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Pope calls on Romans to help housing crisis with ‘charity and solidarity’
Francis asked Catholic institutions and property owners to “make a courageous gesture of love” to Holy Year pilgrims and homeless locals.
- by Nicole Winfield
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German leader’s call to Putin ends Western isolation over Ukraine, infuriates allies
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said this was “exactly what Putin wanted” after Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s conversation.
- by Michael Nienaber, Daryna Krasnolutska and Alberto Nardelli
Opinion
Child abuse
He’s the vile QC who disgraced the church. At least I derailed his Australian mission
Vile child abuser John Smyth, QC, and morals crusader Mary Whitehouse came to Australia in the 1980s to spread the word of “muscular Christianity”. I’m glad I could scuttle their attempt to meet the attorney-general.
- by Geoffrey Robertson
Prosecutors seek jail sentence for Marine Le Pen over EU jobs scandal
The request puts the French far-right leader’s ability to participate in the 2027 presidential race at stake.
- by Sylvie Corbet
Soccer club ditches Musk’s ‘hate machine’ X ahead of German election
St Pauli encouraged its 250,000 followers to switch to Bluesky, the rival social network championed by former Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey.
Banksy forgeries among 2100 fakes rounded up in art bust
Italy’s art theft squad has broken up a European network of art forgers and dealers, and uncovered the country’s biggest operation of Banksy fakes.
- by Elisabetta Povoledo
Russia resumes airstrikes on Kyiv after ‘stockpiling break’
As air raid alerts wailed in Kyiv around 6am, the Ukrainian air force said it was tracking 96 aerial targets entering the country’s airspace.
- by Andrew E. Kramer and Marc Santora
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Religion
Archbishop of Canterbury resigns ‘in sorrow’ over handling of abuse scandal
Justin Welby had faced calls to resign after a report found he had taken insufficient action to stop a person it described as arguably the Church of England’s most prolific serial abuser.
- by Rob Harris
Chinese-owned vineyards in France for sale at knockdown prices
Between 2008 and 2014 Chinese investors bought up dozens of Bordeaux estates and gave them new names like Imperial Rabbit or Gold Rabbit. Then everything changed.
- by Vivian Song
Demands for Archbishop of Canterbury to resign over abuse scandal
Justin Welby, the spiritual leader of 85 million Anglicans worldwide, has been criticised for failing to report John Smyth, said to be the most prolific abuser in the church’s history.
- by Rob Harris
Chaos, provocations and violence: How attacks on Israeli soccer fans unfolded
Antisemitic assaults on visiting Israeli soccer fans and incendiary chants and attacks by some Israelis: here’s what we know about the violence in Amsterdam last week.
- by Jim Tankersley