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Pope Leo XIV calls Zelensky about Oleshky days after talking with Putin

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On Oct 19, the Pope raised the situation in Oleshky, a Russian-occupied town in Ukraine's Kherson region. Its residents are cut off from food and medicine.

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UN biodiversity talks open in Armenia as nature's decline deepens

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Nearly 200 countries opened the COP17 biodiversity summit in Yerevan on Monday. Over two weeks, they will review the Kunming-Montreal framework, the nature deal adopted in 2022.

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Finland seeks one million anti-personnel mines

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Finland stopped being bound in January by the Ottawa Convention, a treaty that aims to eliminate anti-personnel mines. It joined in 2012 and announced its withdrawal in April 2025, citing a worsening security climate.

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Pope Leo needs no further treatment after lung cancer surgery

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Tests on tissue removed during surgery confirmed a lung adenocarcinoma that had not spread, his doctors said in a statement shared by the Vatican.

El Salvador launches an operation to rescue its soldiers held in Haiti

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"Do not take our word for empty threats. We have already finished with the gangs in El Salvador, and we can finish with you too."

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Mexico charges a former state prosecutor with treason over a U.S. drug raid

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Federal prosecutors accuse César Jáuregui Moreno, attorney general of the border state of Chihuahua until this year, of letting U.S. agents join an April raid on a suspected drug lab without proper authorization. He denies it.

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France riots: Macron accuses foreign leaders of exploiting the unrest

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"For me, there is no visible foreign interference in the events that took place. On the other hand, there was foreign manipulation of information afterwards."

Nigeria's first Ebola case matches the strain behind Congo's outbreak

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Three tests confirmed the patient in Abuja has the Bundibugyo strain, Nigerian health officials said, and the World Health Organization confirmed it. It is the outbreak's first spread to West Africa, and Nigeria is the fifth country to detect it.