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Pope Leo XIV started the second day of his trip to Turkiye with a visit to Istanbul’s Blue Mosque on Saturday. Leo was following in the footsteps of his recent predecessors, who all made high-profile visits to the mosque in a gesture of respect to Turkiye’s Muslim majority.
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Two oil tankers said to be part of Russia’s “shadow fleet” that were set ablaze off Turkiye’s Black Sea coast may have been hit by mines, drones or missiles, a senior Turkish official said Saturday. Tankers Kairos and Virat were struck in quick succession late Friday afternoon, prompting
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The head of Lebanese militant group Hezbollah said on Friday it retained the right to respond to Israel’s killing days ago of its top military commander and left open the possibility of a new conflict with Israel. Naim Qassem spoke in a televised address as fears grew in Lebanon
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday in Moscow, with Orban saying energy will be on the agenda. Hungary — the Kremlin’s closest ally in the European Union — still depends heavily on Russian gas and oil imports despite sanctions after Moscow invaded Ukraine in
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Muslim-majority Turkiye, which is hosting Pope Leo XIV on his first overseas trip as pontiff, is not “a hostile environment” for Christians, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople told AFP in an interview. “It is simplistic to see adversaries everywhere and to imagine the pope’s visit as taking sides in
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Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, at war with a rival paramilitary group since April 2023, called on US President Donald Trump on Wednesday to bring peace. “The Sudanese people now look to Washington to take the next step: to build on the US president’s honesty and work
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A huge fire still burning in a Hong Kong apartment complex that has killed at least 44 people and left nearly 300 missing may have been spread by unsafe scaffolding and foam materials used during maintenance work, police said on Thursday. Working through the night, firefighters were struggling to reach
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An Afghan national has been accused of shooting two West Virginia National Guard members just blocks from the White House in a brazen act of violence at a time when the presence of troops in the nation’s capital and other cities around the country has become a political flashpoint.
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Russia’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday that European politicians and European media were trying to undermine US efforts to clinch a peace settlement for Ukraine. European media and politicians are trying “to disrupt the possibility of political and diplomatic settlement” of the conflict in Ukraine, Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for
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Pope Leo XIV is embarking on his first foreign trip, a pilgrimage to Turkiye and Lebanon that would be delicate under any circumstances but is even more fraught given Mideast tensions and the media glare that will document history’s first American pope on the road. Leo is fulfilling a
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The Israeli military on Wednesday announced a new “counterterrorism” operation in the north of the occupied West Bank. The military and internal security service said in a joint statement that they “began operating as part of a broad counterterrorism operation in the area of northern Samaria,” using the Israeli biblical
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French authorities Tuesday arrested four more people in the probe into last month’s spectacular daylight theft of imperial jewels from the Louvre museum, the top Paris prosecutor said. “They are two men aged 38 and 39, and two women aged 31 and 40, all from the Paris region,” Laure
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Resurgent jihadist attacks and instability in northern Nigeria are pushing hunger “to levels never seen before,” with thousands facing “famine-like conditions,” the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday. Nearly 35 million people in northern Nigeria are “projected to face severe food insecurity during the 2026 lean season,” which stretches
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A Turkish parliamentary delegation held talks Monday with Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of a Kurdish militant group, as part of an ongoing peace initiative to end a decades-long conflict. The rare meeting with Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, centered on the militant group’s
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Charbel Matar says a Lebanese saint saved his life when he was a child. Now, he is among pilgrims of all faiths who visit Saint Charbel’s tomb, soon to be graced by Pope Leo XIV. “My family and I have great faith in Saint Charbel and always visit him,
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As Pope Leo XIV prepares to embark on his first trip abroad with a visit to Turkiye to mark a key event that shaped the foundations of Catholic and Orthodox Christianity, there has been a surge of renewed optimism over the possible reopening of a Greek Orthodox religious seminary that