Pope Francis, 88, died of a stroke and heart failure, the Vatican said. Francis was last seen Sunday when he gave the traditional Easter blessing from the balcony of St. Peter’s.

The disagreement, now playing out in full public view, centres on a grant offered in 2022 through the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The funds, earmarked to improve maternal care ...

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On concluding the Indus waters negotiations in 1960, then Indian prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, spoke of the treaty as “a happy symbol not only in this domain of the use of the Indus valley waters, ...