VATICAN CITY: Pope Leo XIV on June 13, Friday morning received President Joseph Aoun of Lebanon in a private audience in the ...

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I have visited Iran twice. Once in June 1980 to witness an unprecedented event: the world’s first Islamic Revolution. It was the very start of my writing career. The second time ...