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Perth archbishop recalls ‘always smiling’ Pope Francis in private audience

Archbishop Timothy Costelloe, president of the Australian Bishops’ Conference, discusses the late pontiff’s legacy.
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VIDEO: Perth archbishop recalls ‘always smiling’ Pope Francis in private audience
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6.3 magnitude earthquake in the Pacific Ocean rattles Ecuador

A strong 6.3 earthquake off Ecuador’s Pacific coast has shaken the northern part of the country Friday, with some initial reports of some damages to houses
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Dominican Republic under fire over pregnant and breastfeeding women deported to Haiti

The United Nations and human rights activists are warning about an increase in pregnant women being deported from the Dominican Republic to Haiti where they say their lives are being put at risk
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Brazil's former President Fernando Collor arrested after corruption conviction

Brazil’s former President Fernando Collor was arrested early on Friday in the northeastern state of Alagoas and ordered to begin serving a prison sentence stemming from his 2023 conviction for corruption
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1 killed and 2 injured as driver loses control during a parade in an Italian town

A man has been killed and two people injured when a driver lost control of his car in Italy’s central town of Lanciano during celebrations for Italy’s 80th Liberation Day
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People take part in a ceremony to mark Liberation Day in Turin, Italy, Friday, April 25, 2025. (Alberto Gandolfo/LaPresse via AP)
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Here's why a flare-up between India and Pakistan over Kashmir matters

India and Pakistan have intensified their hostilities over the hotly contested Kashmir region following a massacre of 26 mostly Indian tourists, which New Delhi linked to Pakistan
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Muslims shout slogans after Friday prayers during a protest against the killing of tourists by militants near Pahalgam in Indian controlled Kashmir, in Guwahati, India, Friday, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
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Car bomb kills senior Russian general in Moscow: Officials

Investigators are now at the site of the explosion, Russian officials confirmed.
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Pope Francis' funeral: Who will attend, how to watch

Francis' funeral will take place on Saturday, April 26, at 4 a.m. ET.
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Pope Francis smiles at the faithful from the Popemobile in Santiago, Jan. 15, 2018.
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Malnutrition in Gaza worsens as Israeli blockade of supplies passes 50-day mark

People in Gaza face a crisis of starvation, disease and despair, UN agency says.
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Palestinians line up for a free meal in BeitLahia, Gaza Strip, Palestine on April 24, 2025. Photo by Ramez Habboub/Abaca/Sipa USA(Sipa via AP Images)
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After cycling to France, Serbia's protesting students run to Brussels to stir EU attention

After cycling all the way to France, Serbia’s protesting students have embarked on a new endeavor — a 1,200-mile run to Brussels aimed at drawing European Union attention to their months-long struggle against corruption and for the rule of law in the B...
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Serbia's protesting students embark on 2,000-kilometer (1,200-mile) run to Brussels aimed to draw European Union attention to their months-long struggle against corruption and for the rule of law in Novi Sad, Serbia, Friday, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
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What exactly is the conclave? Here's what to know about how the next pope is elected

The process is a mix of tradition, pageantry and practical necessity.
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Cardinals hold their berretta square caps on their knees on October 5, 2019 at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican.
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Nepal marks 10-year anniversary of earthquake that killed thousands

Nepal marked the 10th anniversary of the devastating 2015 earthquake with a memorial service attended by top officials who pledged to be better prepared to face future disasters
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FILE — In this April 26, 2015 file photo, Nepalese people look at a cracked road after an earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha, File)
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Australian prime minister condemns anti-Indigenous rights protests during war dead commemorations

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has condemned anti-Indigenous rights protesters who disrupted two Anzac Day dawn services as hundreds of thousands gathered across the nation to commemorate their war dead
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FILE - Jacob Hersant speaks outside the Melbourne Magistrates' Court in Melbourne, Australia, on Nov. 8, 2024, before his is sentenced after he was convicted for performing the Nazi salute. (AP Photo/Rod McGuirk, FILE)
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Syria's new foreign minister to appear at the UN in his first US visit

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani is set to raise his country’s new flag at the United Nations headquarters in New York and to attend a U.N. Security Council briefing
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FILE - Syria's Foreign Minister Asaad Al-Shibani arrives for the International Conference on Syria at the Ministerial Conference Center, in Paris, France, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. (Bertrand Guay, Pool Photo via AP, file)
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Ukraine says Russia kills 3 in another drone attack after Trump rebukes Putin

Officials say a Russian drone has struck an apartment building in a southeastern Ukraine city, killing three people and injuring 10 others
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U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff attends the talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Friday, April 25, 2025. (Kristina Kormilitsyna, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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Indian officials say troops exchanged fire with Pakistani soldiers in Kashmir

Indian officials said the army had a brief exchange of fire with Pakistani soldiers along their highly militarized frontier in the Himalayan region of Kashmir, as the nuclear-armed rivals ramped up tit-for-tat diplomatic offensive following a deadly at...
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Muslims shout slogans after Friday prayers during a protest organized by Raza Academy against the killing of tourists by militants near Pahalgam in Indian controlled Kashmir in Mumbai, India, Friday, April. 25, 2025.(AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)
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Negotiations between Iran, US over Tehran's nuclear program return to secluded Oman

Negotiations between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program will return Saturday to the secluded sultanate of Oman
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This combo shows Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, left, pictured in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025 and Steve Witkoff, right, White House special envoy, pictured in Washington, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photos Stringer, Mark Schiefelbein)
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Princess Anne joins solemn ceremony in Turkey marking 110th anniversary of WWI battle

Britain’s Princess Anne joined a dawn ceremony near the World War I battlefields on Turkey’s Gallipoli Peninsula to remember the Australian and New Zealand soldiers who lost their lives in an ill-fated battle 110 years ago
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Attendees wait for the start of the "Spirit of Place" ceremony and dawn memorial service at the Anzac Cove beach, the site of the April 25, 1915, World War I landing of the ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) on the Gallipoli peninsula, near Canakkale, Turkey, early Friday, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)
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Catholics remember Pope Francis as a friend of Africa, with some setting theology aside

Pope Francis visited a record 10 African countries throughout his pontificate, often venturing to areas ravaged by war, poverty or natural disaster
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FILE - Donkeys pull a cart past workers handing a poster of Pope Francis in preparation for his visit in Antananarivo, Madagascar, Sept. 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Alexander Joe, File)
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A Thai police plane crashes in the sea, killing at least 5 on board

Thai officials say that a small police plane crashed into the sea near a popular beach town, killing at least five people on board and leaving one in critical condition
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In this photo provided by the Royal Thai Police, a small police plane is seen crashed into the sea, killing multiple people on board, in Prachuab Kiri Khan province, western of Thailand, Friday, April 25, 2025. (Royal Thai Police via AP)
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Trump and Zelenskyy among dignitaries converging on Rome for funeral of Pope Francis

Heads of state and royalty will begin converging on Rome for Pope Francis’ funeral in the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Square, but the group of poor people who will meet his casket in a small crosstown basilica are more in keeping with Francis’ humble persona...
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Cardinal Baldassare Reina, center, leads a prayer for Pope Francis, at the St. John Lateran Basilica in Rome, Thursday, April 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
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Australians and New Zealanders commemorate war dead on Anzac Day

Hundreds of thousands of people have gathered across Australia and New Zealand for dawn services and street marches to commemorate their war dead on Anzac Day
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Cadets carrying Australian flags march past thousands of people lining the street to pay tribute to their war dead during the Anzac Day parade in Sydney, Australia, Friday, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
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Pope Francis' ordinary shoes bring pride to his Argentine neighborhood — and his cobbler

The man who would become Pope Francis always bought his shoes in the same place
April 24
A woman prays by a statue of Jesus at the Basilica de San Jose de Flores, where the future Pope Francis, known as Jorge Bergoglio, first realized his calling to become a priest at age 17, in the Flores neighborhood where he grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, April 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
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'Vladimir, STOP!' Trump says after deadliest Russian strike on Kyiv in months

At least 12 people were killed and over 100 were injured, officials said.
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A residential building heavily damaged after a Russian strike in a residential neighborhood in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 24, 2025.
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Amsterdam mayor apologizes for the city’s role in the Holocaust

The mayor of Amsterdam has apologized for the role the Dutch capital played in the persecution of its Jewish citizens during World War II
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FILE - Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema attends a ceremony at the Portuguese Synagogue marking the opening of the new National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Sunday, March 10, 2024. (Bart Maat/Pool Photo via AP, File)
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More than 1,800 migrants expelled from Algeria into Niger, rights group says

Algeria is rounding up migrants and dumping them across the border with Niger, according to a regional migrant rights group
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FILE - A young migrant who has been expelled from Algeria sits in a transit center in Arlit, Niger on Friday, June 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)
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About 61,000 visit St. Peter's Basilica to view Pope Francis lying in state

Father Eamon Kelly, vice director of the Magdala Institute, discussed the crowds visiting St. Peter’s Basilica to pay their respects to Pope Francis.
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VIDEO: About 61,000 visit St. Peter's Basilica to view Pope Francis lying in state
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Namibia's new president announces free university education starting in 2026

New Namibian President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has announced that her government will introduce free education at state universities and technical colleges starting next year
April 24
FILE - Namibian President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah addresses a news conference in Windhoek, Namibia, Dec. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Dirk Heinrich, file)
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Brazil former President Bolsonaro's health has worsened, doctors say

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s health condition has worsened following bowel surgery nearly two weeks ago, his doctors say
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FILE - Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro talks with supporters during his arrival to the international airport in Brasilia, Brazil, July 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)
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New details revealed about Pope Francis’ funeral

ABC News contributor Father John Martin discusses the upcoming funeral and election for a new pope.
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VIDEO: New details revealed about Pope Francis’ funeral
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Russian strike on Kyiv is ‘very bad timing,’ Trump says

ABC News’ Tom Soufi Burridge and Shannon Kingston report on the White House’s reaction to the overnight strike that killed at least 12 people and injured dozens more.
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VIDEO: Russian strike on Kyiv is ‘very bad timing,’ Trump says
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Lebanon gets $250 million World Bank loan to ease electricity crisis

The World Bank has given Lebanon a $250 million loan to help ease electricity cuts in the crisis-hit country
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Iran arrests 4 state TV staff for insulting Sunni caliph in rare move

Iranian authorities have arrested four staff members of state TV, accusing them of insulting the first caliph of Sunni Muslims and close ally of the Prophet Muhammad, state TV reported
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Polish and Israeli presidents lead March of the Living at Auschwitz

The Polish and Israeli presidents have joined thousands of Israeli youth and others in an annual march at the former Auschwitz death camp on Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day
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People attend the "March of the Living", the annual Holocaust remembrance event in memory of the six million Holocaust victims, at the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, Thursday, April 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
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Viewing Pope Francis lie in state was ‘extraordinary’

Professor Anna Rowlands discusses the mourners who have gathered on St. Peter’s Basilica to honor the late pontiff.
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VIDEO: Viewing Pope Francis lie in state was ‘extraordinary’
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'Vladimir, STOP!' Trump says after deadliest Russian strike on Kyiv in months

ABC News contributor Mick Mulroy discusses what the overnight Russian attack could mean for a ceasefire deal.
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VIDEO: 'Vladimir, STOP!' Trump says after deadliest Russian strike on Kyiv in months
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Police shooting outside terminal of Toronto's main airport cuts off morning traffic

Authorities say a shooting involving a police officer outside Toronto’s Pearson International Airport cut off traffic heading to Terminal 1
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Evidence markers are placed at the scene of a police-involved shooting at the departures area of terminal 1 at Toronto Pearson International Airport, in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, Thursday, April 24, 2025. (Arlyn McAdorey/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Gangs in Haiti kill 4 soldiers, 4 civilians in bid to seize full control of capital

A spokesman for Haiti's National Police says gangs trying to seize full control of Haiti have killed at least four soldiers and four armed civilians
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FILE - A soldier carries out an anti-gang operation in the Kenscoff neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph, File)
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India and Pakistan again teeter on the brink of conflict over Kashmir. Here's why

A deadly attack on tourists in Indian-controlled Kashmir has again moved India and Pakistan closer to war
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Kashmiri men hold candles and placards as they condemn the tourists killing during a protest in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, April. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
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Pakistan cancels visas for Indian nationals, suspends trade, closes airspace following deadly Kashmir attack

Pakistan cancels visas for Indian nationals, suspends trade, closes airspace following deadly Kashmir attack
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China says there are no negotiations with the US over tariffs

China has denied U_S_ President Donald Trump’s assertion that the two sides were involved in active negotiations over tariffs, saying that any suggestion of progress in this matter was as groundless as “trying to catch the wind.”
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FILE - The American and Chinese flags wave at Genting Snow Park ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Feb. 2, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)
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Istanbul residents spend the night outdoors after a strong earthquake and aftershocks

Many Istanbul residents have spent the night outdoors, too fearful to return to their homes, following a strong earthquake and over 180 aftershocks
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Locals collect food in a distribution point as they camp outdoors following an earthquake in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, April 23, 2025. (Omer Yildiz/Dia Photo via AP)
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Zelenskyy says he's cutting short South Africa visit after Russian attacks on Kyiv

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he is cutting short an official visit to South Africa because of a major Russian attack on Kyiv overnight
April 24
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters after signing executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, April 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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UAE offers portable desalination plants to cover arid Cyprus' water needs

Cyprus officials say the east Mediterranean island nation will receive free-of-charge portable desalination plants from the United Arab Emirates to cover its water needs this summer as reservoir deposits are nearly depleted
April 24
A couple of tourists enjoy the sun and the sea during a hot day with unusually high temperatures for the season, in the southern coastal city of Larnaca on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, Friday, March 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
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Kenyan president vows closer ties to China during visit amid Trump's trade war

Kenyan President William Ruto pledged to build closer ties with China on Thursday, a day after saying a global trade war triggered by Washington could deal a “death blow” to the current world order
April 24
Chinese honor guards march during a welcome ceremony attended by China's President Xi Jinping and Kenyan President William Ruto at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Thursday, April 24, 2025. (Iori Sagisawa/Pool Photo via AP)
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Tensions escalate between India and Pakistan following attack in disputed Kashmir

Tensions between arch rivals India and Pakistan were high on Thursday as New Delhi mounted a diplomatic offensive against Islamabad, blaming it for a deadly attack that killed 26 people, mostly tourists, in disputed Kashmir
April 24
Indian paramilitary soldiers patrol a busy market in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, April 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
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South Korean truth commission halts probe into adoption fraud

The South Korean government’s fact-finding commission has suspended its groundbreaking investigation into the extensive fraud and abuse that tainted the nation’s historic foreign adoption program, stemming from internal disputes among commissioners abo...
April 24
Peter Møller, left, Boonyoung Han, second from left, co-founders of the Danish Korea Rights Group, and adoptee Yooree Kim, second from right, attend a press conference at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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South Korea's former President Moon indicted for alleged bribery

South Korean prosecutors indicted former liberal President Moon Jae-in on bribery charges Thursday, saying that a budget airline gave his son-in-law a lucrative no-show job during Moon’s term in office
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FILE - Then-South Korean President Moon Jae-in speaks during a meeting of the National Security Council at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, on Feb. 22, 2022. (Ahn Jung-hwan/Yonhap via AP, File)
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Trump's trade war and annexation threats have upended Canada's election

U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war and annexation threats have upended Canada’s election and dramatically improved the fortunes of the Liberal Party, which could win a fourth consecutive term in power next week
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FILE - Mark Carney, Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, embraces Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after being announced the winner at the Liberal Leadership Event in Ottawa, Ontario, March 9, 2025. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP, File)