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00:00Pope Francis continued to rest in hospital three weeks after he was admitted with pneumonia in both lungs.
00:12Pope Francis continued to rest in hospital on Friday, three weeks after he was admitted with pneumonia in both lungs.
00:22On Thursday, he thanked people for their prayers in an audio message broadcast.
00:28The Vatican has given twice daily updates on Pope Francis' medical condition, but has distributed no photos or videos of him since the morning of the 14th of February.
00:40Doctors on Thursday reported that the Pope was in stable condition, with no new respiratory crises or fever, and that he continued his respiratory and other physical therapy.
00:51His prognosis remains guarded, meaning he is not out of danger.
00:59The 88-year-old pontiff has chronic lung disease and had part of one lung removed as a young man.
01:05Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for an air and sea truce after Ukraine came under fire by a massive Russian drone and missile attack.
01:22Russia fired 67 missiles from air, land and sea and launched 194 strike and decoy drones that is according to Ukraine's air force.
01:32At least 10 people, including a child, were wounded.
01:36Zelensky wrote that the Odessa, Potava, Chernihiv, Kharkiv and Ternopil regions were struck.
01:43Russia mainly targeted Ukraine's energy infrastructure, including the Black Sea port of Odessa, which was struck in the early hours of Friday.
01:52The attack came hours after Zelensky confirmed talks with the U.S. on ending Russia's full-scale invasion, which will take place next week in Saudi Arabia.
02:06Thousands of protesters took to the streets across Slovakia to demonstrate against populist Prime Minister Robert Fico and his pro-Russian policies.
02:14Protests have been taking place regularly since late December after the Slovak Premier visited Moscow to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
02:23The trip was a rare visit by a European Union leader to the Kremlin since it launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
02:31Protesters accuse him of abandoning Europe, favoring to align with Russia instead.
02:36Fico has on multiple occasions threatened to pull Slovakia out of the EU and NATO.
02:41His closest aides have also recently enraged the public after expressing pro-Russian sentiments.
02:47His chief advisor has recently stated that Slovakia will finally have a reliable neighbor if Russia were to conquer Ukraine.
02:54Fico, whose leftist mayor party won a parliamentary election in 2023, has employed a highly anti-Ukraine stance.
03:02Since he assumed office, he's ended Slovakia's military and financial support for Kiev, criticized EU sanctions on Russia, and vowed to block Ukraine from joining NATO.
03:15A 12-hour operation to defuse an unexploded WWII-era bomb near France's busiest train station was completed successfully.
03:22In the early hours of Friday, French railway operator SNCF uncovered an object they suspected was a bomb near the tracks leading to Paris's Gare du Nord station.
03:42The defusal operation, which police decided to conduct on site, has caused hours-long delays and cancellations to travel.
03:49French authorities say some 500 trains were cancelled, impacting around 600,000 travelers in the Parisian station.
03:56But the station, servicing international Eurostar routes, has impacted more travelers than just within the French capital.
04:11The discovery of unexploded WWI and II bombs are not uncommon in France, but they're rarely found in urban and populous areas.
04:19Authorities are thankful a horrific tragedy was narrowly missed.