By Faith Barbara N Ruhinda updated at 1716 EAT on Monday 28 April 2025 Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced a temporary ceasefire for the war in Ukraine. The Kremlin said the ceasefire would run from the morning of 8 May until 11 May – which coincides with victory celebrations to mark the end of…

By Faith Barbara N Ruhinda updated at 1704 EAT on Monday 28 April 2025 Emily Thorowgood, who’s from Bristol but who works as a teacher in an international school in Lisbon,says she  is currently “teaching in the dark” after the power went off at around noon local time. Lots of parents are taking their children…

By Faith Barbara N Ruhinda updated at 1313 EAT on Friday 25 April 2025 Pope Francis, who died on Easter Monday is breaking with tradition when it comes to where he will be laid to rest – choosing a light-filled basilica instead of the grottoes of the Vatican. Popes are usually buried within Vatican City, beneath St….

By Faith Barbara N Updated at 1252 EAT on   Friday 25 April 2025 One of the scenarios is to give up territory. It’s not fair. But for the peace, temporary peace, maybe it can be a solution, temporary,” he said. But the 53-year-old former boxing champion-turned politician stressed that the Ukrainian people would never accept…

By Faith Barbara N Ruhinda updated at 1832 EAT on Thursday 24 April 2025 Pangolins have two claims to fame: first, that they are the world’s only scaly mammal, and second, they are one of the most trafficked animals globally Beyond that, most people know very little about them. But the new Netflix documentary “Pangolin: Kulu’s…

By Faith Barbara N Ruhinda updated at 1728 EAT on Thursday 24 April 2025 Pope Francis’s funeral will take place at 10:00 local time (09:00 BST) on Saturday. However, he will be the first Pope in more than a century not to be buried in the crypt at the Basilica – he will instead be…

By Faith Barbara N Ruhinda updated at 1712 EAT on Thursday 24 April 2025 This is not the first time that President Trump has issued a verbal warning to President Putin. He previously threatened secondary sanctions in his rush to secure an end to the war in Ukraine. Yet the prevailing wind that comes from…

By Faith Barbara N Ruhinda updated at 1332 EAT on Tuesday 22 April 2025 Beijing has warned its trading partners against succumbing to US pressure to isolate China in President Donald Trump’s tariff war, as part of its carrot-and-stick approach to win over countries caught between the world’s two largest economies. Trump administration’s plans to…