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​People stay at a school, which is functioned as the temporary shelter at flooded area, on November 30, 2025 in Sumatra, Sumatra. The authorities in Indonesia were searching on Sunday for hundreds of people they said were missing after days of unusually heavy rains across Southeast Asia that have killed hundreds and displaced millions.
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Hard Numbers: Mother Nature batters South and Southeast Asia, Netanyahu asks for a pardon, Aussies get in kayaks to protest coal, Trump commutes sentence of fraudster, Leo makes first foreign trip as pope

800: The death toll from the tropical storm that battered parts of Southeast Asia is now close to 800.

Pope Leo XIV in Vatican City on November 9, 2025.
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Pope vs president: could Leo sway American Catholic voters?

It’s been six months since the Catholic Church elected its first American pope, Leo XIV. Since then, the Chicago-born pontiff has had sharp words for US President Donald Trump.

King Charles III says goodbye to Pope Leo XIV in the San Damaso Courtyard, in St Peter's Square, on October 23, 2025.
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Hard Numbers: Pope and king pray together, Gazans bury unidentified dead, Cast of crabs begin Christmas Island migration, & More