内容摘要：Leo, the former US Cardinal Robert Prevost, was a relative unknown on the global stage, before he was elected pontiff, who spent most of his career as a missionary in Peru before serving as a senior Vatican official.

Leo, the former US Cardinal Robert Prevost, was a relative unknown on the global stage, before he was elected pontiff, who spent most of his career as a missionary in Peru before serving as a senior Vatican official.

“Because of the domestic turmoil with China’s senior military, they perhaps don’t want to, or the PLA itself feels that it’s not in a position to send somebody senior,” Chong told Al Jazeera.Announcing Dong’s absence at a news conference before the summit, Chinese military spokesperson Senior Colonel Zhang Xiaogang maintained that communication channels were still open between defence officials in Washington and Beijing.

“China places great importance on US-China military ties, and is open to communication at different levels,” Zhang said.The billionaire’s exit from DOGE throws the panel’s future into uncertainty, but Musk says he will remain an ‘adviser’.United States President Donald Trump has bid goodbye to Elon Musk at a White House event marking the billionaire’s

from his role in government.Speaking from the Oval Office on Friday, Trump showered Musk with praise for his work as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an initiative to reduce federal bureaucracy and spending.

“ I just want to say that Elon has worked tirelessly helping lead the most sweeping and consequential government reform programme in generations,” Trump said.

He credited Musk with delivering “a colossal change in the old ways of doing business in Washington” and called Musk’s service “without comparison in modern history”.Between 1904 and 1908, at least 60,000 Herero and 10,000 Nama people were killed, many at German-run concentration camps, although some estimates put the death toll higher.

Hundreds of Herero and Nama were also beheaded after being killed, with their skulls brought back to Germany for “scientific” experiments meant to prove racial superiority.Since 2008, Namibian officials have demanded the bones be returned. Germany has complied, with ceremonial transfers in 2011 and 2018.

Speaking to Al Jazeera, Israel Kaunatjike, a Herero activist who spearheaded the initiative “No Amnesty on Genocide”, called it a “scandal” that no official memorial of the genocide has been held since Namibia gained independence from South Africa’s control in 1990.“It is very, very important for us today to celebrate, to remember those who lost their lives,” said Kaunatjike, who noted May 28 marked the day in 1908 the concentration camps were closed in then-German South West Africa.