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The pontiff was diagnosed with lung cancer after having surgery at Rome's Gemelli Hospital on Tuesday. The 71-year-old pontiff was diagnosed with lung cancer after the surgery at Rome's Gemelli Hospital on Tuesday afternoon, which the Vatican said had been "successful" and proceeded without complications. The images shared on Friday showed the Chicago-born Pope wearing a green robe while standing behind a makeshift altar on the tenth floor of the.

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The BBC sees masked settlers attack Palestinians trying to harvest olives, amid a surge in similar incidents. Watch: Israeli settlers attack Palestinians in West Bank during olive harvest Dozens of masked settlers have attacked Palestinians and set fire to cars and olive trees during the annual olive harvest in the occupied West Bank. A BBC team witnessed one of several attacks in farmland near the Palestinian village of Abu Falah.

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The US president launches a new wave of blistering criticism at Volodymyr Zelensky ahead of a meeting of EU leaders in Brussels. Speaking to US media on Thursday evening, Trump also called Ukraine's fresh wave of strikes on Russian oil refineries a "disgrace". Zelensky, who is in Brussels for a summit with EU leaders, had paused the attacks for three days at Trump's request for a ceasefire on energy targets,.

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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi spoke to Israeli President Isaac Herzog on the sidelines of a conference. The "Palestinian question" is "the greatest historical injustice of this century", Wang told Israeli President Isaac Herzog in a face-to-face meeting on the sidelines of a conference in Azerbaijan on Thursday. Beijing has been a longstanding supporter of the Palestinian cause and has maintained that a "two-state solution" is the "correct direction". It.

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BBC Verify analysis of data from a UK maritime agency shows 12 vessels were struck in a week. ByJoshua Cheetham, Thomas Copeland and Alison Benjamin, BBC VerifyPublished19 minutes agoThe number of ships that have reported being attacked in and around the Strait of Hormuz has hit a record high, BBC Verify analysis of data from a UK maritime agency shows. Twelve vessels were attacked between 5 and 11 October -.

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Three children aged 5, 8 and 11 and a teacher were killed after a 16-year-old suspect opened fire in the city of Bend, local police say. Four victims, including a teacher and three children aged 5, 8 and 11, were killed in a shooting at a primary school in the US state of Oregon, local police say. A 16-year-old suspect forced his way into the school by firing at locked.