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THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Centuries-old monasteries have been damaged by an ongoing series of earthquakes in a secluded monastic community in northern Greece , authorities said Friday. A magnitude 5.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — When Pope Leo XIV stepped out on the central loggia of St.

Israel attacked Iran’s capital early Friday , in strikes that targeted the country’s nuclear program and raised the potential for a larger war between the two bitter adversaries.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities arrested a Roman Catholic priest at the capital’s international airport on charges of raping of a minor over a period of years, officials said Thursday. The Mexico state prosecutor’s office said that Rev.

MEADVILLE, Pa. (AP) — A jury convicted a 53-year-old truck driver Thursday of shooting to death a pregnant Amish woman inside her rural Pennsylvania home early last year.

When the Rev. Edward Anderson rallied in Los Angeles this week against the Trump administration's intensifying immigration crackdown , he positioned himself between law enforcement and his fellow protesters, serving as a human buffer.

CAIRO (AP) — A unit of Gaza’s Hamas-run police force said it killed 12 members of an Israeli-backed Palestinian militia after detaining them early Thursday.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government survived an attempt to dissolve Israel's parliament early Thursday morning, with most of his ultra-Orthodox coalition partners joining him in voting against a bill that would have forced

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Palestinian death toll from the 20-month Israel-Hamas war passed 55,000, the Gaza Health Ministry said Wednesday, and hospitals said at least 21 people were killed while on their way to aid distribution sites.

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