Watch: How the Vatican said goodbye to Pope Francis
Hundreds of thousands of mourners gather in Rome to pay tribute to the late pontiff.
Watch: How the Vatican said goodbye to Pope Francis
Hundreds of thousands of mourners gather in Rome to pay tribute to the late pontiff.
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David A Graham doesn’t say he read Project 2025 so you don’t have to, but it might be inferred.
The Atlantic staff writer’s new book, The Project: How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America, is a swift but thorough overview of the vast far-right plan for a second Trump administration that achieved notoriety last year. Over just 138 pages, a passing dream next to the Heritage Foundation’s 922-page doorstop, Graham considers the origins of Project 2025, its aims and effects so far.
The Project is published in the US by Random House
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London councils are sitting on more than £130m that should be funding local climate action, the Guardian can reveal.
More than £170m has been collected through the mayor of London’s carbon offset fund, which developers are required to pay into to mitigate emissions from new projects, since it was introduced in 2016. However, the capital’s 33 local authorities have spent less than £40m between them. Some have said they do not have the resources, expertise or time to decide how to spend it.
Continue reading...USAID and the pacification industry in Palestine
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Trump, Zelenskyy hold Vatican talks in first meeting since Oval Office spat
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Pope Francis buried after funeral attended by world leaders, royals and 400,000 mourners – as it happened
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At least 130 foreign delegations, including about “50 heads of state and 10 reigning monarchs”, would attend Pope Francis’s funeral on Saturday, the Vatican said on Thursday.
Heads of state and government who have confirmed their attendance at the funeral include Emmanuel Macron, Donald Trump, Keir Starmer and Javier Milei, the president of Pope Francis’s native Argentina. Francis had a delicate relationship with politics in his home country, but Milei hailed his “goodness and wisdom”.
We will be present at the pope’s funeral, as is only right.
Continue reading...Pope Francis funeral live: Trump, Zelenskyy and Prince William join thousands for ceremony
Pope Francis is remembered as a ‘pope among the people with an open heart towards everyone’, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re says
At least 130 foreign delegations, including about “50 heads of state and 10 reigning monarchs”, would attend Pope Francis’s funeral on Saturday, the Vatican said on Thursday.
Heads of state and government who have confirmed their attendance at the funeral include Emmanuel Macron, Donald Trump, Keir Starmer and Javier Milei, the president of Pope Francis’s native Argentina. Francis had a delicate relationship with politics in his home country, but Milei hailed his “goodness and wisdom”.
We will be present at the pope’s funeral, as is only right.
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Four dead, over 500 injured as ‘massive’ explosion hits Iran’s Bandar Abbas
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At least 11 killed in suspected RSF drone attack on Sudan displacement camp
Local governor says the attack knocked out a nearby power station for the fourth time since the war began two years ago.