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Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris will not hold a Christmas Mass for the first time in more than 200 years, as repair work continues following April's fire. Midnight Mass will still be celebrated on Christmas Eve, officials said, but…

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis has donated $500,000 (£387,000) to help migrants stranded in Mexico as they try to reach the US border, the Vatican said. The money comes from the Catholic Church’s Peter’s Pence fund, from church collections…

US: A teenage gunman who wrote a hate-filled manifesto opened fire at a synagogue in California on Saturday, killing one person and injuring three others including the rabbi as worshippers marked the final day of Passover, authorities…

KIEV (Reuters): Ukraine entered uncharted political waters on Sunday after exit polls showed a comedian with no political experience and few detailed policies had easily won enough votes to become the next president of a country at war. …

NEW DELHI (Reuters): India will give financial assistance of $ 1.4 billion to the Maldives, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday, the biggest aid yet to the Indian Ocean island nation that is grappling with debt from a Chinese…

At least eight people have been killed and 11 seriously hurt in New York after the driver of a truck mowed down people on a cycle path in Lower Manhattan. A 29-year-old man who emerged from the white pick-up truck was shot by a police…

French President Francois Hollande on Wednesday congratulated Donald Trump on his victory in the U.S. presidential election, but warned that the American vote would open a period of uncertainty, Xinhua News Agency reports. "I…

Syria's Foreign Ministry denied claims about military gas attack in northern Aleppo province, according to state news agency SANA. The ministry denied any gas attack by the Syrian army on the rebel-held neighborhood of Sukkary, which…

Russia is planning an alternative version of the Wikipedia, the country's presidential library has said. A statement said the initiative aimed to provide better information about Russia than is available on Wikipedia. Analysis had…