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Chiclayo, Peru CNN  —  Chiclayo’s main plaza was raucous with the sounds of hammering and music, people milling in anticipation as the scaffolding went up for vast digital screens in front of the city cathedral. Saturday’s open-air mass would be a very special one: a celebration marking the ascendency of Pope Leo XIV, the world’s first American pope – but better known here as Robert, the world’s first Chiclayano pope. Through the cathedral’s open doors, a line of women formed in front of the confessional in preparation for the big evening. A children’s chorus performed on the steps, competing with…

CNN  —  The Indiana Pacers emphatically pushed the top-seeded Cleveland Cavaliers to the brink of playoff elimination with a dominant 129-109 win to take a 3-1 series lead. After a chastening 22-point defeat at home in Game 3, a determined Pacers squad flew out of the gates and was 15 points up after the opening quarter. By the end of the second quarter, the lead hit 41, tying the largest halftime lead in NBA playoff history. The Pacers’ 80 first-half points also set a new franchise playoff record for points scored in a half, per Reuters. The Cavaliers had no…

BRNENEC, Czech Republic (AP) — A dilapidated industrial site in the Czech Republic where German businessman Oskar Schindler saved 1,200 Jews during the World War II is coming back to life.The site, a former textile factory in the town of Brněnec, about 160 kilometers (100 miles) east of Prague, was stolen by the Nazis from its Jewish owners in 1938 and turned into a concentration camp. This weekend it welcomed the first visitors to the Museum of Survivors dedicated to the Holocaust and the history of Jews in this part of Europe.The opening was timed to coincide with the 80th…

The White House touted a “China trade deal” on Sunday — without providing details — after two top U.S. officials alluded to a potential agreement with China following talks between the two countries in Switzerland over the weekend.”U.S. Announces China Trade Deal in Geneva,” read the White House’s headline for a transcript of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer’s remarks to reporters.Bessent and Greer had struck an optimistic tone regarding the state of a potential trade agreement with China, noting that the administration would provide additional details on Monday. While Greer referred to an “agreement” and “deal,”…

New Delhi/Islamabad CNN  —  India and Pakistan engaged in the most intense fighting in decades with four days of escalating conflict that included fighter jets, missiles and drones packed with explosives. It ended almost as abruptly as it began. New details reveal how a flurry of phone calls and diplomacy ultimately brought about a truce between the nuclear-armed neighbors and historic foes. And while the Indian and Pakistani accounts differ on some details, both sides agree the breakthrough started to come on Saturday afternoon. The ceasefire between Islamabad and New Delhi that according to Pakistani officials had been in the…

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors will begin trying to prove Monday that Sean “Diddy” Combs turned his hip-hop conglomerate into a racketeering enterprise that forced women to satisfy his sexual desires for two decades.Testimony in Combs’ New York trial could begin as soon as the afternoon following a final phase of jury selection in the morning and opening statements from the lawyers.Combs, 55, has pleaded not guilty to a five-count indictment that could land him in prison for at least 15 years if he is convicted on all charges. He has been imprisoned at a federal jail in Brooklyn…

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The Gaza Strip will likely fall into famine if Israel doesn’t lift its blockade and stop its military campaign, food security experts said in a stark warning on Monday.Nearly half a million Palestinians are facing possible starvation, living in “catastrophic” levels of hunger, and 1 million others can barely get enough food, according to findings by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, a leading international authority on the severity of hunger crises.The group said “there is a high risk” of outright famine if circumstances don’t change. Israel has banned all food, shelter, medicine and any…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia ’s low-cost carrier Flynas sold within minutes of opening all of the $1.1 billion in shares from its initial public offering on the Riyadh stock exchange on Monday.The carrier, backed by billionaire Alwaleed bin Talal, is offering 51.2 million shares at around $20 to over $21 apiece, representing about 30% of the company’s share capital. Flynas, which describes itself as the kingdom’s only independent airline, hopes to build out its fleet and expand its four bases, according to a statement from the company. The move to go public comes despite worldwide market…

CHICAGO (AP) — Recruiting women into construction has for years been a painstaking but broadly popular effort, with growing bipartisan and industry support amid persistent labor shortages. But President Donald Trump’s aim to stamp out diversity and inclusion programs threaten to cripple community-based organizations that have been critical to that goal.The Trump administration has moved swiftly to cut off federal funding to dozens of community groups that implement programs on the ground, including apprenticeship readiness programs designed for women, anti-harassment training, and child care and transportation support for workers who need them. The overhaul stems from a pair of anti-DEI…

Joey LynchCloseJoey Lynch is a Melbourne-based sports journalist and AYA cancer advocate. Primarily working on football, he has covered the Socceroos, Matildas and A-Leagues for ESPN for over a decade.May 12, 2025, 01:50 AM ETMelbourne City entered the second leg of their A-League Women semifinal on Sunday unbeaten all season, eyeing off a spot in this week’s Grand Final and the chance to win the second trophy of what they hoped would become a historic treble.But then everything that could go wrong did go wrong, capped off by an offside 121st-minute winner from Isabel Gomez that secured the Central Coast…