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World Cup Fast Facts

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the World Cup football (soccer) tournaments. The World Cup is organized by FIFA, the Federation Internationale de Football Association. Men’s and women’s tournaments are held every four years. July 20-August 20, 2023 – The Women’s World Cup takes place in Australia and New Zealand. Spain defeats

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Pope Leo XIV conducts Mass in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican

Pope Leo asks cardinals to make themselves ‘small’ in first Mass as pontiff as cardinals deny he’s a ‘counterweight’ to Trump

CNN By Christian Edwards, Lauren Kent, Christopher Lamb and Kara Fox, CNN Rome (CNN) — On most days, the Sistine Chapel is one of the world’s busiest tourist destinations, but this week it served as the world’s most secretive polling station as 133 cardinals voted for the 267th pope. On Friday, the chapel was restored

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Pope Leo XIV conducts Mass in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican

Pope Leo asks cardinals to make themselves ‘small’ in first Mass as pontiff as cardinals deny he’s a ‘counterweight’ to Trump

By Christian Edwards, Lauren Kent, Christopher Lamb and Kara Fox, CNN Rome (CNN) — On most days, the Sistine Chapel is one of the world’s busiest tourist destinations, but this week it served as the world’s most secretive polling station as 133 cardinals voted for the 267th pope. On Friday, the chapel was restored to

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This undated photo shows Robert Francis Prevost. Prevost was Bishop of Chiclayo

Victims’ group alleges Pope Leo XIV mishandled sexual abuse cases involving priests in Chicago and Peru

By Bob Ortega and Robert Kuznia, CNN (CNN) — Six weeks before American Cardinal Robert Prevost became Pope Leo XIV, the activist group Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) filed a complaint against him, along with other church leaders, to the Vatican’s Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin. The group alleged Prevost “harmed

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China has spent billions developing military tech. Conflict between India and Pakistan could be its first major test

By Nectar Gan, Simone McCarthy and Brad Lendon, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — The escalating conflict between India and Pakistan could be offering the world a first real glimpse into how advanced Chinese military technology performs against proven Western hardware – and Chinese defense stocks are already surging. Shares of China’s AVIC Chengdu Aircraft rose

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Ali Al-Samoudi outside the entrance of Jenin Camp

Israeli military extends detention of Palestinian journalist despite acknowledging lack of evidence

By Jeremy Diamond and Kareem Khadder, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — The Israeli military acknowledged Thursday that it does not have “sufficient evidence” to substantiate terrorism funding allegations it leveled against a prominent Palestinian journalist, even as an Israeli general ordered he be detained for another six months. The Israeli military’s top general in the occupied

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Zacarias Moussaoui Fast Facts

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of convicted terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui, who is serving a life sentence in prison without parole for his part in plotting the 9/11 attacks. Personal Birth date: May 30, 1968 Birth place: St. Jean-de-Luz, France Birth name: Zacarias Moussaoui Father: Omar Moussaoui Mother: Aicha el-Wafi

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People carry a person who was injured in an Israeli strike on a school compound at the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza on May 6.

Israeli strikes kill 48 at Gaza shelters for displaced Palestinians, hospitals say, as military operation intensifies

By Kareem Khadder, Abeer Salman and Hira Humayun, CNN (CNN) — Forty-eight people were killed, including at least seven children, in Israeli airstrikes on school compounds sheltering thousands of displaced Palestinians in Gaza, hospital officials said. Dozens more were injured in the strike, they said. At the site of one attack in the Al Bureij

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A soldier examines a building damaged by an Indian missile strike near Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-administered Kashmir on May 7

Pakistan and India are blaming each other as their Kashmir conflict spirals. Here’s what we know

By Sophia Saifi, Rhea Mogul and Jessie Yeung, CNN Islamabad, Pakistan / New Delhi, India (CNN) — Tensions between India and Pakistan remain high days after Delhi launched airstrikes on its neighbor, sparking tit-for-tat military action from both sides this week and widespread confusion as competing claims and disinformation spread online. Many countries are calling

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