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The Vatican said on Saturday that Pope Francis's health had deteriorated over the past 24 hours and for the first time described his condition as "critical," reporting he had needed supplemental oxygen and blood transfusions.

Une fois de plus, Donald Trump s’est dit mécontent des actions du Canada, samedi après-midi lors de la Convention CPAC, un grand rassemblement de la droite américaine à Washington.

Le pape François, 88 ans, reste dans un « état critique » et son « pronostic est actuellement réservé » a indiqué samedi soir le Vatican alors qu’il entame sa deuxième semaine d’hospitalisation pour une pneumonie des deux poumons. 

French President Emmanuel Macron labeled the perpetrator an Islamic extremist, and said the government has “complete determination” to respond to the attack.

Germans are electing a new parliament Sunday after a campaign focused on the state of Europe’s biggest economy and calls to curb migration.

Hamas on Saturday released the last six living hostages expected under the first phase of its ceasefire with Israel with a week remaining before the deadline.

Ukraine has honed its army of drones to the point where these tools have become one of its most potent weapons in fighting back against Russia's full-scale invasion of its borders.

It was in early January that Awanti Naik's symptoms first crept up on her, starting with double vision and quickly followed by a debilitating headache and a strange feeling in her face. 

Julia Wandel is accused of turning up at the McCann family home, leaving voicemails and sending incessant messages.

The country said four direct round-trip flights per week will fly from Toronto starting in June, with a once-a-week return flight out of Montreal to start in August.

L'ancien conseiller de Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, est accusé d'avoir fait un salut nazi lors d’une intervention à la Conférence d’action politique conservatrice (CPAC) jeudi. 

Donald Trump a «célébré» jeudi les 30 premiers jours de son second séjour à la Maison-Blanche.

Francis’ doctors delivered their first in-person update on the pope's condition, saying that he will remain hospitalized at least all of next week.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that Israel would make Hamas pay for failing to release the body of hostage Shiri Bibas as agreed.

Immigration Minister Marc Miller says Quebecers can now apply to resettle their relatives from Sudan as long as they go to another province, after being barred from applying.

The call was held amid increasingly hostile rhetoric toward Ukraine by U.S. President Donald Trump and concerns the U.S. is negotiating a peace deal directly with Russia.

'We want to be clear given this designation that we don’t negotiate our sovereignty,' Claudia Sheinbaum said after the U.S. classified Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations.

C’est une accusation récurrente du président américain Donald Trump: l’Union européenne (UE) abuserait des États-Unis en accumulant des excédents commerciaux massifs. Mais les chiffres dressent le tableau d’une relation plutôt équilibrée qui bénéficie aux deux rives de l’Atlantique. 

The asteroid, described as a "city killer," is keeping space watchers on their toes.

Hamas handed over the bodies on Thursday of Israeli infant Kfir Bibas and his four-year-old brother, Ariel, the two youngest captives taken by Hamas in their Oct. 7, 2023, attack and among the most potent symbols of the trauma inflicted that day.

Police were investigating the motive for the attack in Hradec Kralove, a city 110 km east of Prague.

Hamas on Thursday released the bodies of four Israeli hostages, said to include a mother and her two children who have long been feared dead.

Ukraine has spent nearly three years fighting against an unyielding, full-scale Russian invasion but until recently did not face serious sparring with its allies in Washington.

Marine experts have given up hope of rescuing more than 150 false killer whales are stranded on a remote beach on Australia’s island state of Tasmania, officials said on Wednesday.

Donald Trump a continué mercredi ses vives critiques envers Volodymyr Zelensky, le dépeignant en «dictateur», après avoir été accusé par le président ukrainien de vivre dans «un espace de désinformation» russe.

Hochhalter was found in her home in suburban Denver on Sunday. Her family suspects she died of natural causes stemming from her injuries in the 1999 shooting,

Residents of an English village were evacuated as a large sinkhole swallowed parts of the town’s main street up to the edge of homes.

Brazil's prosecutor-general on Tuesday formally charged former president Jair Bolsonaro with attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat, in a plot to poison his successor and current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and kill a Supreme Court judge.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he “would like Trump’s team to be more truthful" after Trump suggested Ukraine “should have never started” the war.

Ukraine was not involved in either high-level meeting on its future and a possible end to the war, and it remains unclear when all sides will be at the same table in the future.

Prosecutor-General Paulo Gonet alleges that Bolsonaro and 33 others participated in a plan to remain in power despite losing to current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Accusé d'avoir agressé sexuellement 299 jeunes patients, Joël Le Scouarnec, chirurgien français, n'a jamais été inquiété durant sa longue carrière. Un «échec collectif», car beaucoup connaissaient, ou soupçonnaient, sa pédocriminalité, notamment à Quimperlé (ouest de la France), a appris l'AFP en consultant des documents confidentiels.

Moscow's Ambassador to Canada Oleg Stepanov says "Russia has no interest" in joining the Group of Seven, which he calls an "outdated structure."

Authorities in Sicily say tourist vehicles are clogging up streets leading to the volcano, potentially blocking emergency services and rescue efforts.

Vatican authorities say that Pope Francis has a complex infection in his respiratory system and will require more targeted drug treatment. Officials said the 88-year-old Pope is suffering from a "polymicrobial respiratory tract infection," but gave no further details Monday on the severity of his illness or what would change in his treatment.

In a statement, Pope Francis noted that any bishop who turns 75 is automatically requested to offer his resignation, the Pope then decides whether to accept the offer.

The warring sides have yet to negotiate the second and more difficult phase, in which Hamas says it will release dozens more hostages in exchange for a lasting ceasefire.

U.S.-Russia agreed to restore embassy staffing and create a high-level team to negotiate peace in Ukraine peace and promote economic cooperation.

European leaders insisted on Monday they must have a say in international talks to end the war in Ukraine, despite the clear message from both Washington and Moscow that there was no role for them as yet in negotiations that could shape the future of the continent.

Le pape François, hospitalisé depuis vendredi à Rome, affiche un «tableau clinique complexe», a annoncé lundi le Vatican, indiquant que l’hospitalisation du pontife de 88 ans devrait se prolonger jusqu’à au moins mercredi, même s’il a repris le travail. 

The U.S. State Department removed the phrase "we do not support Taiwan independence” from the fact sheet last week, drawing ire from Beijing.

The talks, scheduled for Tuesday in Saudi Arabia, mark another consequential step by the Trump administration to reverse U.S. policy on isolating Russia.

Doctors have changed treatment for Pope Francis's respiratory tract infection to tackle a "complex clinical situation" and he will remain in hospital for as long as necessary, the Vatican said on Monday.

China's military on Monday condemned the sailing of a Canadian warship in the Taiwan Strait, saying its air and naval forces had monitored and warned the ship, a mission that came just a few days after U.S. navy ships made a similar mission.

Le premier ministre israélien, Benjamin Nétanyahou, a menacé dimanche d’ouvrir les «portes de l’enfer» dans la bande de Gaza si tous les otages n’étaient pas libérés, soulignant le front commun israélo-américain en reprenant une expression utilisée par le président Donald Trump. 

The ceasefire's first phase is set to end in two weeks and the second phase has yet to be negotiated, though talks were meant to begin two weeks ago.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday fully endorsed Israel's war aims in the Gaza Strip, saying Hamas "must be eradicated" and throwing the future of the shaky ceasefire into further doubt.

The proposal did not offer any specific security guarantees in return, according to one current and one former senior Ukrainian official familiar with the talks.

Panic swept through eastern Congo's second-largest city on Saturday as residents fled by the thousands, scrambling to escape the looming advance of Rwanda-backed rebels.

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