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3:01 AM on Friday, April 10

Simon Kimbangu, founder of one of Africa’s largest independent churches, spent 30 years in jail and died a prisoner, banished far from his home by Belgian colonial authorities who judged his activities to be dangerous

2:12 AM on Friday, April 10

Negotiators from Iran and the U.S. are preparing for high-level talks

2:10 AM on Friday, April 10

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukrainian military personnel shot down Iranian-designed Shahed drones in multiple Middle Eastern countries during the Iran war, describing the operations as part of a broader effort to help partners counter the same weapons used by Russia in Ukraine

1:45 AM on Friday, April 10

Taiwan's opposition leader has met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, marking the first such encounter in over a decade

1:31 AM on Friday, April 10

World shares are mostly higher tracking Wall Street gains while oil prices have also risen on the fragile Iran war ceasefire and ahead of Iran-U.S. talks that are expected to take place in Pakistan

1:08 AM on Friday, April 10

Pope Leo XIV’s trip to Africa is so dizzying in its complexity it recalls some of the early globetrotting odysseys of St. John Paul II

1:03 AM on Friday, April 10

Pope Leo XIV is making a long and ambitious odyssey across four African countries -- Algeria, Angola, Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea

12:31 AM on Friday, April 10

Kuwait has accused Iran of launching drone attacks despite the ceasefire in the Iran war

12:15 AM on Friday, April 10

Babies too young to be vaccinated are among the most vulnerable in measles outbreaks like the one in South Carolina, which is the largest the U.S. has seen in decades

12:06 AM on Friday, April 10

12:04 AM on Friday, April 10

President Donald Trump's efforts to exit the war in Iran are causing tension within the Republican Party

12:02 AM on Friday, April 10

Donald Trump is accustomed to criticism from coast to coast — Democrats, disaffected Republicans, late-night comedians, protesters

12:01 AM on Friday, April 10

President Donald Trump is tasking the member of his inner circle who has seemed to be the most reluctant defender of the conflict with Iran to now find a resolution to the war that began six weeks ago

11:09 PM on Thursday, April 9

7:04 PM on Thursday, April 9

Authorities say a man shot and killed a central California sheriff’s deputy while authorities were serving an eviction notice

6:30 PM on Thursday, April 9

Inflation probably rose to 3.4% in March compared with a year ago, economists estimate, which would be a sharp increase from February’s 2.4% increase

5:11 PM on Thursday, April 9

Venezuelan lawmakers have approved a bill to regulate mining as the country seeks to attract leery foreign investors to a once-private industry that has long been exploited by criminal groups with ties to the government

12:11 AM on Thursday, April 9

Authorities say a stairwell roof at a parking garage being built in Philadelphia collapsed suddenly, killing one person and leaving two missing and presumed dead

3:27 AM on Friday, March 27

Pakistan has emerged as a key mediator between Iran and the United States, hosting talks in Islamabad this week

12:13 PM on Monday, March 23