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Mons. Angelo Becciu presides over an eucharistic liturgy, at the St. John in Latheran Basilica, in Rome, Feb. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File )

As the Vatican prepares a conclave, the status of a once-powerful Italian cardinal looms

The status of an Italian cardinal is being debated as preparations get under way for the May 7 conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis. Cardinal Angelo Becciu was once an influential Vatican player and a leading papal contender himself.

Relatives mourn over the bodies of several members of the Abu Mahdi family, killed in an Israeli army airstrike, during their funeral at the Indonesian hospital in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, Monday, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo Jehad Alshrafi)

Israeli strikes on Gaza kill at least 27 Palestinians

Stephen Hayes Dacus, who is tapped to be the next chief executive of Seven & i Holdings, which operates the 7-Eleven convenience store chain, smiles as he meets with reporters at the company’s Tokyo headquarters Friday, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Yuri Kageyama)

7-Eleven’s soon-to-be chief is confident he knows value, and thrifty customers

Poland's President Andrzej Duda, right, and his Israel's counterpart Isaac Herzog, pose with Eli Sharabi, centre, wrapped in an Israeli flag, a freed hostage from Gaza, at the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau to attend the "March of the Living", the annual Holocaust remembrance event in memory of the six million Holocaust victims in Oswiecim, Poland, Thursday, April 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish and Israeli presidents lead March of the Living at Auschwitz

A container ship is moored at the Tollerort container terminal in Hamburg, Germany Thursday, April 24, 2025. (Daniel Bockwoldt/dpa via AP)

Germany sees the economy stagnating in 2025 as Trump’s trade policy weighs on it

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Pope Leo XIV meets priests and nuns who work as teachers in schools around the world

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Security personnel inspect the site of suicide bomber attack inside a roadside mosque in the Khyber district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, of Pakistan, Tuesday, July 25, 2023. A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a roadside mosque when a police officer tried to arrest him after a chase in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border on Tuesday, killing the officer, police said. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

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