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Pope Leo 'won't back down' on Trump feud, friend says

Pope Leo will “not back down” from an escalating feud with US President Donald Trump, according to his friend and former colleague Father John Lydon. Speaking to CNN’s Kaitlin Collins, Father Lydon said Leo would not “get in the political muck, but he’s not going to back down on the principle values of the gospel, because that’s what his responsibility is to do.”

01:07 • Source: CNN
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Pope Leo 'won't back down' on Trump feud, friend says

Pope Leo will “not back down” from an escalating feud with US President Donald Trump, according to his friend and former colleague Father John Lydon. Speaking to CNN’s Kaitlin Collins, Father Lydon said Leo would not “get in the political muck, but he’s not going to back down on the principle values of the gospel, because that’s what his responsibility is to do.”

01:07 • Source: CNN
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Kim’s daughter absent from North Korean missile test

North Korea is ramping up cruise missile tests from a new warship just days before one of Pyongyang's most important national holidays. But Kim Jong Un’s daughter, increasingly seen as a likely successor, is not shown in state media. CNN’s Will Ripley reports.

00:55 • Source: CNN
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Russia pressures students to join drone force

See how Russia is trying to entice and pressure students to leave university and bolster its flagging military ranks.

01:44 • Source: CNN
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Fire breaks out at Chinese electric car facility

A fire broke out at a BYD parking facility in Shenzhen, China, where the company says it stores test and scrapped vehicles.

00:29 • Source: CNN
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Brazil's 80-year-old president Lula livestreams workout

Brazil's president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, 80, livestreamed his fitness routine in the run up to October elections.

00:59 • Source: CNN
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Super Typhoon Sinlaku passes over Northern Mariana Islands

Flash flood warnings are now in effect for Guam, Saipan and Tinian as bands of heavy rain from Super Typhoon Sinlaku continue to move across the region. Sinlaku is the first typhoon of the year in the West Pacific and one of the strongest early season storms on record.

00:30 • Source: CNN
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Far-right party adopts 'radical' manifesto in Germany

The AfD, Germany’s far-right party has adopted what’s been called a “radical” manifesto ahead of state elections in September. The AfD is surging in the polls across Germany. Their lead candidate, Ulrich Siegmund, in Saxony-Anhalt has a growing following on social media.

01:46 • Source: CNN