Crowds of mourners pay their respects to Pope Francis
Pope Francis, who died aged 80, was laid to rest as the second Pope in a basilica in his hometown of Buenos Aires. Argentina’s President Javier Milei and Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar were among the world leaders who attended the funeral. Pope Francis was laid to rest as the second Pope in a basilica in his hometown of Buenos Aires.
How to watch the funeral of Pope Francis
A Swiss Guards regiment has been formed to guard the coffin of Pope Francis who will be buried at the Basilica of St Mary Major in Rome. The regiment will have two guards and a deacon each. The coffin was brought to the basilica from the Vatican, where the late Pope had been laying in state for several days.
India reported a firefight with Pakistan after the Kashmir attack
Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary Tehreek-e-Insaf (FIF) Sartaj Aziz said that India cannot divert or hold back river water that it wants to bring to Pakistan because of a treaty between the two countries. “India hasn’t said, we’re going to withdraw from the treaty,” he further said. India has blamed Pakistan for the Varshin-Salam terror attack that killed 26 people in J&K.
Many guests are attending the funeral of Pope Francis
Pope Francis’ funeral will be held at 10 am on Saturday at the Basilica of Saint Mary Major in Rome, the Vatican said. Presidents, prime ministers and royalty are preparing to travel to Rome for Pope Francis’ funeral, which will be the most prominent gathering of world leaders since US President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January.
Opinion from Pope Francis
In a recent interview with The New York Times, Cardinal Wilton Gregory, archbishop of Washington, DC, revealed that he once came across a priest who recognised me as a gay man. “He said, ‘I’m gay too’,” he added. Gregory, who has apologised for the mistreatment of LGBT people in the church, further said that the priests didn’t understand what was happening to them.
The Justice Department wants to fix a search engine monopoly
Google’s lawyers told a US court that the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) proposed remedies in the antitrust case against it are a “wishlist for competitors” and will allow them to “get resources that took Google decades to develop”. They argued Google’s search engine Gemini wasn’t the subject of the antitrust case and didn’t hold a monopoly on AI products.
Sylvia Poggioli met Pope Francis while working for NPR
Pope Francis, who passed away on Monday, was the first-ever Latin American pope. He was archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina from 2013-2017. In his 12 years as Pope, he took on a number of challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the global financial crisis. Pope Benedict XVI had announced his resignation on Friday after 12 years as Pope.
The Supreme Court decision affects deportations under the Alien Enemies Act
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued the Trump administration again this week to block deportations at several Texas detention centres, including Bluebonnet, a facility in Texas. The ACLU sued the administration again this week, in order to block deportations. ACLU lawyer Lee Gelernt said migrants at Bluebonnet Detention Facility were being loaded onto buses for removal late Friday.
The Supreme Court decision on Alien Enemies does not mean that Venezuela’s citizens will be deported immediately
The US government has said 137 migrants accused of being members of the Venezuelan gang Tren De Aragua, including a group of men sent to a prison in El Salvador, have been deported under the Alien Enemies Act. There are no deportation plans on Friday or Saturday, but the government can remove people on Saturday, a lawyer for the justice department said.
the US leads a team in Paris as the leader of the French team seeks unity
US Senator Marco Rubio, who is currently in France for peace talks with Russia, said, “I think the key question right now is when the Europeans will say to Trump, ‘OK, you can have a deal with Putin but it’s our duty not to respect it’.” Rubio further said that the US won’t let peace talks “drag on for weeks or months”.