The Petersburg Post

Sunday, Nov 30th, 2025 - President Trump gave Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro a strongly worded ultimatum as tensions flared with the South American nation — telling him to resign and leave or else, according to a bombshell report. During a call between Trump and Maduro, the socialist president demanded that he be allowed to maintain control of Venezuela's military if he paved the way for free elections there , said ...

Sunday, Nov 30th, 2025 - Authorities in Hong Kong said 18 more human remains have been found after the huge blaze in the eight-apartment Wang Fuk Court estate, bringing the death toll to 146 people. Police and fire authorities held a news conference on Sunday to provide an update on Hong Kong's deadliest fire in more than 75 years, which burned through seven of the residential buildings in the complex over two days before being fully put ...

Sunday, Nov 30th, 2025 - Heavy rainfall has unleashed widespread flooding and landslides across Asia, killing more than 700 people with hundreds still missing. Cyclone-fueled downpours battered parts of Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia this week when a rare tropical storm formed in the Malacca Strait – a narrow waterway separating the Indonesian island of Sumatra from the other two nations. Sri Lanka was struck by a separate storm ...

Sunday, Nov 30th, 2025 - Some residents of the flood-hit Indonesian island of Sumatra have resorted to stealing food and water to survive, authorities said Sunday, while Sri Lankan officials said deaths from floods and mudslides in that island nation have risen to 193. The floods, which hit Indonesia nearly a week ago, have killed 303 people — with the number expected to rise as more bodies are recovered — and displaced ...

Saturday, Nov 29th, 2025 - visited Istanbul's Blue Mosque and celebrated Mass on Saturday on the second day of to Turkey as he stressed the need for Christian unity. Leo was following in the footsteps of his recent predecessors, who all made high-profile visits to the mosque in a gesture of respect to Turkey's Muslim majority. Leo did not pray at the mosque despite an invitation by an imam. After the mosque visit, Leo met with Turkey's ...

Saturday, Nov 29th, 2025 - Fears of days of travel chaos across Europe and the world eased on Saturday after plane manufacturer Airbus intervened rapidly to implement a software upgrade it had said was immediately needed on some 6,000 of its A320 planes. The announcement by Europe's top plane manufacturer late Friday that the planes could not fly again until the switch was made followed an incident in the United States and raised concerns ...