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Pope Leo to hold iconic mass at Spain’s Sagrada Família cathedral

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By Raf Sanchez 
| NBC News
June 9, 2026, 10:27 AM EDT BARCELONA, Spain — Pope Leo XIV will hold Mass at Barcelona’s iconic La Sagrada Familia on Wednesday where he will offer a papal blessing to the highest spire of what is now the tallest church in the world. Sagrada Familia’s distinctive Modernist basilica has been under construction for more than 140 years but, in February, work finally finished on the central Tower of Jesus Christ, which stands at 566 feet high and is crowned with a gigantic five-story ceramic cross.
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Why a luxury resort plan by Trump’s son-in-law sparked mass protests in Albania

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By Mithil Aggarwal, Raf Sanchez , Mo Abbas
| NBC News
June 7, 2026, 5:00 AM EDT President Donald Trump’s son-in-law has a formidable new opponent: a pink flamingo. The protected bird has emerged as the symbol of a surging protest movement against a Jared Kushner-backed plan for a luxury resort on the picturesque Adriatic coast.
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Uganda’s Ghetto Kids will dance with Shakira at World Cup final halftime show

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By Mithil Aggarwal, Raf Sanchez , Isabella Colletta
| NBC News
May 27, 2026, 5:45 PM EDT Their unlikely journey started dancing barefoot on a dusty street in 2014. Now the Ghetto Kids — a Ugandan dance troupe whose joyful, hard-to-believe moves have earned millions of followers on social media — will be bringing that energy to the FIFA World Cup final in New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium. Shakira announced last week that the group, made up of orphaned or vulnerable children, will be joining her for the final July 19.
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