“There’s already a fierce debate about what comes next,” says Vivienne Walt, Time Magazine’s Paris correspondent. “Francis was a very vocal and passionate defender of migrants. It put him directly at odds with Trump’s administration (…) You can already see some people online saying: ‘Please, don’t give us another woke pope!'”
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UN Special Representative Roza Otunbayeva was briefing the Security Council on the dire situation facing the country and the international aid effort, with UN women workers among those now prevented by Taliban edicts from working. “We will not put our national staff in danger and therefore we are asking them…
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