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Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images (VATICAN CITY) — Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff for the Roman Catholic Church, will lead his inaugural mass on Sunday, according to the Vatican. The mass, called the Holy Mass for the Beginning of the Pontificate, will begin in Vatican City on Sunday at 10 a.m. local […]

Handout photo by Arda Kucukkaya/Turkish Foreign Ministry via Getty Images (LONDON) — Russia and Ukraine agreed to a prisoner exchange during peace talks in Turkey on Friday, which were led by a U.S. delegation headed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The two sides will conduct a 1,000 for 1,000 person prisoner exchange at a yet-to-be […]

Handout photo by Arda Kucukkaya/Turkish Foreign Ministry via Getty Images (LONDON) — The meeting between the U.S. delegation headed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Ukraine and Russia are set to take place in Turkey on Friday following a day of confusion on Thursday. Notably absent from the talks, however, are Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is in […]

Vladimir Putin & Donald Trump at G20 Osaka Summit 2019/ Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images (LONDON )– Ukrainian and Russian representatives will meet in Istanbul, Turkey, on Thursday, for their first meeting since the opening weeks of Moscow’s 3-year-old invasion of its neighbor. Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend Thursday’s talks, despite an invitation from Ukrainian […]

Aaron M. Sprecher/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Venezuelan 2-year-old who was kept in U.S. government custody after her parents were deported has been returned to Venezuela. In a video posted to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s YouTube page, Maduro is seen greeting the toddler upon the toddler’s return. The toddler, Maikelys Antonella Espinoza, is seen in […]

Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images (LONDON) — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi reacted to President Donald Trump’s remarks about Iran, calling them “pure deception.” Trump described Tehran as the “most destructive force” in the region during a speech on Tuesday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and accused Iranian leaders of being “focused on stealing their people’s […]

Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images (LONDON) — The Israel Defense Forces issued evacuation warnings for three ports in Houthi-controlled Yemen after intercepting two of three ballistic missiles fired by the Iran-backed group in the past 24 hours. The IDF said one Houthi missile misfired on Tuesday. The IDF said in a post to X that the third missile launched […]

Contributor/Getty Images (LONDON) — Moscow on Wednesday said it would send a delegation to Istanbul to meet with Ukrainian officials, potentially bringing diplomats from the two at-war countries together for the first known in-person direct talks in more than three years. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov confirmed on Wednesday that Russian diplomats would travel to Turkey, […]

Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Carbon dioxide may be a naturally occurring substance on Earth, but too much of its presence has contributed to global warming, climate scientists say. Carbon dioxide, known by the chemical formula CO2, is a gas produced by various natural processes, including respiration in animals and plants, volcanic eruptions, […]

(FRY, GREECE) — A 6.1 magnitude earthquake was reported near Greece early Wednesday local time, according to the United States Geological Survey. Greek Emergency Management warned of a possible tsunami risk following the quake, which the agency reported as occurring nearly 30 miles southeast of Kasos as a 5.9 magnitude earthquake. “Move away from the […]