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1 week ago | 
nbcnews.com | Alexander Murray Smith |Sam Gregg |Max Butterworth |Henry Austin
Updated More than 130 cardinals from all over the world are gathering today for the papal conclave — a centuries-old tradition through which a new head of the Catholic Church is elected. Barred from leaving or making any contact with the outside world, the church leaders must vote until they select the next leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics. When the choice is made, white smoke will billow from the Apostolic Palace.
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1 week ago | 
nbcnews.com | Henry Austin
/ Updated LONDON — Prince Harry has losthis appeal against the U.K. government’s decision to axe his publicly-funded security detail at Britain’s High Court. King Charles III’s second son’s protection was downgraded in February 2020 when he stepped down as a full-time member of the royal family and moved to the United States with his wife, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex. That meant the British state provided security on a case-by-case basis.
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2 weeks ago | 
nbcwashington.com | Claudio Lavanga |Chris Jansing |Astha Rajvanshi |Valeria Verbaro |Martina Ucci |Aurora Almendral | +9 more
Pope Francis' funeral in St. Peter's Square has started . Follow live here for updates from the Vatican City.
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2 weeks ago | 
nbcnews.com | Claudia Hernandez |Jean-Nicholas Fievet |Astha Rajvanshi |Valeria Verbaro |Molly Hunter |Martina Ucci | +11 more
Pope Francis’ funeral ceremony at the Vatican on NBC News. Pope Francis died on Easter Monday at age 88.
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2 weeks ago | 
nbcnews.com | Henry Austin
Dust off the history books and there are papal conclaves with international intrigue, royal rigging and even riots, a checkered past that belies the air of sanctity and solemnity surrounding modern papal elections.
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2 weeks ago | 
nbcnews.com | Max Butterworth |Henry Austin
They came from far and wide, the U.S., the U.K. and South America among other places, all united in their desire to pay their last respects to Pope Francis. Outside St. Peter’s Basilica, thousands of people lined up for hours, some waiting in the cold twilight hours of Thursday morning to catch a glimpse of the pontiff’s body as it lies in a simple wooden coffin, dressed in red liturgical vestments, his hands folded and holding a rosary.
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4 weeks ago | 
nbcnews.com | Angela Yang |Brian Cheung |David K. Li |Henry Austin
As the two largest economies in the world — the United States and China — continue to spar over tariffs, the escalating trade war is spurring some Americans to favor Chinese goods in ways they never did before. President Donald Trump has said his sweeping tariffs around the globe are aimed at bringing manufacturing back to American shores.
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1 month ago | 
nbcnews.com | Henry Austin
A Russian-American woman who was imprisoned for treason by Russia has been freed, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday. Former ballerina Ksenia Karelina was born in Russia but had built a new life as an aesthetician at a Los Angeles spa after immigrating to the United States over a decade ago. She “is on a plane back home to the United States,” having been “wrongfully detained by Russia for over a year,” Rubio said on in a post on X.
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1 month ago | 
nbcnews.com | Henry Austin
The White House said Tuesday that had agreed to a ceasefire in the Black Sea and to implement a ban on attacks on energy facilities by the two neighbors, an apparent breakthrough after American negotiators held separate talks with both countries. Negotiators had agreed with both countries “to ensure safe navigation, eliminate the use of force, and prevent the use of commercial vessels for military purposes in the Black Sea,” the White House said in two separate but similar statements.
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1 month ago | 
nbclosangeles.com | Henry Austin
Hours after agreeing to a partial ceasefire with Russia in a phone call with President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted 10 images to his Telegram channel of fires and damage in the country's central Kirovohrad region. " Russia's attacks on Ukraine, despite its propaganda statements, do not stop," he wrote alongside the images, some of which showed firefighters standing on ladders and cranes, hosing down flames.
