What’s in a name? The history of the papal name Leo
By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Leo is now tied for the fourth most common name chosen by popes, along with Clement. Only John, Gregory and…
Continue ReadingBy Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Leo is now tied for the fourth most common name chosen by popes, along with Clement. Only John, Gregory and…
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Continue ReadingCNN By Lauren Kent, Christopher Lamb, Rob Picheta, Christian Edwards and Kara Fox, CNN Rome (CNN) — Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has made…
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Kent, Christopher Lamb, Rob Picheta, Christian Edwards and Kara Fox, CNN Rome (CNN) — Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has made…
Continue ReadingBy Eugenia Yosef and Oren Liebermann, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to “defend ourselves alone”…
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Diamond and Kareem Khadder, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — The Israeli military acknowledged Thursday that it does not have “sufficient…
Continue ReadingBy Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a joint statement “further…
Continue ReadingBy Abbas Al Lawati and Becky Anderson, CNN (CNN) — Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa has said that his government is holding indirect talks with…
Continue ReadingOriginally Published: 07 MAY 25 15:01 ET Updated: 07 MAY 25 16:16 ET By Lauren Kent and Christian Edwards, CNN Rome (CNN) — Black smoke billowed…
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — Kyiv accused Moscow of breaching its own ceasefire on Thursday, saying Russian forces struck hundreds of times…
Continue ReadingBy Lauren Kent and Christian Edwards, CNN Rome (CNN) — Black smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, meaning that…
Continue ReadingBy Eugenia Yosef, Samantha Waldenberg, Kathleen Magramo and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — Families of October 7 hostages held in Gaza demanded…
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Valerie the dachshund has finally been reunited with her owners after surviving 540 days alone on Kangaroo Island in…
Continue ReadingBy Sophia Saifi, Rhea Mogul and Jessie Yeung, CNN Islamabad, Pakistan / New Delhi, India (CNN) — Tensions between India and Pakistan remain…
Continue ReadingBy Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — As Russian President Vladimir Putin prepares for his heavily choreographed May 9 “Victory Day”…
Continue ReadingBy Kareem Khadder, Abeer Salman, Hira Humayun and Ibrahim Dahman, CNN (CNN) — Forty-eight people were killed, including at least seven…
Continue ReadingBy Sophia Saifi, Vedika Sud, Jerome Taylor, Ross Adkin, Rhea Mogul and Helen Regan, CNN Islamabad, Pakistan / New Delhi, India (CNN) — India…
Continue ReadingBy Christopher Lamb, CNN Rome (CNN) — When the cardinals enter the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday at the start of conclave, the process of…
Continue ReadingBy Dana Karni, Oren Liebermann and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israel struck multiple sites in Yemen’s capital Sanaa Tuesday,…
Continue ReadingBy Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — Germany’s Friedrich Merz has formally become chancellor at the second attempt, hours after an unprecedented…
Continue ReadingBy Noga Tarnopolsky for CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, cuts an unmistakable figure…
Continue ReadingBy Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — A ship that US and Philippine forces planned to sink beat them to it. A former US World War II-era warship,…
Continue ReadingBy Mariya Knight and Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — Ukrainian drones attacked Moscow for the second consecutive night, temporarily halting flights at…
Continue ReadingBy Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — A desperate search for two children missing in a rural part of Canada’s Nova Scotia province has stretched into…
Continue ReadingBy Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — Multiple major airlines are avoiding flying over Pakistan as relations with neighbor India crater in the wake of a…
Continue ReadingBy Sharon Braithwaite, Caitlin Danaher and Christopher Lamb, CNN (CNN) — All mobile phone signals will be deactivated in the Vatican on…
Continue ReadingBy Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — Japan’s Emperor Emeritus Akihito will be admitted to hospital for heart tests on Tuesday, public broadcaster NHK…
Continue ReadingBy Jeremy Diamond, Dana Karni and Kareem El Damanhoury, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israel struck targets in Yemen on Monday night, the Israeli…
Continue ReadingCNN By Nic Robertson, CNN Sarjiwar, Pakistani-administered Kashmir (CNN) — Malik Khadim’s lips tremble, his voice chokes and his head dips as…
Continue ReadingBy Nic Robertson, CNN Sarjiwar, Pakistani-administered Kashmir (CNN) — Malik Khadim’s lips tremble, his voice chokes and his head dips as he…
Continue ReadingStory by Reuters Moscow (Reuters) — Three police officers were killed and at least four people were injured when gunmen opened fire on police…
Continue ReadingBy Rob Picheta, CNN (CNN) — The International Court of Justice has dismissed Sudan’s case alleging that the United Arab Emirates violated the…
Continue ReadingBy Olivia Kemp, CNN London (CNN) — Britain is marking the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day this week with four days of…
Continue ReadingBy Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — One of them often dons a Trump-style red baseball cap and wants to make his country “great again.” The…
Continue ReadingBy Dana Karni, Lucas Lilieholm and Oren Liebermann, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the population of Gaza…
Continue ReadingBy Kathleen Magramo and Junko Ogura, CNN (CNN) — Japan’s estimated child population has shrunk for the 44th straight year to a record low,…
Continue ReadingBy Patrick Oppmann, CNN Havana, Cuba (CNN) — In a dilapidated home on the outskirts of Havana, Heidy Sánchez shows off photos from a past…
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung and Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has renewed his threat of using military force to annex…
Continue ReadingBy Dalia Abdelwahab and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN (CNN) — One of Pope Francis’s “popemobiles” is being transformed into a mobile healthcare…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Nicholls, Duarte Mendonca and Julia Vargas Jones, CNN (CNN) — Two people arrested on suspicion of planning an attack at a Lady…
Continue ReadingBy Caroline Baum, CNN Paris (CNN) — French police rescued the father of a cryptocurrency entrepreneur from his kidnappers Saturday night, but…
Continue ReadingBy Ibrahim Dahman, Eyad Kourdi, Abeer Salman, Oren Liebermann and Tareq Al Hilou, CNN (CNN) — Hamas has executed six Palestinians in Gaza and…
Continue ReadingBy Max Saltman and Gustavo Valdes, CNN (CNN) — It’s Saturday night at a rooftop bar in downtown Atlanta, and the band Orden Activa is about…
Continue ReadingBy Sophie Tanno, Christopher Lamb and Antonia Mortensen, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump posted an AI image of himself as the pope,…
Continue ReadingBy Kosta Gak and Eve Brennan, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine has claimed it shot down a Russian Su-30 fighter jet in the Black Sea using a seaborne drone…
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Like the other ceremonies and traditions that accompany the advent of a new pope, his newly chosen name will be…
Continue ReadingBy Tamar Michaelis and Oren Liebermann, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — A failed interception of a missile fired from Yemen forced Israel to briefly shut…
Continue ReadingBy Lex Harvey, Hilary Whiteman and Angus Watson, CNN (CNN) — Australians delivered a surprise election result on Saturday; not because of who…
Continue ReadingBy Christopher Ulloa and Mauricio Torres, CNN (CNN) — A sea of people filled Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana beach on Saturday as pop superstar…
Continue ReadingBy Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — A four-year-old girl and a man have been killed after a driver crashed an SUV into the entrance of Manila…
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