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Pope Francis beatifies short-lived, ‘smiling Pope’ John Paul I

On Sunday, at a ceremony in St. Peter’s Square, Vatican City before some 25,000 faithful, Pope Francis beatified his short-lived predecessor Pope John Paul I, who served for 33 days as head of the Roman Catholic Church in 1978.

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Irish energy supplier Bord Gáis hikes rates for gas, electricity

Price hikes set by Ireland’s Bord Gáis Energy on Friday mean residential customers will pay an average €48.25 extra on electricity and €43.80 on gas each month. This came after similar announcements by competitors.

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IAEA inspectors visit Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine amid shelling, shutdown

A team of nuclear inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency arrived at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in southeast Ukraine on Thursday amid shelling and an emergency shutdown of one of the reactors.

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Peltola defeats Palin, Begich in Alaska special election for US House of Representatives

Democrat Mary Peltola won a special election for Alaska’s sole seat in the United States House of Representatives Wednesday, defeating Republican candidates Sarah Palin, former governor of the state, and Nick Begich III.

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Former leader of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev dies at age 91

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, died Tuesday evening in Moscow, Russia according to state news media and the Moscow Central Clinical Hospital “after a severe and prolonged illness”.

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