🇻🇦 - It could be the first time in history we lose a pope on Easter Monday.

🇪🇸🇻🇦 - King Felipe of Spain.

🇪🇸🇬🇧 - English Translation:

TELEGRAM

To His Most Reverend Eminence
Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re
Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals

From His Majesty the King of Spain

Your Most Reverend Eminence:

Upon receiving, with profound sadness, the news of the passing of His Holiness Pope Francis, I wish to convey to you, in my name, in that of the Government, and of the Spanish people, the expression of our deepest condolences.

His Holiness Pope Francis bore witness throughout his pontificate to the importance that love for one’s neighbor, fraternity, and social friendship hold for our world today. He will continue to inspire us with his conviction of the need to bring encouragement and comfort to the poorest and most in need, and with the importance he placed on dialogue and consensus to achieve a fairer and more supportive world.

In the face of the sorrow caused by his loss, the Queen and the entire Royal Family join me in extending to the entire Catholic Church our condolences and our affection, as well as our prayers for his eternal rest.

Receive, Your Most Reverend Eminence, the expression of my highest consideration and esteem.

Felipe R.

🇺🇸🇻🇦 - Trump to attend Pope Francis funeral later this week.

🇧🇦🇪🇺 - Jasmin Mujanović says Hungary and Croatia continue to aggressively lobby within Brussels to halt Dodik's arrest.

🇷🇸🇧🇦🇪🇺 ⁉️ - He also claims Serbia's Vučić is ready to serve Dodik on a silver platter if it helps him to get closer to Brussels and the relevant European capitals, as well as to choose Dodik's successor.

🇻🇦 - My 2 cents: Vatican will not pick Sarah as pope, but it will pick a little known "moderate" that will gradually "shift to the right".

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺 - Trump said he would reveal the contents of his proposed peace plan for the Ukraine war this week, which could include European troops.

Stop it. Cardinal Sarah won't be the next pope.

🇮🇳⚡️🇵🇰 UPDATE - Locals from Pakistan report of Indian Artillery Shelling ongoing in various places on the LoC.

However this still remains unconfirmed.

Here is the source. Factually, its a big source for the region. Some say its false. Won't lose time arguing endlessly over it, may be true, may be false, may turn true in 5 minutes.

🇯🇴 - Jordan bans the Muslim Brotherhood.

🇨🇳📸 — Recent image of the new "J-36" under development for the Chinese PLA.

🇮🇳🇵🇰 - Indus Water Treaty suspended.

🇳🇱🇧🇪 - Dutch Speaker of the House of Representatives Martin Bosma suggests annexing Flanders and ending Belgium:

The Netherlands want Flanders to join them. Wallonia can go to France.

According to press reports, this proposal was made to the French ambassador to the Netherlands, François Alabrune, during a dinner.

It seems like one or several peninsula states were inspired by the Trump administration's "renaming" of the Gulf of Mexico