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World Politics & Diplomacy 05 Oct 2026, 11:33 AM IST

Pope Uses Saint Francis to Frame a Message of Peace Through Fraternity

At the Angelus, Pope Francis invoked Saint Francis of Assisi as a model for building peace through fraternal love, linking the saint’s legacy to a world still marked by conflict and division. The remarks come as Italy and the wider Catholic world mark the 800th anniversary of Saint Francis’s death, renewing attention on his spiritual and political relevance.

By RDU Global Wire5 min read
Lifestyle & Culture2026-03-15T09:30:00.000Z

Oscars 2026: Hollywood Reclaims Formal Glamour in Custom Armani Privé, Valentino and Saint Laurent

At the 2026 Academy Awards in Los Angeles, the red carpet settled back into a mood of disciplined glamour, with custom Armani Privé, Valentino and Saint Laurent column gowns setting the evening's most persuasive tone. The look was less about spectacle than control: liquid satin, engineered drape and exacting tailoring restored a sense of old-Hollywood polish to a season-long conversation about elegance, restraint and power dressing.

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Fashion & Luxury2026-08-10T09:30:00.000Z

Kering's Second Quarter Shows Bottega Veneta and Saint Laurent Holding the Line in a Volatile Luxury Market

Kering reported second-quarter results in New York on Monday, underscoring how Bottega Veneta and Yves Saint Laurent have become the group's most reliable engines of retail resilience as luxury demand remains uneven across key markets. The figures suggested a market still defined by caution, but one in which disciplined merchandising, sharper brand codes and elevated leather goods continue to command consumer attention.

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Fashion & Luxury2026-09-28T09:30:00.000Z

Paris Fashion Week Opens as Saint Laurent Recasts 1980s Power Dressing at the Trocadéro

Paris Fashion Week SS27 opened with Saint Laurent staging a disciplined, cinematic return to 1980s tailoring at the Trocadéro fountain, where sculptural shoulders, elongated lines and lacquered eveningwear framed the city's skyline. In a season likely to be read through the lens of commercial caution and cultural nostalgia, the house offered a sharply controlled proposition: glamour engineered as architecture.

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World Politics & DiplomacyRecently

Church Leadership Sustains New Area Seventy at October 2026 General Conference Meeting

A new Area Seventy was sustained during the October 2026 General Conference leadership meeting, marking a routine but consequential personnel action within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The appointment underscores the church’s continuing effort to maintain regional leadership capacity across a global membership base that spans multiple continents and administrative jurisdictions.

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World Politics & DiplomacyRecently

Four Killed, Four Wounded in Mass Shooting Near St. Vincent’s Capital

Police in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines are investigating a mass shooting that left four people dead and four others injured near Kingstown, the capital of the Caribbean island nation. The attack has jolted a country better known for luxury tourism and yachting than large-scale gun violence, raising fresh concerns about public safety and the spread of firearms in the region.

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World Politics & Diplomacy03 Oct 2026, 08:35 AM IST

Vatican Faces High-Stakes Test as 'Amoris' Meeting Nears

The Vatican is preparing for a closely watched meeting tied to the legacy of Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia, a document that has reshaped debate over pastoral practice, doctrine, and the Church’s approach to divorced and civilly remarried Catholics. While no dramatic announcement is guaranteed, the gathering is drawing intense scrutiny because it could clarify how Rome intends to manage one of the most sensitive fault lines in global Catholicism.

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Disrupt Week Expands Beyond Moscone West as KOTRA, WayFounder, Enterprise Ireland, SafetyWing and Descope Unveil New 2026 Side Events

San Francisco’s Disrupt Week is widening into a citywide startup circuit, with new side events from KOTRA, WayFounder, Enterprise Ireland, SafetyWing and Descope adding dinners, investor meetups, workshops and roundtables to the conference calendar. The programming underscores how major tech gatherings are increasingly functioning as distributed dealmaking platforms for founders, investors and operators in frontier AI and machine learning.

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Pope says abuse ‘scourge’ must be rooted out during Lourdes visit

Pope Francis has renewed his call for the Catholic Church to confront clerical abuse without equivocation, describing it as a “scourge” that must be rooted out. Speaking during a visit to Lourdes, one of Catholicism’s most important pilgrimage sites, the pope used the moment to underscore the moral and institutional urgency of safeguarding victims and restoring trust.

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