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The Franciscan Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, who has served as the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem since 2020, has emerged as one of the top candidates to succeed the late Pope Francis.
The conclave will select the new Pope in Rome for the world’s more than 1 billion Catholics on Wednesday.
The Jesuit Pope Francis made Pizzaballa a cardinal in September 2023. The following month, Hamas terrorists invaded Israel, slaughtered more than 1,200 people and took more than 250 people hostage. Just a few weeks later, Pizzaballa declared he would offer himself as a hostage to the jihad terrorist movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip in exchange for the release of children kidnapped by the radical Islamists.
CONCLAVE TO PICK NEXT POPE TO BEGIN MAY 7, VATICAN SAYS
According to the Vatican News, Pizzaballa, the first cardinal to live in Jewish state, said, “If I am ready for an exchange? Anything, if this can lead to freedom and bring those children back home, no problem. On my part, absolute willingne..

Eddie Mutwe is in severe pain after being beaten and electrocuted in custody, his lawyer says.

Marcel Ciolacu told his colleagues their government had no credibility after presidential elections.

A senior Israeli defense official on Monday said President Donald Trump’s upcoming visit to the Middle East is the “window of opportunity” to secure a hostage deal, otherwise Israel will initiate a new military operation in the Gaza Strip.
“If there is no hostage deal, Operation 'Gideon Chariots' will begin with great intensity and will not stop until all its goals are achieved,” the official said according to a Reuters report in reference to a Sunday night decision by Israel’s security cabinet to expand operations in the Gaza Strip.
Israel will use the roughly 10-day time frame to prepare for its new operations, which will entail calling up tens of thousands of reserve troops with the goal of taking over all the Gaza Strip.
ISRAEL APPROVES PLAN TO CAPTURE ALL OF GAZA, CALLS UP TENS OF THOUSANDS OF RESERVE TROOPS
In an apparent move to counter the terror group Hamas, the Israel Defense Forces will remain in captured territory rather than withdraw forces after an operation is ..

Boy, 14, mistakenly arrested during investigation into suspected terrorism plot

Police said the teenager was detained along with two men after they “appeared to have run away”. They were then released.

The UAE opted out of part of the Genocide Convention meaning it cannot face genocide allegations itself.

Layton Carr: Family pay tribute to ‘caring and loving’ boy killed in Gateshead fire

Layton's family say the teenager had an “absolute heart of gold and would do anything for anyone”.

The six-month-old died in 2017 after being hit by police deployed to quell election violence.

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State of panic growing in Sudan’s wartime capital amid drone strikes

Dark clouds of smoke have been rising over Port Sudan for two consecutive days, marking a serious escalation in the war.
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Footage of a strike in Port Sudan

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Dark clouds of smoke have been rising over Sudan's wartime capital Port Sudan for two consecutive days.

Royal Family watch flypast from Buckingham Palace to mark 80th anniversary of VE Day

Thousands line the streets in London as four days of celebrations begin to mark 80 years since Churchill announced victory over the Nazis in Europe.