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• Pope Francis's f-bomb: Pope mispeaks, utters Italian curse word during weekly sermon from the Vatican.

  "The above clip is from Pope Francis' weekly blessing from the Vatican, footage of which normally goes unnoticed by your Twitter feed and mine. Then again it's not everyday that the Holy See accidentally drops a curse word while speaking from a window in St. Peter's Square. "

  tags: CatholicChurch pope popefrancis argentina vatican italy

• Russia’s Aggression - NYTimes.com

  "There was a lot to criticize about the way President Viktor Yanukovych’s government was thrown out in Ukraine and hurriedly replaced with an interim team. The victorious opposition should have known how critical it was to reassure all groups in that country that their rights would be respected in any new order; instead, one of the Parliament’s first actions was to abolish a law that ensured a legal status for Russian and other minority languages, thus raising fears among Russian speakers that Ukrainian nationalists were taking over. "

  tags: ukraine russia revolution balanceofpower politics europe

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