VATICAN CITY — Amid the latest bloodshed in the Middle East, Pope Francis led special Friday evening prayers in St. Peter’s Basilica for a world “in a dark hour” and in “great danger” from what he described as the folly of war. He said he was praying for “especially those countries and regions at war,” and he pleaded with Mary …
TOKYO — President Joe Biden told fellow Indo-Pacific leaders assembled for a four-country summit Tuesday that they were navigating “a dark hour in our shared history” due to Russia’s brutal war on Ukraine and he urged the group to make a greater effort to stop Vladimir Putin’s aggression. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, taking note of Russia’s aggression in Ukraine, …
