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For months, Moscow and Pyongyang had been vague about the deployment of North Korean troops in Russia’s war against Ukraine, even after Kyiv publicly paraded two North Korean soldiers its forces had...

In March 2013, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina gave a roughly four-minute speech at one of the closed-door meetings in the Vatican before the conclave to elect the next pope. The...

In Canada’s election, the U.S. is front of mindCanadians are holding parliamentary elections today to determine who will lead their government: the Liberal Party under Prime Minister Mark Carney, a former banker,...

In a solemn and majestic funeral on the steps of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Roman Catholic Church on Saturday laid to rest Pope Francis, the first South American pope, whose simple style,...

A driver plowed into a group of partygoers attending a Filipino street festival in the Canadian city of Vancouver on Saturday evening, killing “a number of people,” according to the local authorities.Vancouver...

Although three of the five popes before Pope Francis have been named saints, merely serving as pontiff is not a shoo-in to canonization. At least not anymore.In the early years of the...

A massive explosion at a port in southern Iran on Saturday killed at least eight people and injured more than 700, according to state media.The exact cause of the blast at the...

Russia’s top military commander said on Saturday that Moscow’s forces had retaken the last village that Ukraine was holding in the Kursk region of western Russia, though Ukrainian officials denied that their...

April 26, 2025, 3:30 a.m. ETDavid E. SangerDavid E. Sanger traveled to Rome with President Bush and former President Bill Clinton for the funeral of John Paul II in 2005. He has...

Ukraine’s leadership has drafted a counterproposal to a Trump administration plan that has drawn criticism for conceding too much to Russia. While the counteroffer digs in on some of Kyiv’s earlier demands,...