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Sandra Montanez/Getty Images (LONDON) — Millions of people in Spain, Portugal and parts of France lost power on Monday due to an unknown grid issue, the Spanish government confirmed to ABC News. The Spanish government said it called an emergency crisis meeting to fix the situation as soon as possible. Authorities, meanwhile, asked people to […]

Dan Kitwood/Getty Images (ROME and LONDON) — The conclave to replace Pope Francis will begin Wednesday, May 7, the Vatican said on Monday. Cardinals will convene at the Vatican to begin a process of finding a new pope, who will become the Catholic Church’s 267th leader. This is a developing story. Please check back for […]

(LONDON) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced a temporary ceasefire to come into effect during the 80th anniversary commemoration of V Day, which celebrates the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany in 1945. The ceasefire will come into effect on May 8 and end on May 10, the Kremlin announced in a […]

Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images (LONDON) — An American overnight airstrike in Yemen killed at least 68 people at a migrant detention center in the Saada Governorate, according to the country’s Civil Defense organization. Another 47 people were injured in the strike in the city of Saada, in the northwest of the country, the Yemen Civil Defense […]

People gather along the road as the coffin of Pope Francis is transported from Saint Peter’s Basilica to Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica, after the pontiff’s funeral ceremony in St. Peter’s Square, at The Vatican (Marco Ravagli/Future Publishing via Getty Images) (ROME) — Pope Francis was laid to rest Saturday at the Basilica of St. Mary […]

Smoke rises after a massive explosion that ripped through the Shahid Rajaee Port as officials conduct operations on April 26, 2025. More than 500 people have so far been injured in a massive explosion (Photo by Iranian Red Crescent/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images) (LONDON) — Hundreds of people were injured following an explosion at one of […]

(Antonio Masiello/Getty Images) (ROME) — At his funeral, Pope Francis was remembered and venerated as a pontiff with “strength and serenity” who modeled his pontificate on St. Francis of Assisi. The dean of the College of Cardinals, Giovanni Battista Re, delivered the homily in front of some 200,000 mourners in St. Peter’s Square. Here are […]

American Kielce Gussie, who works as a journalist at Vatican News, did the first reading in English — several verses from the Acts of the Apostles — at the funeral of Pope Francis. Image via ABC News. (ROME) — American Kielce Gussie, who works as a journalist at Vatican News, did the first reading in […]

Max Cisotti/Dave Benett/Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — With Pope Francis’s funeral drawing more than 200,000 expected attendees on Saturday, interest in the papal succession process has intensified. It’s driving viewers to the film “Conclave” — based on the Robert Harris novel of the same name. The Oscar-winning 2024 movie, which explores the secretive process […]

Black smoke streamed from the Sistine Chapel’s chimney to signal that cardinals failed to select a new Pope in their first round of voting in Rome, Italy on April 18, 2005. (Eric VANDEVILLE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) (ROME) — There have been 266 popes in the Catholic Church’s roughly 2,000-year history, which spans three millennia. With […]