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King Charles becomes the first British royal to pray with pope in nearly 500 years
Britain’s King Charles and Pope Leo XIV prayed together in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel on Thursday, in the first joint worship including an English monarch and a Catholic pontiff since King Henry VIII broke away from Rome in 1534. Source link
EU joins U.S. in heaping more sanctions on Russia to push Putin into Ukraine peace talks
The European Union has agreed on a new raft of sanctions against Russia targeting its shadow fleet of oil tankers and banning its imports of liquefied natural gas, the Danish EU presidency announced Thursday. Source link
EU joins U.S. in heaping more sanctions on Russia to push Putin into Ukraine peace talks
The European Union has agreed on a new raft of sanctions against Russia targeting its shadow fleet of oil tankers and banning its imports of liquefied natural gas, the Danish EU presidency announced Thursday. Source link
Trump's pressure on Venezuela raises spectre of coup or invasion. Either face major hurdles
The buildup of U.S. military forces near Venezuela and a series of deadly attacks on alleged drug-trafficking boats in waters off its coast has raised the spectre of an invasion of the South American country. Yet that still appears unlikely, some experts say, as any military action launched by the Trump administration would face significant […]
NFL stands by Bad Bunny as Super Bowl halftime headliner despite criticism from Trump
The NFL is not considering replacing Bad Bunny as its Super Bowl halftime performer, Commissioner Roger Goodell said Wednesday, reaffirming the decision to put the Grammy-winning Puerto Rican artist on the league’s biggest stage — a decision that’s led to criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump and some of his supporters. Source link
Why French ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy is now in jail | About That
How does a former French president end up behind bars in the isolation wing of a Paris prison? Andrew Chang explains the key charge against Nicolas Sarkozy that led to a criminal conspiracy conviction by breaking down his relationship to Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, and why despite the guilty verdict — he’s currently presumed innocent. […]
Ticketmaster vows crackdown on scalper accounts that buy up most tickets
Ticketmaster, the world’s largest online box office, is promising for the first time to crack down on industrial-scale scalpers to bar them from using hundreds — sometimes thousands — of fake Ticketmaster accounts to buy up and resell tickets for concerts, theatre and sporting events. Source link