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Ortega kicked out the papal nuncio, the Vatican's top diplomat in March.
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Megan Janetsky, ajc, 13 Feb. 2023
In 2016, Pope Francis appointed Russell as apostolic nuncio to Turkey and Turkmenistan, and gave him that same year the title of archbishop.
—Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 3 Aug. 2022
Among those who denounced him were respected conservative politicians and the papal nuncio in Munich, Eugenio Pacelli, who would later become Pope Pius XII.
—Michael Brenner, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2022
The man on the other end of the line identified himself as the papal nuncio.
—Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 30 May 2022
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Megan Janetsky, ajc, 13 Feb. 2023
In 2016, Pope Francis appointed Russell as apostolic nuncio to Turkey and Turkmenistan, and gave him that same year the title of archbishop.
—Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 3 Aug. 2022
Among those who denounced him were respected conservative politicians and the papal nuncio in Munich, Eugenio Pacelli, who would later become Pope Pius XII.
—Michael Brenner, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2022
The man on the other end of the line identified himself as the papal nuncio.
—Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 30 May 2022
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The conflict took place while Rome’s consuls were waging a military campaign elsewhere.Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Oct. 2024
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The deeper characters in this production are her maid, Suzuki, and Sharpless, the American consul.Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2024
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Germany expelled two Iranian diplomats last year over Sharmahd’s death sentence.Geir Moulson, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
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Indian Denials and Nijjar's Legacy India has repeatedly denied these allegations, responding by expelling six Canadian diplomats.Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
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Andrei Vyshinsky, procurator general in the 1930s, had overseen Stalin’s horrendous purges of millions of ordinary citizens – plus most of the members of the Communist Party Central Committee and top Soviet generals.Peter Bridges, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2022
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The procurator of Roman Britain, Catus Decianus, ordered an extra two hundred men to Camulodunum and figured the problem was solved.Anne Thériault, Longreads, 14 May 2021
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Hager finished his 35-year military career as deputy commanding general for operations, Cyber National Mission Force and mobilization assistant to the commander for USCYBERCOM.Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 9 Nov. 2024
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Firefighters and sheriff's deputies push a vintage car away from a burning home in Camarillo, Calif., on Wednesday.Phil Helsel, NBC News, 8 Nov. 2024
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The stock has been seen as a proxy for betting on the former president’s likelihood of winning the race for the White House.Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2024
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Israel's attack signals the failure of Tehran's national-security doctrine, which was based on outsourcing the job of fighting Israel to local proxies such as Hamas and Hezbollah.The Week UK, theweek, 2 Nov. 2024
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In the 1520s Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal legate of England, drove forward a similar program of moral and financial reform, winding up a further 29 monasteries.Crawford Gribben, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2022
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The Franciscan Plano Carpini, who traveled the empire as papal legate in 1246, described a draconian tax collector demanding one in three boys from every Russian family, as well as unmarried women.Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2021
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“Nuncio.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nuncio. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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