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The trial for two men accused of cutting down the 200-year-old Hadrian’s Wall tree opened Tuesday in northeastern England. Both pleaded not guilty.

The Vatican said that Francis had stripped a convicted cardinal, Angelo Becciu, of his right to vote for the next pope. Cardinal Becciu maintains his innocence but said he would sit this one out.

The administration had said that no senior U.S. envoys could attend the events marking 50 years after the war’s end. On Tuesday, the U.S. consul general was seen at a reception for the anniversary.

Russian forces launched 100 attack drones across Ukraine overnight, hours after President Vladimir V. Putin ordered a unilateral three-day cease-fire starting on May 8.

“It feels like I lost my whole extended family,” one survivor said.

Electricity returned to much of Spain and Portugal a day after a blackout affected critical infrastructure. The cause of the outage remained unclear.

It was a stunning upset for the Conservative Party leader, who was first elected in 2004.

Cardinal Luis Tagle of the Philippines is known as the “Asian Francis.” But he has been criticized for not being vocal enough about his country’s brutal drug war and clerical sex abuse.

One sailor sustained minor injuries, according to the Navy, which is investigating the incident.

Power outages disrupted daily life and left millions of people in the dark.