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U.S. Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected the new pope and leader of the Roman Catholic Church on Thursday, taking the name Pope Leo XIV, a senior cardinal announced on May 8 to crowds gathered in St. Peter’s Square, according to Vatican News.

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9,158 war crime investigations opened against Russian occupiers.

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Ten Russians involved in war crimes in Bucha and 15 in the Kyiv Oblast have already been identified, Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova said on May 1. Cases were also opened against 620 top-level Russian officials, who will be prosecuted in absentia, Venediktova said.

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