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The Pope spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday and urged a truce with Ukraine as he continued his recovery from lung cancer surgery, the Vatican said.

People who take illegal drugs are "supporting the horrific events we saw in Waterford", Irish justice minister Jim O'Callaghan has said. 

The prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann case could face a new rape trial after German prosecutors launched a legal bid to overturn his acquittal on a string of sex charges, unrelated to the missing British girl.

Four people, including three children, have died after a school shooting in Oregon.

Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has rejected newly unsealed torture allegations against him and his wife as "false accusations".

Nineteen people have been injured after a collision between a bus and a train on the French side of the Channel Tunnel.

A British father has been fined €3,000 (£2,500) for causing the death of his two-year-old son who fell from the fourth floor of a hotel in Cyprus.

Two people have been arrested over the deaths of two adults and two children in a suspected arson attack on a house in Ireland.

At least 34 children and a teacher have died after the roof of a private school collapsed in Pakistan.