According to the Vatican, over 150,000 people gathered in Rome’s streets to witness the procession that transported the Pope’s body to his final burial place.

That is marginally fewer than the number of persons who attended the burial mass in St. Peter’s Square and the surrounding streets. According to the Vatican, 250,000 people attended the ceremony.

Muslims across the globe are to begin Ramadan on the 1st of March

These remarks were given by Abdullah Al-Khudairi on February 27 and 28, 2025. He declared on February 27 that Saturday, March 1, 2025, would be the first day of Ramadan according to astronomical calculations.
He stated on February 28 that overcast conditions were anticipated,

According to Rwandan authorities, the UK’s decision to halt some funding to the East African nation is “punitive”.

The UK said in a statement that it opposed Rwanda’s backing of the M23, a rebel group that has seized large areas of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo in a bloody insurgency.

Previously denying support for the M23, Rwanda has now taken a more defensive stance, claiming that fighting close to the DR Congo-Rwanda border threatens national security.

The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo reports that since the conflict intensified in January, over 7,000 people have killed and hundreds of thousands have fled their homes.