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News Articles: World

Balloons depicting Pope Francis are laid at the statue of John Paul II outside the Gemelli hospital where Pope Francis is hospitalized, in Rome on Feb. 24, 2025. Pope Francis, in critical condition in hospital with pneumonia, had a good night and was resting, the Vatican said Monday.

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Pope rests in his 10th day of hospitalization but remains in critical condition

Francis, 88, had remained in critical condition throughout the weekend after severe breathing difficulties were reported.

February 24, 2025
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  • Ruth Sherlock,
  • Willem Marx,
  • and 1 more
President Trump returns to the White House on Feb. 19 after spending the weekend and the first two days of the week in Florida.

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Macron, Trump to discuss Ukraine peace plan. And, Greenpeace faces $300 million lawsuit

French President Emmanuel Macron is set to present the European peace plan for Ukraine to President Trump today. And, Greenpeace faces a lawsuit that could shut it down.

February 24, 2025
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By:
  • Brittney Melton
A rescue team gathers in front of a damaged residential building in Sumy just after a Russian drone strike that destroyed nine apartments and killed 11 people, Jan. 30.

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  • World

3 years on, here's what to keep an eye on in the Ukraine war — and efforts to end it

Thousands of civilians have been killed since Russia launched its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022. Amid a stark shift in U.S. policy, Ukrainians want the war to end — but not on Russia's terms.

February 24, 2025
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By:
  • Charles Maynes,
  • Joanna Kakissis,
  • and 1 more
Activists hold posters during a women's rights demonstration, Dec. 14, 2024 in Avignon, southern France, where the trial of dozens of men accused of raping Gisèle Pelicot while she was drugged and rendered unconscious by her husband is taking place.

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A French surgeon is on trial accused of raping or abusing 299 people, mostly children

The trial comes as French activists are pushing to lift taboos that surround sexual abuse. The most prominent case was that of Gisèle Pélicot, who was raped by her now ex-husband and dozens of others.

February 24, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Friedrich Merz, the candidate of the mainstream conservative Christian Democratic Union party, gestures while addressing supporters at the party headquarters in Berlin, Germany, on Sunday.

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Center-right opposition wins German election, with the far right coming in 2nd

Conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz won a lackluster victory in a national election Sunday, while the far-right Alternative for Germany doubled its support, projections showed.

February 23, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
A trailer carrying the coffins containing the bodies of Hezbollah's former leader Hassan Nasrallah and his cousin and successor Hashem Safieddine drives through the crowd during a funeral procession at the Sports City Stadium in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025. (

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Huge crowds gather in Lebanon for funeral of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah

Hezbollah held a long-delayed funeral for former leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was assassinated in September in an Israeli airstrike.

February 23, 2025
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By:
  • Jane Arraf
Palestinian families react after Israel delayed the release of Palestinian prisoners, scheduled to be released in the seventh hostage-prisoner exchange, in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah early on February 23, 2025.

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  • Middle East

Israel delays Palestinian prisoner release; moves tanks into West Bank

Israel is delaying the release of Palestinian detainees and prisoners, disrupting the Gaza ceasefire deal, and its military is intensifying an offensive in the occupied West Bank

February 23, 2025
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By:
  • Daniel Estrin and
  • Kat Lonsdorf
The town of Peine, near the Salt flats and one of the closest towns to the lithium mining operations. 13th of April, 2024. Antofagasta, Chile.

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  • Latin America

How one community in Chile is blessed and cursed with lithium

Chile is the world's second-largest lithium producer. It has been a welcome boon to the economy, but local community members consider it a disaster.

February 23, 2025
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  • John Bartlett
Candles are seen near pictures of Pope Francis outside the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, on Sunday, where the Pontiff is hospitalized since Feb. 14.

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  • Religion

Pope Francis rested during a peaceful night following respiratory crisis

Pope Francis, in critical condition with a complicated lung infection, rested well during a peaceful night following a respiratory crisis and blood transfusions, the Vatican said Sunday.

February 23, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
A woman lays a rosary on Saturday near candles adorned with pictures of Pope Francis outside the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic where Pope Francis is battling pneumonia in Rome.

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  • Religion

Pope Francis is in critical condition, the Vatican says

The 88-year-old Francis has been hospitalized for a week with a complex lung infection.

February 22, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Israeli hostages Averu Mengistu (4th-R) and Tal Shoham (L) are flanked by Hamas fighters as they stand on a stage during their release in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday.

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  • Middle East

Hamas releases Israeli hostages, returns remains of Shiri Bibas

Hamas to release the last six live hostages whose freedom they agreed to under the current ceasefire deal.

February 22, 2025
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  • Kat Lonsdorf and
  • Hadeel Al-Shalchi
This handout picture shows (from L) Bahrain's Crown Prince and Prime Minister Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa, Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Meshal al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, Jordan's King Abdullah II, Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Jordan's Crown Prince Hussein and UAE's National Security Advisor Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed al-Nahyan pose for a picture in Riyadh on February 21,…

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  • Middle East

Arab leaders huddle in Saudi Arabia in pushback to Trump's Gaza plans

Leaders from Egypt, Jordan and other Arab states met in Saudi Arabia to discuss alternative plans for Gaza's future than the one laid out by President Trump, which calls for displacing Palestinians.

February 22, 2025
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  • Aya Batrawy
People walk past a truck with an election campaign poster featuring Friedrich Merz, leader of conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), in Oberhausen, Germany, on Feb. 21.

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  • World

Here's what to know about Germany's election this Sunday

An economic slump, an immigration crisis and the lifting of a security blanket provided for decades by the U.S. are issues on the minds of German voters. The far-right AfD is polling in second place.

February 22, 2025
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  • Rob Schmitz
From left, U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud, National Security Advisor Mosaad bin Mohammad al-Aiban, the Russian president's foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov, and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meet in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. Not invited: anyone from Ukraine.

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  • World

Can there be peace in Ukraine, or is Putin just playing for time?

As the Trump administration works toward a halt in the fighting, many experts fear that Ukraine will be forced to accept a ceasefire deal that will only give Russian forces a badly needed breather.

February 21, 2025
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By:
  • Scott Neuman and
  • Joanna Kakissis
A poster shows Shiri Bibas, center, who was kidnapped to Gaza with her husband and two young sons on Oct. 7, 2023, in Jerusalem on Friday.

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  • Middle East

Israel says body returned by Hamas not that of hostage

Israel identified the remains of child hostages but said another body from Hamas was not their mother as claimed. And near Tel Aviv, explosions hit threes buses, but no injuries were reported.

February 21, 2025
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  • Hadeel Al-Shalchi
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