The Batesville Daily Guard

6 days ago | guardonline.com | Samuel Getachew

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopians marked Easter festivities Sunday with vows to embrace sacrifice, love and peace in a country facing armed conflict and other challenges. During Fasika, as Easter is known, Christians of all denominations — including the majority Orthodox group — come together to celebrate Jesus Christ's death and resurrection.

1 week ago | guardonline.com | Sopheng Cheang |Grant Peck

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday completed a two-day state visit to Cambodia, capping a three-nation tour that included stops in Vietnam and Malaysia at a time when all three Southeast Asian countries are facing economic challenges from U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff proposals. China has been strongly increasing its influence in the region over the past decade, largely by exercising its substantial economic leverage.

1 week ago | guardonline.com | Scott Jones

Last week I wrote about displaying wisdom. True wisdom is characterized by peace. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. [18] Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. [James 3:17-18 NKJV] Today we see a “form” of wisdom that does not lead to peace. James talks about this kind of wisdom too, Where do wars and fights [come] from among you?

2 weeks ago | guardonline.com | Michael R. Sisak |Jennifer Peltz |Ted Shaffrey

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City sightseeing helicopter broke apart in midair Thursday and crashed upside-down into the Hudson River, killing the pilot and a family of five Spanish tourists in the latest U.S. aviation disaster, officials said. The victims included Siemens executive Agustin Escobar, his wife, Mercè Camprubí Montal, a global manager at an energy technology company, and three children, in addition to the pilot, a person briefed on the investigation told The Associated Press.

2 weeks ago | guardonline.com | Susan Haigh

A New York jury on Wednesday awarded $1.68 billion in damages to 40 women who accused writer and director James Toback of sexual abuse and other crimes over a span of 35 years, according to lawyers representing the plaintiffs. The decision stems from a lawsuit filed in Manhattan in 2022 after New York state instituted a one-year window for people to file lawsuits over sexual assault claims even if they took place decades ago.