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Chinese firm aiding Houthi attacks on US vessels, as airstrikes kill 74

The State Department has accused a Chinese firm of directly aiding Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen by providing satellite imagery used to target U.S. and international vessels in the Red Sea.The news comes as U.S. airstrikes targeting an oil port held by Yemen’s Houthi rebels killed 74 people and wounded 171 others on Thursday,…

Pope Francis visits Rome prison during Holy Week

Pope Francis spent Holy Thursday visiting those serving time in a Rome prison.Despite recovering from a bout of pneumonia, Francis met with dozens of inmates at Regina Coeli prison as he kept an Easter season appointment among the less fortunate. Francis offered words of encouragement and gifted inmates with a Rosary…

Trump takes center stage in Canada’s prime minister election debate

President Donald Trump is the greatest challenge Canada is facing, Prime Minister Mark Carney said during a Wednesday night electoral debate with conservative challenger Pierre Poilievre.”This election [is about] the question of who will succeed, and who will face up to Trump,” Carney said in French, according to a Reuters…

Puerto Rico hit with massive island-wide blackout ahead of Easter weekend

A massive island-wide blackout hit Puerto Rico on Wednesday as residents were looking ahead to the Easter weekend. A spokesman for Luma Energy, which oversees the transmission and distribution of power for the U.S. territory, told The Associated Press that all 1.4 million customers were affected, including the main international airport…

UK Supreme Court issues landmark ruling on legal definition of woman

The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom unanimously ruled Wednesday that a woman is someone born biologically female, a move that now excludes transgender women from the legal definition of a woman.Trans women can be excluded from some single-sex spaces and groups under the U.K. Equality Act, the five judges…