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• Why do popes choose different names and what could the name of the new pope be?

  04-05-2025 13:51 via article.wn.com
  By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Like the other ceremonies and traditions that accompany the advent of a new pope, his newly chosen name will be imbued with centuries of Catholic history and dissected for its many layers of meaning. Changing his name is one of the first actions the new pope takes as head of the Roman Catholic Church and can play a hugely symbolic role in setting the tone for his pontificate. It is a precedent that was set in the early Middle Ages and, while there is no doctrina
  
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• World shares are mixed after AI worries drag Wall Street tech stocks lower

  18-12-2025 11:43 via article.wn.com
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• Westminster 'bomb' lockdown triggered by 'box of Christmas cards'

  18-12-2025 11:43 via article.wn.com
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• Turkiye warns Russia and Ukraine over Black Sea security after shooting down drone

  18-12-2025 11:43 via article.wn.com
  Turkiye has warned Russia and...
  
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• Today in History: December 18, Donald Trump impeached for the first time

  18-12-2025 11:43 via article.wn.com
  Today is Thursday, Dec. 18, the 352nd day of 2025. There are 13 days left in the year. ......
  
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• Snowboarding-Canada's world champion Brearley out of Olympics after knee surgery

  18-12-2025 11:43 via article.wn.com
  Dec 18 - World champion...
  
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• Senior Ukraine diplomat in Beijing for rare meeting with Chinese officials

  18-12-2025 11:43 via article.wn.com
  Ukraine’s First Deputy Foreign Minister said he was also meeting the US Ambassador to China. ......
  
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• Saudi, French and U.S. officials push Hezbollah disarmament plan

  18-12-2025 11:43 via article.wn.com
  PARIS/BEIRUT, Dec 18 - French, Saudi...
  
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• Russian ban on Roblox stirs debate about limits of censorship

  18-12-2025 11:43 via article.wn.com
  MOSCOW, Dec 18 - A Russian ban on...
  
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• Russia sentences Briton who fought for Ukraine to 13 years in prison camp

  18-12-2025 11:43 via article.wn.com
  MOSCOW, Dec 18 - A British man who...
  
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• Over 1,000 civilians killed in Sudan's Darfur when paramilitary group seized camp, UN says

  18-12-2025 11:43 via article.wn.com
  GENEVA, Dec 18 - Over 1,000 civilians were...
  
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• Modest but steady economic growth likely means no interest rate cut for Europe

  18-12-2025 11:43 via article.wn.com
  Interest rates in Europe are going to stay right where they are at a meeting of European Central Bank officials. That is because the economy is doing better than some had expected and can get by without a boost from ......
  
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• Migrants stuck in Mauritania after EU border pact brings crackdown

  18-12-2025 11:43 via article.wn.com
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• Man's 'nightmare' Tui holiday after bizarre attack by hotel worker

  18-12-2025 11:43 via article.wn.com
  Ryan Mendelson was left needing surgery ......
  
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• Malaysia’s pet boom clashes with religious taboos as Selangor mall reverses pet-friendly policy

  18-12-2025 11:43 via article.wn.com
  The U-turn comes after objections from Muslim groups and intervention by the state government. ......
  
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• Germany charges teens in alleged right-wing extremist group with attempted murder

  18-12-2025 11:43 via article.wn.com
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• French anaesthetist who poisoned 30 patients, killing 12, gets life in jail

  18-12-2025 11:43 via article.wn.com
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• Court hearing adjourned in strangulation case involving UK’s Duke of Marlborough

  18-12-2025 11:43 via article.wn.com
  Charles James Spencer-Churchill is a distant relative of Winston Churchill. ......
  
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• Oman and India sign comprehensive economic partnership agreement

  18-12-2025 11:41 via article.wn.com
  Oman and India signed a comprehensive economic partnership...
  
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• Watching Dharamendra for one last time in 'Ikkis' will mean the world to all of ...

  18-12-2025 11:40 via article.wn.com
  Mumbai, Filmmaker Karan Johar on Thursday extended his good wishes to "Ikkis”, which will be actor Dharmendra’s last movie and said it's going to be a treat for him and cinegoers to watch the last star on the screen one more time. Watching Dharamendra for one last time in 'Ikkis' will mean the world to all of us: Karan Johar The war drama, directed by Sriram Raghavan, was earlier set to arrive in theatres on December 25, and will now hit the big screen on January 1, 2026. Johar&rsquo
  
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• Prince Edward, Duchess Sophie son James to make huge announcement soon

  18-12-2025 11:40 via article.wn.com
  Prince Edward, Duchess Sophie son James to make huge announcement soon James, son of Prince Edward and Duchess Sophie, marked his 18th birthday this week, bringing with it a key royal choice about whether to use a...
  
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• Madhya Pradesh friends find '$55,000 diamond' on the plot they leased: ‘Can get our sisters married’

  18-12-2025 11:40 via article.wn.com
  Two childhood friends in Panna, Madhya Pradesh, discovered a diamond that experts estimate to be worth more than $55,000. According to reports, Satish Khatik and Sajid Mohammed discovered the rock a few weeks after leasing a plot. The friends found the diamond a few weeks after leasing the plot. (Representational image). (Unsplash) Khatik and Mohammed are extremely happy about the find and wish to use the money for their siblings' wedding, reported...
  
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• Bondi Beach shooting: PM Albanese vows crackdown on hate

  18-12-2025 11:40 via article.wn.com
  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has vowed to purge Australia of antisemitism after a deadly attack on a Jewish festival. Authorities are also looking to tighten gun laws. ......
  
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• Australia police intercept cars after tip-off on possible ‘violent act’, days after Bondi Beach shooting

  18-12-2025 11:40 via article.wn.com
  The Australian police on Thursday thwarted a possible ‘violent act’, days after the shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney which led to the deaths of 15 persons. Australian police commissioner Krissy Barrett said the shooting at Bondi Beach was “a terrorist attack inspired by Islamic State.(AFP) The police intercepted two cars in Sydney after receiving a tip-off that a “violent act was possibly being planned”, AFP news agency reported. Tactical officers swooped on the su
  
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• 1 killed, 10 injured as mini-bus turns turtle in west Afghanistan

  18-12-2025 11:40 via article.wn.com
  KABUL, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- One commuter lost his life and 10 others sustained injuries after a mini-bus turned...
  
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• The EU’s great frozen Russian asset holdup

  18-12-2025 11:37 via article.wn.com
  You do not invade Russia in winter. Napoleon learned that from the comfort of the Louvre’s heated salons, long before anyone could swipe the empress’s jewels from beneath the museum’s nose. Anyone convinced that the great European jackpot of 2025 is the glitter stolen from a display case has lost the plot. That embarrassment will fade; the real holdup unfolds in Brussels, inside council rooms where leaders who spent decades lecturing the world on the sanctity of the rule of law
  
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• Modest but steady economic growth lets Europe get by without an interest rate cut

  18-12-2025 11:37 via article.wn.com
  Interest rates in Europe are going to stay right where they are at a meeting of European Central Bank officials ......
  
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• World’s biggest oil reserve holder faces US chokehold as Trump targets Venezuela’s shadow tanker fleet

  18-12-2025 11:34 via article.wn.com
  President Donald Trump's new blockade on Venezuela’s sanctioned oil tankers takes square aim at a country that controls the world’s largest crude reserves.At more than 300...
  
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• The America first National Security Strategy — through the eyes of 'We the People'

  18-12-2025 11:34 via article.wn.com
  President Donald Trump’s...
  
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• Families mourn loved ones lost in Bondi Beach terror attack: ‘No words can describe the pain’

  18-12-2025 11:34 via article.wn.com
  The families of seven victims of Sunday’s fatal Bondi Beach shooting released heartbreaking statements...
  
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