Cardinal Angelo Becciu attends the consistory inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, on Aug 27, 2022. (ANDREW MEDICHINI / FILE / AP) VATICAN CITY – A court at a Vatican corruption trial on Thursday heard a secretly recorded telephone call between the main defendant, embattled Cardinal Angelo Becciu, and Pope Francis. Reporters were asked […]
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Republican states seek to preserve Trump-era US border curbs
A group of migrants look for a place to cross the Rio Grande in Piedras Negras, Mexico on November, 16, 2022. (SERGIO FLORES / AFP) WASHINGTON – A coalition of states with Republican attorneys general took legal steps on Monday to retain pandemic border curbs recently ruled unlawful by a US judge, aiming to preserve […]
Italian PM Draghi resigns after coalition falls apart
In this file photo taken on June 16, 2022 Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi holds a press conference with the heads of state of Ukraine, France, Romania and Germany at Mariinsky Palace in Kyiv. (LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP) ROME – Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi handed in his resignation to President Sergio Mattarella on Thursday […]