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President Joe Biden lands in South Korea for his first trip to Asia as US leader, aiming to cement ties with regional security allies as concern over a North Korean nuclear test grows. IMAGES
Pope Francis arrives at the celebrated mass on Sunday with several thousand worshippers spread across a stadium in the Kurdistan regional capital of Arbil, the largest liturgy of his trip to pandemic-hit Iraq. IMAGES
Baghdad, Mar 5 (EFE), (Camera: Cristina Cabrejas).- Pope Francis arrived in Baghdad on Friday for the first ever papal visit to Iraq, and his first trip abroad since the start of the coronavirus pandemic last year.He will meet members of the country’s Christian minority community which was persecuted by the Islamic State that occupied parts of Iraq for three years until the terror group was defeated in late 2017.Sectarian violence in the war-torn country has seen Iraq’s Christian population fall from 1.5 million in 2003 to just 300,000.FOOTAGE OF POPE FRANCIS ON BOARD OF THE PLANE THAT TOOK HIM TO IRAQ ON FRIDAY.
Pope Francis arrives to Baghdad International Airport on historic trip to Iraq. The 84-year-old, who said he was making the first-ever papal visit to Iraq as a "pilgrim of peace," will also reach out to Shiite Muslims when he meets Iraq's top cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani. IMAGES
US President Barack Obama arrives in Argentina after making a historic visit to former Cold War foe Cuba. IMAGES
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