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Pope Leo receiving teams and fans from US college basketball before their games in Rome
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV is set to hold a private audience on Saturday with basketball teams from his alma mater, Villanova, and fellow Catholic university Notre Dame, plus thousands of traveling American fans in town for the season opener.A total of about 7,000 people are expected Saturday in the Paul VI audience hall inside the Vatican. The audience precedes the U.S. college basketball season opener in Rome on Sunday.
The Villanova and Notre Dame men’s and women’s teams will play a doubleheader at the 11,000-seat Palazzo dello Sport — which is located... Read More
Congo's Ebola deaths top 5,000 as fear of continent-wide spread mounts
BUNIA, Congo (AP) — Deaths in Congo’s Ebola outbreak have topped 5,000 as the country grapples with the relentless spread of the disease and cases are recorded in other African countries, the latest government data on Saturday shows.Data from the Congolese Ministry of Health showed that the disease has killed 5,026 people out of 10,351 infected, at a nearly 50% lethality rate. The surge is sparking concerns among experts regarding the authorities’ ability to contain the deadly virus.
The latest outbreak, caused by the Bundibugyo virus, was declared in mid-May,... Read More
Venus Williams loses her doubles match at Guangzhou on the WTA Tour
GUANGZHOU, China (AP) — Venus Williams has lost in her first WTA Tour semifinal in eight years.The 46-year-old Williams and her Indonesian playing partner Janice Tjen lost to Polina Kuderemetova and Maria Timofeeva 6-4, 6-7 (8), 10-6 in the Guangzhou Open doubles semifinals on Saturday.
It marked Williams’ first WTA Tour doubles semifinal appearance since the 2016 Rio Olympics and Wimbledon, and her first overall tour semifinal since 2018 at Indian Wells, California.
Williams was given wild-card entries in both singles and doubles for the WTA 250 She... Read More
France heads into third weekend of protests as youth-led rallies sweep Europe
PARIS (AP) — France prepared Saturday for a third consecutive weekend of protests over living costs and education, deploying 70,000 police and gendarmes and pushing the Paris march to the capital’s edge as youth-led demonstrations spread across Europe.Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez warned of a “very high risk” of disorder, especially after dark on Halloween.
Paris police banned union and yellow vest marches through the city center Friday, ordering demonstrations to follow a single route along the capital’s outer boulevards, from Porte de Bagnolet to Porte... Read More
Evacuated Oleshky residents begin the long journey out of the war-ravaged region
KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — Evacuees from Russian-occupied Oleshky began the long journey out of the war-ravaged region in bus convoys Friday, on the fourth day of the most significant truce since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine 4½ years ago.The estimated 2,000 remaining residents in the city of Oleshky were offered the choice of traveling to Ukrainian- or Russian-held territory, or remaining in the city with replenished food and medical supplies.
Officials in Kyiv said the evacuated residents bound for Ukraine were traveling to the city of Anapa in southern... Read More
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