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In this image taken on Monday, April 28, 2025, and made available Saturday, May 3, 2025, by Vatican Media, workers prepare the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, where the upcoming conclave will start May 7, backdropped by Michelangelo Buonarroti’s fresco ‘The Last Judgement’. (Vatican Media via AP)

Ahead of the conclave, Vatican staff must vow secrecy under threat of excommunication

May 5, 2025 at 9:11 a.m.

All the support staff for the cardinals who will elect the successor to Pope Francis are taking an oath of secrecy on Monday ahead of the conclave that’s starting on...

A man takes images of the tomb of Pope Francis as faithful are allowed inside St. Mary Major Basilica in Rome, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Catholic faithful pay respects to Pope Francis as his tomb opens to the public in Rome basilica

April 27, 2025 at 11:15 a.m.

Roman Catholic faithful began visiting the tomb of Pope Francis on Sunday, filing past the simple white tomb in St. Mary Major Basilica a day after he was bade farewell...

A farmer displays eggs from his chicken in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

The US is on an egg hunt in Europe to ease prices at home

March 28, 2025 at 8:33 a.m.

The U.S. government is on a global egg hunt, seeking exports from countries in Europe and elsewhere to ease a severe shortage that has caused egg prices at grocery stores...

Spirits with and without the star mark in Bilka in Randers, Denmark, making it easier for customers to buy European goods, Monday, March 17, 2025. (Bo Amstrup/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

‘Danish Viking blood is boiling.’ Danes boycott US goods with fervor as others in Europe do so too

March 17, 2025 at 4:13 p.m.

There is a growing movement across Europe and Canada to boycott U.S. products. People are joining Facebook groups where they exchange ideas about how to avoid U.S. products and find...

Friedrich Merz, right, leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and Markus Soeder, leader of the Christian Social Union (CSU), shake hands at the CDU party headquarters in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025. (Michael Kappeler/dpa via AP)

Friedrich Merz prioritizes Ukraine and US, vows to tackle migration and economy after German election win

February 24, 2025 at 8:35 a.m.

Germany’s mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won the country’s national election, ensuring that Ukraine has an even stronger supporter in the European Union’s largest country and creating hopes for...

People visit the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Auschwitz memorial holds observances on the 80th anniversary of the death camp’s liberation

January 27, 2025 at 3:28 p.m.

The 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops is being marked on Monday at the site of the former death camp, a ceremony that is widely being...

Nato’s Secretary General Mark Rutte addresses the media during a press conference as part of a summit of the Baltic Sea NATO countries in Helsinki, Finland, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (Antti Aimo-Koivisto/Lehtikuva via AP)

NATO announces a new mission to protect undersea cables in the Baltic Sea region

January 14, 2025 at 7:39 a.m.

NATO is launching a new mission to protect undersea cables in the Baltic Sea region after a string of incidents in the Baltic that have heightened concerns about possible Russian...

Donald Trump Jr., second right, poses for a picture upon his arrival in Nuuk, Greenland, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. (Emil Stach/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

Donald Trump Jr. arrives in Greenland with a message from his dad: ‘We’re going to treat you well’

January 7, 2025 at 10:45 a.m.

President-elect Donald Trump told residents of Greenland that “we’re going to treat you well” as his oldest son visited the mineral-rich Danish territory that’s home to a large U.S. military...

Teddy bears were laid together with candles near the Christmas market, where a car drove into a crowd on Friday evening, in Magdeburg, Germany, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

German authorities received tipoffs last year about the suspect in Christmas market attack

December 22, 2024 at 11:06 a.m.

German authorities said they received tipoffs last year about the suspect in a car attack at a Christmas market in Magdeburg as more details emerged on Sunday about the five...

Forensics work on a damaged car sitting with its doors open after a driver plowed into a busy Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, early Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024. (Hendrik Schmidt/dpa via AP)

A 9-year-old is among 5 killed in the Christmas market attack in Germany

December 21, 2024 at 10:46 a.m.

Officials say a 9-year-old was among five people killed when a Saudi doctor drove into a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg.

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