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Pope Francis’s appealed to pray for peace and urged leaders to negotiate on the future of Ukraine as the war-torn nation was reeling Sunday from massive Russian strikes that, besides soldiers, also killed more than a dozen civilians over the weekend. Russia, in turn, accused Ukraine of hitting Europe’s largest nuclear power plant. The reported attacks came amid calls by Kyiv for better air defenses and calls for a world summit on peace.

Some 100,000 Hungarians, many waving flags, marched through Budapest on Saturday in the largest demonstration in years against the country’s perceived authoritarian leadership.

The nationalist left government’s pro-Russia candidate, Peter Pellegrini, has won Slovakia’s presidential election with about 53 percent of the vote, in an outcome due to worry the West.

About 200,000 deportation cases have been thrown out by immigration judges, according to a new report published by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.

Voters in Slovakia were returning to the polls Saturday for the second round of their small country’s presidential election, in which they choose whether to move towards the European Union or Russia.

In an area typically not associated with seismic activity, Lebanon, New Jersey, was hit by a 4.8 magnitude quake, shortly followed by a 4.0 magnitude aftershock that affected New York City, Philadelphia, and surrounding regions, marking the most powerful earthquake to strike the region in 140 years.

U.S. President Joe Biden has urged the leaders of Egypt and Qatar to pressure Hamas to agree to a Gaza ceasefire while also questioning Israel’s tactics amid a rising death toll.

Israel’s military confirmed Friday that it fired two officers and reprimanded three others for their roles in the deadly drone strikes against aid workers in Gaza, which was condemned by crucial allies.

Israeli embassies are on high alert amid concerns they will be targeted by Iran, which vowed revenge for Israel’s alleged assassination of the senior commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

The United States pledged Thursday that Ukraine will eventually join the U.S.-led NATO military alliance despite Moscow’s opposition and massive overnight Russian attacks.