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Benedict XVI, the first pope in seven centuries to resign, has died at the age of 95.

Melinda Haring, the outgoing deputy director of the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, explains to NPR’s Elissa Nadworny what to expect from the Russia-Ukraine war in 2023.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine dominated headlines in 2022. We listen back to the stories of women and children affected by the war.

3 Egyptian police officers were killed in shooting in Suez Canal city on Friday, following years of attacks concentrated in Sinai

A federal judge ordered four Florida-based cruise lines that sailed to Cuba to pay more than $400 million in damages to the American company that had the concession to some of the port piers in Havana that had been unlawfully

Optimism is tempered by worsening economic pain as President Volodymyr Zelensky pays tribute to sacrifices made.

‘It’s just like it was before’: Israelis, Palestinians revel at bars and other public places, as newly reinstated PM Netanyahu hails ‘a new year, a new government, a new direction’

Benedict stunned the Roman Catholic world by becoming the first pope in nearly 600 years to resign. Now his death leaves a living pope presiding over the funeral of his predecessor.

Blasts have been heard in Kyiv and air raid sirens wailed across the country just after midnight, forcing Ukrainians to abandon New Year celebrations and head to bomb shelters.

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