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Ukraine has passed messages and lists of names to the papal nuncio in Kyiv, Archbishop Visvaldas Kulbokas, who forwards them via the Holy See to the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow, according to a Ukrainian official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.
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Isobel Koshiw, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
Ortega kicked out the papal nuncio, the Vatican's top diplomat in March.
—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
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Isobel Koshiw, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
Ortega kicked out the papal nuncio, the Vatican's top diplomat in March.
—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
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The vice consul’s story also intersects with two flashpoints in Iranian-American relations: a 1953 coup backed by the CIA and the 1979 Iran hostage crisis.Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
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Also making their company debuts are Korean baritone Kidon Choi as U.S. Embassy consul Sharpless and American mezzo-soprano Stephanie Doche as Suzuki, Cio-Cio San’s faithful maid.Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2024
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Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump Jr.'s fiancée, has been nominated as a United States diplomat, a day after he was seen holding hands with Florida socialite Bettina Anderson.Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
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He was born in Madrid, to a father who was a U.S. diplomat.Edward Wong, New York Times, 9 Dec. 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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America First, the nonprofit group founded by Stephen Miller, who is set to become Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy, took a victory lap after the ruling.Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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Nicholas Denny, a former Bibb County, Ga., sheriff's deputy, was revealed to have been fired by lead sheriff David Davis more than a year after the district attorney told the sheriff's office Denny lied about a local jailer committing a crime.Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports, arkansasonline.com, 9 Dec. 2024
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For context, MicroStrategy’s last bond offering paid 0% interest, and the overnight funding rate, which would be the proxy for a leveraged bitcoin ETF, is currently 4.75%.Mauricio Di Bartolomeo, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
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And eventually, proxies crumble, because (as Machiavelli wrote five centuries ago, about mercenaries and auxiliaries) nothing is as shockproof and reliable as a state army composed of citizens whose interests match your own.Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Dec. 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 Dec. 2024.
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