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Pope Leo XIV visits Lourdes after giant Paris mass to meet clergy sexual abuse victims
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Pope Leo XIV visits Lourdes after giant Paris mass to meet clergy sexual abuse victims

After two days in Paris where he drew hundreds of thousands of worshippers, Pope Leo XIV will continue his visit to France on Sunday in the southwestern pilgrimage town of Lourdes with a private meeting with victims of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church. Leo's four-day trip is the first official papal visit to France in nearly two decades.

Pope prays at Lourdes after huge Paris mass
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Pope prays at Lourdes after huge Paris mass

Pope Leo XIV prayed for France on Saturday at its holy shrine in Lourdes, after riding along the Champs Elysees in the popemobile and holding an emotional open-air mass in front of hundreds of thousands of worshippers in Paris.

Zinédine Zidane kicks off first match with slender victory in Turkey

Zinédine Zidane kicks off first match with slender victory in Turkey

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Zinédine Zidane oversaw a 1-0 victory in Turkey in his first match in charge of Les Bleus, with Kylian Mbappé scoring the only goal of the game in the second half. The France captain went off injured soon after and will miss the team's next three Nations League fixtures. 

Morocco’s Authenticity and Modernity Party wins parliamentary election

Morocco’s Authenticity and Modernity Party wins parliamentary election

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Morocco’s Authenticity and Modernity Party won the most seats in the country’s parliamentary election, taking 97 of 395 seats in the House of Representatives, according to final results announced by the Interior Ministry on Friday. The party, founded by a royal adviser close to King Mohammed VI and known by its French acronym PAM, fell short of an absolute majority and will need to negotiate with ...

Middle East: Iran proposes Hormuz plan, Donald Trump reportedly refuses

Middle East: Iran proposes Hormuz plan, Donald Trump reportedly refuses

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The United States had yet to publicly respond on Saturday after Iran offered a plan to reopen the strategic Strait of Hormuz, though reports indicated that President Donald Trump had rejected the proposal. The waterway key to the world's oil supply is central to the conflict between the US and Iran, which is at a stalemate after nearly seven months, though new mediation efforts took place this wee...

Middle-East: Iran proposes Hormuz plan, Donald Trump reportedly refuses

Middle-East: Iran proposes Hormuz plan, Donald Trump reportedly refuses

France 24 •

The United States had yet to publicly respond on Saturday after Iran offered a plan to reopen the strategic Strait of Hormuz, though reports indicated that President Donald Trump had rejected the proposal. The waterway key to the world's oil supply is central to the conflict between the US and Iran, which is at a stalemate after nearly seven months, though new mediation efforts took place this wee...

Heavy fighting on multiple fronts between Ethiopian forces and rebel groups

Heavy fighting on multiple fronts between Ethiopian forces and rebel groups

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Fighting appears to be worsening in Ethiopia after the TPLF said it was in a "full blown" blown war with federal forces this week, days after the Tigrayan rebels declared a coalition with six other armed groups across the country, all with the objective of overthrowing prime minister abiy ahmed's government. And as of friday, it appears that another armed group has claimed to have joined the allia...

France: Pope says 'authentic secularity' does not exclude religion

France: Pope says 'authentic secularity' does not exclude religion

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Pope Leo XIV said on a visit to France on Friday that "authentic secularity" should not exclude religion, in a country where law has for more than a century separated church and state. "An authentic secularity, then, consists not in excluding religion from the public sphere or from education, but in striving to ensure that the state and religious institutions maintain dialogue and join forces in t...

Rogue AI accessed federal websites, posted user images online, ChatGPT says

Rogue AI accessed federal websites, posted user images online, ChatGPT says

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ChatGPT's AI agents have sidestepped OpenAI policy and posted some users’ images online without permission, the company said on Friday. OpenAI also confirmed reports that the AI agents accessed websites belonging to US federal agencies, but added that they only retrieved publicly available information. 

Israelis, Palestinians must 'reboot relations': Absence of diplomatic route means 'perpetual war'

Israelis, Palestinians must 'reboot relations': Absence of diplomatic route means 'perpetual war'

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Mark Owen is pleased to welcome Yossi Mekelberg, Senior Consulting Fellow of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House. Can Israel continue to define its future primarily through security and territorial control? Mekelberg challenges the notion that military operations, incursions and settlement expansion can constitute a sustainable political objective. He identifies a potential...