Pope Francis says he has no plans to resign and isn’t suffering from any health problems that would require doing so, saying in a new memoir he still has “many projects to bring to fruition.”Francis, 87, made the comments in an autobiography, “Life: My Story Through History,” which is being…

With ally Hamas under attack in Gaza, the head of Iran’s Quds Force visited Beirut in February to discuss the risk posed if Israel next aims at Lebanon’s Hezbollah, an offensive that could severely hurt Tehran’s main regional partner, seven sources said.In Beirut, Quds chief Esmail Qaani met Hezbollah leader…

close Video Ten people are facing charges in Serbia for stealing as many as 43,000 state decorations of honor from a government building, prosecutors said on Friday. TOP STATE DEPT. OFFICIAL WORRIES KOSOVO CURRENCY BAN COULD CAUSE ‘HUMANITARIAN CRISIS’ FOR SERB MINORITYThe suspects colluded to carry out a “grave theft…

Congo has lifted a more than two-decade-old moratorium on the death penalty as authorities struggle to curb violence and militant attacks in the country, according to a justice ministry statement released on Friday.The statement, dated earlier this week, said the ban from 2003 allowed offenders accused of treason and espionage…

Slovaks turned out in droves Friday to protest the government’s planned overhaul of its public broadcasting service.The planned change comes amid a wave of similar protests against the populist, Russia-friendly government of Prime Minister Robert Fico.Opposition lawmaker Zora Jaurova slammed the proposal as one that would transform Slovakia’s public media…

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A police officer on patrol duty in northwestern Greece was arrested on drugs charges Friday for allegedly using his service car to smuggle marijuana, authorities said.The suspect was detained in the port town of Igoumenitsa following a road chase, together with an Albanian man found to be riding in the…

A Catholic activist in Belarus was handed a three-year prison sentence Friday on charges that Western diplomats have denounced as politically driven, the latest move in the authorities’ sweeping crackdown on the country’s civil society.Uladzislau Beladzed, 33, who taught the catechism at the city’s Cathedral of the Holy Name of…

Croatia will hold a parliamentary election on April 17, the country’s president said on Friday.President Zoran Milanovic scheduled the parliamentary vote after Croatia’s parliament dissolved on Thursday.The ballot next month will pit the ruling conservative Croatian Democratic Union against a group of centrist and left-leaning parties who have announced they…

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday called for greater international cooperation to fight the booming trafficking of illicit synthetic drugs such as fentanyl, the leading cause of overdose deaths in America.He was speaking at an annual meeting of the U.N. Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), which reviews global…