Authorities in Ukraine say Russian drones battered the port city of Odesa and glide bombs hit Zaporizhzhia on Tuesday. The Kremlin again is warning that negotiators are unlikely to obtain a swift …
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By ILLIA NOVIKOV
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4/22/25
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A panel of Brazil’s Supreme Court justices have started proceedings to determine whether federal officers, retired military officers and an aide of former President Jair Bolsonaro will also stand …
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By GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA
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4/22/25
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Georgian-Russian sculptor Zurab Tsereteli, known for his gigantic and controversial work, dies at 91
Zurab Tsereteli, a prominent Georgian and Russian sculptor known for colossal, often controversial, monuments, has died at 91. His assistant Sergei Shagulashvili told Russia’s state news agency …
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4/22/25
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Hundreds of people packed into a Barcelona church to mourn a Spanish family of five who died earlier this month in a sightseeing helicopter crash in New York City. Mourners gathered and wept quietly …
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By JOSEPH WILSON and SUMAN NAISHADHAM
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4/22/25
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Pope Francis never set foot in his native Argentina during his papacy. That left many of the faithful in his homeland feeling puzzled and snubbed by the world’s first Latin American pope. Analysts …
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By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA and ISABEL DEBRE
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4/22/25
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Many are feared to have died after gunmen indiscriminately fired at tourists in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Police described Tuesday's incident as a “terror attack" and blame militants fighting …
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By AIJAZ HUSSAIN
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4/22/25
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Israeli police are looking for a swimmer who they fear was attacked by a shark. A shiver of endangered sharks has been swimming close to Israel’s Mediterranean Sea shore for years, attracting …
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By ARIEL SCHALIT and TIA GOLDENBERG
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4/22/25
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Australians have begun voting at general elections as campaigning is overshadowed by the death of Pope Francis. Polling stations opened Tuesday to voters who for a variety of reasons will be unable …
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By ROD McGUIRK
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4/22/25
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In his landmark 2015 encyclical “Praised Be,” Pope Francis cast care for the planet as an urgent and existential moral concern. The document accused the “structurally perverse,” profit-driven …
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By NICOLE WINFIELD
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4/22/25
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The death of Pope Francis has sent shockwaves through Iraq’s Christian community, where his presence once brought hope after one of the darkest chapters in the country’s recent history. His 2021 …
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By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and STELLA MARTANY
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4/22/25
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Cardinals are meeting at the Vatican to make the first decisions about running the Catholic Church following the death of Pope Francis. They need to decide when Francis' body will be moved into St. …
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By NICOLE WINFIELD and COLLEEN BARRY
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4/22/25
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Eighty years after the Holocaust, more than 200,000 Jewish survivors are still alive, but according to a study 70% of them will be gone within the next 10 years. Currently, the survivors’ median …
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By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER
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4/22/25
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Negotiations between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program will move Wednesday to what’s known as the “expert level” — a sign analysts say shows that …
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By JON GAMBRELL
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4/22/25
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Every pope has his critics. But Pope Francis’ conservative opponents were unique in that they actually had a living alternate as a point of reference. Pope Benedict XVI lived as a pope emeritus in …
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By NICOLE WINFIELD
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4/22/25
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A Sudanese activist group says the notorious paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have attacked a city in the western Darfur region, killing more than 30 people. It says the RSF attack on el-Fasher, the …
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BY SAMY MAGDY
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4/21/25
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The top U.N. official in Haiti is sounding an alarm to the U.N. Security Council that escalating gang violence is liable to lead the Caribbean nation to “a point of no return.” María Isabel …
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By EDITH M. LEDERER
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4/21/25
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The main Palestinian rescue service in Gaza has condemned Israel’s probe into the killings of 15 medical workers last month, calling it a “fabricated investigation.” The army announced the …
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4/21/25
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Thousands of allied American and Filipino forces have opened annual combat drills that will include simulating the defense of the Philippine archipelago and seas in a battle scenario that has …
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By JIM GOMEZ
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4/21/25
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Even though cardinals don’t campaign for the job, there are always front-runners going into a conclave to choose the next pope. These candidates, known as “papabile,” have what are regarded to …
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4/21/25
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Pope Francis died on Easter Monday at the age of 88. Francis' death was announced by Cardinal Kevin Farrell. The Irish-born Vatican camerlengo's position will be important in the election of the next …
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By VANESSA GERA and NICOLE WINFIELD
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4/21/25
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