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Newspaper front pages in Chiclayo, in northern Peru, show headlines claiming the new Pope as one of their own, from "The Pope is Peruvian and he misses ceviche" to "From Chiclayo to the Vatican." Leo XIV first set foot in Peru some four decades ago as a missionary, before becoming bishop of the diocese of Chiclayo in the northwest of the country and gaining citizenship in 2015. IMAGES
People gather at a church being used as a meeting point on Chile's Easter Island following an evacuation order issued after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Russia's far eastern Kamchatka peninsula earlier, prompting evacuations and tsunami alerts across parts of the Pacific coast. IMAGES
Israel says it will begin letting trucks of baby food into the Gaza Strip on Monday, the first aid to be admitted since it announced the lifting of a total blockade imposed on March 2. "Today, Israel is facilitating the entry of trucks with baby food into Gaza," foreign ministry director general Eden Bar Tal tells reporters in Jerusalem. SOUNDBITE
French President Emmanuel Macron and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre hold a bilateral meeting at Akershus Fortress in Oslo. It marks the first visit of a French president to Norway, a NATO member but not part of the European Union, since François Mitterrand's visit in 1984. IMAGES
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