By Giselda Vagnoni ROME (Reuters) – Pope Francis, who visited more than 60 countries during his papacy, will make his final journey along the road from Vatican City to the Esquiline, one of the seven hills of Rome, where he wanted to be buried in a last break from tradition. Francis, whose death at the …
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PARIS (Reuters) – European powers told the United States last week which aspects of a potential peace deal between Ukraine and Russia would be non-negotiable for them, ahead of a new round of discussions on Wednesday, France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said. Ukraine, the U.S., France, Britain and Germany held their first joint talks since …
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The body of Pope Francis will be taken to St. Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday morning at 9:00 a.m. (0700 GMT), the Vatican said in a statement. His body is currently laid out in a coffin in the chapel of the Santa Marta residence, where he lived during his 12-year papacy. (Reporting …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Russian forces launched a mass overnight drone attack on Ukraine’s Black Sea port city of Odesa, wounding three people and damaging many apartments, local officials said early on Tuesday. “The enemy targeted a residential area in a densely populated district of Odesa,” Mayor Hennadiy Trukhanov wrote on the Telegram messaging app, sharing pictures …
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(Reuters) – Zurab Tsereteli, a Russian-Georgian sculptor, painter and architect known for his large-scale and sometimes divisive works, has died aged 91, Russian state news agency TASS reported on Tuesday. Rising to prominence in the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s, Tsereteli became known for his monumental projects, and later for his closeness to …
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By Lucila Sigal BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentines long waited for Pope Francis to visit the homeland he left in 2013 to become the head of the Roman Catholic Church. With his death on Monday at the age of 88 after a long illness, those hopes for his return end unrealized. The Vatican announced that …
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WELLINGTON (Reuters) – Minority coalition partner New Zealand First introduced a bill to parliament on Tuesday that if enacted would define women and men by their biology, preventing trans women and men being recognised by law. The populist New Zealand First member’s bill is a longshot to become law as it has to be selected …
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By Joshua McElwee and Crispian Balmer VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, died on Monday after suffering a stroke and cardiac arrest, the Vatican said, ending an often turbulent reign in which he sought to overhaul an ancient and divided institution. He was 88, and had …
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By Alasdair Pal and Lucy Craymer SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese cancelled some of his election campaigning events on Tuesday to mark the death of Pope Francis, while people across the Pacific region mourned his passing. Albanese, educated in Catholic schools, attended a mass at St Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne. “The holy …
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By Andriy Perun LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – Worshippers coming out of a Catholic church service in the Ukrainian city of Lviv on Monday expressed sorrow at the death of Pope Francis, but also lingering hurt that the Roman Catholic pontiff had not taken Ukraine’s side in its war with Russia. The pontiff was quoted as …
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