Hints and tips:
...Pope Francis deliberately jumped into that conversation when he visited Marseille last week....
...EU commission president Ursula von der Leyen meets Christian Democrat leaders in Berlin, attends ceremony for former chancellor Angela Merkel....
...Germany, then enjoying a booming economy, took in an unprecedented number with Chancellor Angela Merkel famously declaring: “We can do this.”...
...Angela Rippon, the newsreader, prances gaily in a chiffon dress; Margaret Thatcher smiles as only she can....
...Angela Rayner, Labour’s deputy leader tweeted after the ruling that whilst NHS staff were going without PPE: “Tory politicians saw an opportunity to line their mates pockets.”...
...Pope to Roma Pope Francis issued a call for greater inclusiveness towards Europe’s Roma, as he visited a deprived community settlement in Kosice in eastern Slovakia yesterday, writes FT’s central Europe...
...EU leaders such as Angela Merkel, Germany’s outgoing chancellor, still seek dialogue. But Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the PiS leader, is intensifying the conflict....
...Relative spring chicken Angela White, 60, set the record last year. She was nine times as fast, although carried nothing and slept in a motorhome....
...Germany’s election season is kicking into gear and both Angela Merkel’s centre-right CDU/CSU and the up-and-coming Greens have published their election manifestos....
...The summit is also likely to be Angela Merkel’s last as chancellor of a sitting government before September’s federal elections. It may well be marked by a final, dramatic Franco-German gambit....
...As the Vatican faces financial problems, Pope Francis asks if the Vatican’s costly news outlets, including L’Osservatore Romano, are worth the money, AP reports....
...On the eve of the anniversary, Pope Francis called for a “decisive” commitment to end fighting and rebuild the nation. (Reuters) What else we’re reading Hydrogen-powered planes: pie in the sky?...
...Pope Francis’s personal physician, Dr Fabrizio Soccorsi, died on Saturday as a result of Covid-19, the Vatican said....
...(FAZ, FT) Pope Francis has called for constructive dialogue amid rising tensions in the eastern Mediterranean....
...Pope Francis refused to meet Mr Pompeo to avoid boosting Donald Trump....
...He met Pope Francis last week and will meet German chancellor Angela Merkel and France’s president Emmanuel Macron this week. How did it get to this?...
...When a poor steer from courtiers means the Queen nearly appears before the Pope wrongly attired, Kelly reveals two Pope-apprope dresses she’s had secretly made and saves the day with a fairy godmotherly...
...Angela Merkel and Pope Francis are among the many leaders who have been kept waiting by the notoriously unpunctual Vladimir Putin. They had little choice....
...Germany’s Angela Merkel, a Protestant, rarely refers to God in public. This places the weight of spiritual reassurances on religious leaders, including Pope Francis....
...Pope Francis, who has been suffering from a cold for the last few days, has tested negative for the coronavirus, according to local media reports....
...As the Italian death toll from the Covid-19 pandemic reached grim new heights last Sunday, Pope Francis broke strict quarantine rules to visit the church of San Marcello in central Rome....
...Leo Varadkar, the Irish taoiseach, joked that it was often quicker “to elect a pope”....
...His teachers at Villa Nazareth included Pietro Parolin, now number two to Pope Francis in the Vatican....
...Leo Varadkar, the Irish premier, joked that it was very often “quicker to elect a Pope . . . than it is to fill these particular positions”....
...It is “quicker to elect a pope” than pick a new set of presidents for the EU, Irish premier Leo Varadkar quipped....
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