Rival factions throughout the Methodist church are considering a divorce, weighing plans to separate the sect in half resulting from an intractable dispute over its present ban on homosexual marriage and LGBT clergy. ...

A busybody US committee for ‘worldwide non secular freedom’ has butted into India’s turmoil over new citizenship guidelines, exposing Washington’s hypocrisy and threatening to derail US makes an attempt to domesticate New Delhi as an ally. ...

CNN reside feed of Democratic presidential debate goes to black in Beijing. Candidates have been requested about China’s human rights document & the mass detention of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang.

Sanctions imposed on some cussed international locations are a greater choice that navy conflicts, Steve Mnuchin claimed, simply because the US rolled out recent penalties towards Iran and EU companies serving to construct a German-Russian pipeline. ...

German automaker Volkswagen (VW), which is the goal of lawsuits in additional than 50 international locations all over the world, is now being charged by Canada’s authorities for faking emissions assessments. ...

Whereas there may be little hope that relations between Washington and Moscow will heat up, the truth that Russian Overseas Minister Sergey Lavrov is assembly along with his US counterpart Mike Pompeo suggests they haven’t frozen over fairly but. ...

Hackers generally known as ‘Evil Corp’ have been charged and sanctioned by the US for allegedly stealing over $ 100 million by way of phishing and malware assaults and being Kremlin spies – although Russia helped US authorities in going after them. ...

Whereas he could also be having fun with a surge within the Iowa polls, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is trending on Twitter for a wholly completely different purpose, after a column entitled ‘Pete Buttigieg Is A Mendacity MF’ went viral. ...

In what has already been dubbed the “finest anti-smoking advert ever,” a Chinese language transplant surgeon has shared a video of his staff eradicating a blackened pair of lungs from a failed organ donor. ...

The ever present “Epstein didn’t kill himself” meme has blue-checks and institution backers quaking of their boots, supposedly out of concern the “far-right” would possibly use this “harmful” conspiracy principle as a recruiting software. ...