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René Priebe/picture alliance via Getty Images (LONDON) — At least one person was killed and several injured when a car drove into a crowd of people in Mannheim, southwestern Germany, on Monday, police said. “According to current findings, a car drove into a group of people in Mannheim city center,” the force said in a […]

Justin Tallis via Getty Images (LONDON) — The Kremlin on Monday said it was “very important” to push President Volodymyr Zelenskyy toward making a peace deal, echoing arguments made by President Donald Trump in Friday’s contentious Oval Office meeting with the Ukrainian leader. “He does not want peace. Someone should make Zelenskyy want peace,” said […]

Chris Furlong/Getty Images (ROME) — Pope Francis “rested well” overnight, his 17th night in Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, the Vatican said on Monday. “The pope rested well all night,” the Holy See, the Vatican’s press office, said in a brief statement. The pope’s clinical condition had on Sunday remained “stable,” the church said. Vatican sources told […]

ABC News LONDON — European leaders will gather in London on Sunday to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, following a tempestuous White House meeting that thrust U.S.-Ukrainian relations further into crisis. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told BBC News on Sunday morning he had agreed with President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron […]

ABC News ROME and LONDON — Pope Francis in a prayer published on Sunday thanked Gemelli Hospital’s doctors and medical staff “for the attention with which they are taking care of me.” The prayer — the pope’s weekly Angelus — was dispatched from the hospital in Rome, where the pope was resting early Sunday after […]

Peter Nicholls – WPA Pool/Getty Images (LONDON) — One day after the meeting between Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump blew up, the Ukrainian president was warmly welcomed by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Zelenskyy was all smiles on Saturday as he was greeted by Starmer outside No. 10 Downing Street, and the pleasantries continued during […]

Fadi Rafiq Assaf, 35, said he has lost dozens of family members since the war began on Oct. 7, 2023. Via ABC News (GAZA) — Fadi Rafiq Assaf, 35, once a businessman who bought and sold clothes, stood amid the rubble of his past life in Beit Lahia in the northern part of the Gaza […]

Nuns and the faithful attend Rosary prayers at St. Peter’s Square on February 28, 2025 in Vatican City, Vatican. The Vatican announced that there would be a recitation of the rosary for Pope Francis’s health, as he remains hospitalized following a respiratory infection. (Photo by Alessandra Benedetti – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images) (ROME) — Pope […]

Candles and messages of healing for Pope Francis are laid at the statue of John Paul II outside the Gemelli hospital where the Pope is hospitalized with pneumonia, in Rome on February 26, 2025. (Photo by ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images) (LONDON and ROME) — Pope Francis suffered a “sudden worsening of his respiratory condition,” […]

Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — With Ukraine’s future in the balance, a high-stakes meeting on Friday between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy devolved into a shouting match. The stunning exchange, before cameras and one unlike any other in the Oval Office in modern times, saw Trump and Vice President JD […]