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5 days ago | 
businessandamerica.com | Helen Livingstone
Unearthed comments from new pope alarm LGBTQ+ CatholicsAfter years of sympathetic and inclusive comments from Pope Francis, LGBTQ+ Catholics expressed concern on Thursday about hostile remarks made more than a decade ago by Father Robert Prevost, the new Pope Leo XIV, in which he condemned what he called the “homosexual lifestyle” and “the redefinition of marriage” as “at odds with the Gospel”.
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5 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Helen Livingstone
Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureOpening summaryHello and welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of Pope Leo XIV’s first full day in office, during which he is expected to hold his first mass as leader of the Catholic church. Robert Francis Prevost, the first US-born pope, will celebrate a private mass with cardinals at the Sistine Chapel on Friday at 11am (0900 GMT), during which he will deliver his much anticipated first homily as pope.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Tom Ambrose |Lucy Campbell |Marina Dunbar |Sam Levine |Mark Oliver |Tom Perkins | +3 more
'We care about Europe being self-sufficient', says VanceTrump would like to see 5% spending on defense in Nato, Vance says. European countries have “some catching up to do” as it hasn’t kept up with that, Vance says. We really want and we really care about Europe being self-sufficient.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Lucy Campbell |Tom Ambrose |Tom Perkins |Lauren Gambino |Patrick Wintour |Helen Livingstone
'We care about Europe being self-sufficient', says VanceTrump would like to see 5% spending on defense in Nato, Vance says. European countries have “some catching up to do” as it hasn’t kept up with that, Vance says. We really want and we really care about Europe being self-sufficient.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Tom Ambrose |Helen Livingstone
Biden warns Europe losing confidence in US under Trump will change course of modern historyJoe Biden has accused Donald Trump of “modern-day appeasement” in his approach to Russia and expressed fears that Europe would “lose confidence in the certainty of America” in his first interview since leaving the White House in January. “He [Vladimir Putin] believes it [Russia] has historical rights to Ukraine,”Biden told the BBC.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Helen Livingstone
Joe Biden has accused Donald Trump of “modern-day appeasement” in his approach to Russia and expressed fears that Europe would “lose confidence in the certainty of America” in his first interview since leaving the White House in January. “He [Vladimir Putin] believes it [Russia] has historical rights to Ukraine,”Biden told the BBC. Anybody who thought the Russian president would stop if Kyiv conceded territory, as recently proposed by Trump, “is just foolish”, he said.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Helen Livingstone
Saturday papers in the UK were dominated by the Reform party’s victory at the polls, in which it gained an MP at Labour’s expense and won a string of local councils. A jubilant Nigel Farage said his hard-right populist party had now supplanted the Conservatives and pledged that Reform-run councils and mayoralties would block asylum seeker accommodation and dismantle equalities programmes.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Helen Livingstone
Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureOpening summaryHello and welcome to our live coverage of Ukraine, which has signed a deal to share revenues from the future sale of minerals and rare earths with the US after months of fraught negotiations.
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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Jakub Krupa |Tom Ambrose |Helen Livingstone |Andrew Roth |Kate Connolly |Ashifa Kassam | +1 more
US and Ukraine sign reconstruction investment fundThe US and Ukraine have signed an agreement to share revenues from the future sale of Ukrainian minerals and rare earths, sealing a deal that President Donald Trump has suggested will provide an economic incentive for the US to continue to invest in Ukraine’s defense and its reconstruction after a future peace deal with Russia.
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1 month ago | 
globalresearch.ca | Lauren Aratani |Tom Ambrose |Graeme Wearden |Helen Livingstone
SummaryHere’s a quick overview of what happened today:Markets around the world continued to reel from Donald Trump’s tariffs. The US stock market had a second day of steep declines, with all three indexes down over 5% for the day. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite entered a bear market, the first time a major index fund has done so since 2022. Meanwhile, the FTSE 100 saw its biggest daily drop since the pandemic.
