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The pontiff arrived at Baghdad International Airport where he was greeted by the prime minister. During his four-day visit, Francis will focus on Iraq’s ancient but dwindling Christian community. (Image credit: Sabah Arar/AFP via Getty Images)

Iran Air flight makes emergency landing in Isfahan; IRGC says no injuries after authorities disrupt alleged attack

BAGHDAD (AP) — Pope Francis arrived in Iraq on Friday to urge the country’s dwindling number of Christians to stay put and help rebuild the country after years of war and persecution, brushing aside the coronavirus pandemic and security concerns

Asked about Netanyahu’s assertion Thursday that the pandemic is largely over in Israel, Ash says: ‘I don’t know what the prime minister meant’

Chinese legislators in Beijing are set to overhaul Hong Kong’s elections systems. Once semi-autonomous, mainland China has curtailed freedoms in Hong Kong. (Image credit: Lam Yik/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The blocked shipment of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines was the first intervention by the EU since the bloc approved rules that could restrict vaccine exports to non-member nations. (Image credit: Dean Lewins/Getty Images)

The pontiff began a densely scheduled visit to Iraq fraught with public-health and security risks, his first trip outside of Italy in more than a year.

In the first episode of a series we’re calling “The Longest Year,” which tells the stories of the isolation, uncertainty, fear, loss and new understanding that have spread alongside the virus, we focus on the people on the front lines.

An estimated 200 civilians allegedly shot dead in war-torn Tigray region; separate ‘crime against humanity’ leaves 164 dead

How do nations sleepwalk into war? Often through lack of imagination. That is the thesis that impelled Adm. James Stavridis, a former NATO supreme commander, and Elliot Ackerman, a prominent fiction writer and decorated Marine veteran, to write “2034: A