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The Trump administration’s plans for mass deportation now include Libya, which would represent a remarkable development given the North African country’s controversial treatment of migrants, and its fraught history with the U.S. U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy issued an order on Wednesday restricting the removal of migrants to Libya after Reuters, citing three …

Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first mass on Friday in the Sistine Chapel, where he was elected less than 24 hours earlier, warning of the dangers caused by a lack of faith and hoping the Catholic Church could be a beacon lighting the world’s “dark nights.” Leo, the former Cardinal …

The 20-year-old son of a sheriff’s deputy opened fire Thursday at Tallahassee’s Florida State University with his mother’s former service weapon, killing two people and wounding at least six others, investigators said. Officers who arrived on the scene shot and wounded the man after he refused to comply with commands, said Tallahassee …

Israel announced a major expansion of military operations in Gaza on Wednesday, saying large areas of the enclave would be seized and added to its security zones, accompanied by a large-scale evacuation of the population. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said troops were seizing an area he called the “Morag Axis,” a reference …

Pope Francis, 88, read the newspapers and had breakfast on Sunday after a second night sleeping well at the hospital where he is being treated for a respiratory tract infection, the Vatican said. Vatican spokesperson Matteo Bruni said he expected to provide a further update later in the day. He noted …

Survivors of Sweden’s worst mass shooting on Wednesday recalled trying to save the lives of their comrades at a school for adults in Örebro, a day after a gunman killed 11 people on what the prime minister called a “dark day” in the country’s history. Police said there was no …

Bernarda Rodriguez remembers the chaos when U.S. immigration officials raided the Mississippi chicken factory where she worked in 2019 as they looked for undocumented migrants. “Everybody started running and screaming … they wanted to get out … but the doors were closed,” said Rodriguez, who came to the U.S. illegally …

Rwanda-backed rebels claimed they captured eastern Congo’s largest city, Goma, early Monday, as the United Nations described a “mass panic” among its two million people and Congo’s government said the rebel advance was a “declaration of war.” The M23 rebels announced the city’s capture in a statement minutes before a …

The most immediate risk after next week’s U.S. presidential transition isn’t to residents of those nations Donald Trump has mused about invading. It’s to the millions of people inside the United States who are about to enter four years of fear: the undocumented migrants Trump has vowed to deport en masse. They …

A Serbian court on Thursday convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison a young man who gunned down nine people and wounded 12 in one of two back-to-back mass killings last year that shook the Balkan nation. Uros Blazic, 21, took up an automatic rifle on May 4, 2023, …