On his last full day in Iraq, the pope on Sunday was surrounded by rubble on his visit to the once-vibrant city of Mosul. He prayed for victims of all faiths who had endured war and armed conflict.

The country, one of South America’s poorest, has received just a few thousand doses of Covid-19 vaccine. On Friday, the health minister resigned as doctors in full critical care units ran out of basic drugs.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been detained for five years on charges of plotting to overthrow the government that her family and supporters say are baseless.

A pipeline carrying partially refined oil under the Ob River in Siberia burst on Saturday and the spill caught fire on the river’s surface.

“This injection is very, very helpful,” said the 85-year-old Tibetan spiritual leader.

The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, received his first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine on Saturday, in Dharamsala, India. He urged others to “have courage” to get vaccinated.

At the end of May 1983, two pieces of Italian Renaissance armor went missing. The circumstances around their disappearance still remain a mystery.

Pope Francis on Saturday visited the ruins of Ur, Iraq, where he specifically condemned the persecution of the Yazidis, an ethnic minority group in the country and one of the world’s oldest religions.

The more transmissible and possibly more lethal B.1.1.7 variant already accounts for an estimated 20 percent of the nation’s infections.