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St. Peter’s Square erupted in applause for Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Inside the Basilica, he and Donald Trump huddled with France’s Emmanuel Macron and Britain’s Keir Starmer. The occasion was ...

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VATICAN CITY (AP) — World leaders and rank-and-file Catholic faithful bade farewell to Pope Francis in a funeral Saturday that highlighted his concern for people on the peripheries and reflected his ...