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Pope Francis met at the hospital with Vatican No. 2, took major governing decisions
The Vatican says Pope Francis is still hospitalized in critical condition with double pneumonia. But he was well enough to meet with the Vatican secretary of state and his deputy to approve new decrees for saints and call a formal meeting to set the dates for their canonization. 
5 signs that a U.S.-Europe split is widening
As the Trump administration ramps up its rhetoric against Ukraine and NATO, European countries are taking note — with increasing alarm.
In 3 years of war in Ukraine, Minnesota doctor has given prosthetics to 500 Ukrainians
The Protez Foundation, based in Oakdale, has flown in Ukrainian soldiers and civilians who have lost limbs and fitted them with free prosthetics. Since the war began, it has also opened clinics in Ukraine to meet demand.
3 years on, here’s what to keep an eye on in the Ukraine war — and efforts to end it
Thousands of civilians have been killed since Russia launched its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022. Amid a stark shift in U.S. policy, Ukrainians want the war to end — but not on Russia’s terms.
Pope Francis shows slight improvement in the hospital and calls Gaza‘s parish
The health crisis facing the pontiff, who was elected pope in 2013, has led to his absence from some regular Vatican appearances and drawn groups of Catholic worshippers to St. Peter’s Square to pray for his recovery.
Zelenskyy says progress made on reaching an agreement with the U.S. on rare minerals deal
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says a contentious U.S. proposal that would have seen $500 billion worth of profits from Ukrainian rare minerals given to the United States as compensation for its wartime assistance to Kyiv has been taken off the table. 
How one community in Chile is blessed and cursed with lithium
Chile is the world's second-largest lithium producer. It has been a welcome boon to the economy, but local community members consider it a disaster.
Hundreds of thousands attend the funeral of Hezbollah leader Nasrallah 5 months after his killing
Hundreds of thousands of people have packed into a stadium in Beirut and the streets outside for the funeral of Hezbollah’s leader, nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a southern suburb of the capital.