Europe

Rituals for Benedict’s Passing Could Be Template for Future Ex Popes

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  VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – When Pope Gregory XII, the last pope to resign before Benedict, died in 1417, the world was not watching. Gregory had stepped down two years earlier in 1415 and spent his remaining days in virtual obscurity hundreds of miles from Rome. He was quietly buried in Recanati, a town near … Read more

EU Urges More Checks for COVID Variants Given Surge in China

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  BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union should consider immediately scaling up genomic sequencing of COVID-19 infections and monitoring of waste water, including from airports, to detect any new variants given the virus surge in China, the bloc’s health chief said. In a letter to health ministers of the EU’s 27 members, Stella Kyriakides said … Read more