indigenous-parthenon/d3ac4512-e788-11ed-869e-986dd5713bc8_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Official: 148 Somalis evacuated from Sudan via Ethiopia

Washington Post Scores of Somalis fleeing violence in Sudan arrived in their Horn of Africa nation on Sunday, an official said https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/30/somalia-evacuees-sudan-fighting/9d1145a0-e785-11ed-869e-986dd5713bc8_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Pope open to helping return Ukrainian children in Russia

Washington Post Pope Francis says the Vatican is willing to help facilitate the return of Ukrainian children taken to Russia during the war https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/30/vatican-ukraine-children-pope-russia/5db51e54-e785-11ed-869e-986dd5713bc8_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Relatives bury children killed in Russian missile attack

Washington Post Relatives and friends cried next to coffins as they buried children and others killed in a Russian missile attack on the central Ukrainian city of Uman https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/30/ukraine-war-russia-funeral-missiles/9fc94a18-e776-11ed-869e-986dd5713bc8_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Man kills 3, self, in dispute among Portuguese pigeon racers

Washington Post Portuguese police say a man fatally shot three other men before turning the gun on himself https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/30/portugal-pigeon-racers-slain/24b5f6ce-e75c-11ed-869e-986dd5713bc8_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Emergency aid supplies reach Sudan, as fighting sputters on

Washington Post An aircraft carrying eight tons of emergency medical supplies has landed in Sudan to help hospitals devastated by more than two weeks of fighting between forces loyal to rival generals https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/30/sudan-conflict-medical-aid-flight-icrc/9558b65a-e757-11ed-869e-986dd5713bc8_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Pakistan police allege 2 clerics raped boy in seminary

Washington Post Pakistani police say they have arrested two Muslim clerics for allegedly raping a 10-year-old boy in a religious school in eastern Punjab province https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/30/pakistan-boy-raped-seminary-clerics/9df43cfc-e74e-11ed-869e-986dd5713bc8_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world

Blue Check Confusion

New York Times Why Twitter changed its account verifications. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/30/briefing/twitter.html

Brits asked to swear oath to Charles III from the couch, a royal first

Washington Post The public will be invited to join an “homage of the people” for the king in a “great cry” around the world, a new ritual invented for Charles III’s coronation. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/30/coronation-charles-pledge-allegiance-oath/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world