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Archbishop Angelo Roncalli had worked to save Jews while serving as nuncio, or ambassador, to Turkey, early in the Second World War, and had spent much of his time there in the company of Orthodox Christians and Muslims.
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Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2025
After appealing to the papal nuncio and the patriarchate for help organizing an evacuation, a convoy left carrying around 30 residents — mostly families with children — escorted by the Lebanese military.
—Zoya Awky, NBC News, 2 Oct. 2024
Viganò was recalled as U.S. ambassador, or apostolic nuncio, in 2016.
—Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
Nunn’s daughter, Krista Bruckner, wrote in February to the Vatican’s U.S. nuncio or ambassador, Cardinal Christophe Pierre.
—Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
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Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2025
After appealing to the papal nuncio and the patriarchate for help organizing an evacuation, a convoy left carrying around 30 residents — mostly families with children — escorted by the Lebanese military.
—Zoya Awky, NBC News, 2 Oct. 2024
Viganò was recalled as U.S. ambassador, or apostolic nuncio, in 2016.
—Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
Nunn’s daughter, Krista Bruckner, wrote in February to the Vatican’s U.S. nuncio or ambassador, Cardinal Christophe Pierre.
—Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
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Greenland’s Sermitsiaq reported that Poirier had arrived Friday along with Canada’s delegation, but said the consul doesn’t yet have a physical consulate.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Feb. 2026
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At the same time, the barrage of vitriol unleashed by China castigating Takaichi as a warmongering militarist includes a reprehensible threat by the Chinese consul-general in Osaka about beheading Takaichi.—
Jeff Kingston,
Time,
30 Nov. 2025
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Speakers at the event include Kenneth Cole, fashion designer and social activist; Gabby Karan de Felice, restaurateur and Karan’s daughter; Rebecca Moses, fashion designer, illustrator and author, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, politician, lawyer and diplomat.—
Lisa Lockwood,
Footwear News,
11 Feb. 2026
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The diplomat testified alongside Austin Holmes, a Florida resident and security firm owner who coordinates humanitarian and security assistance in the Caribbean country.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
11 Feb. 2026
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Andrei Vyshinsky, procurator general in the 1930s, had overseen Stalin’s horrendous purges of millions of ordinary citizens – plus most of the members of the Communist Party Central Committee and top Soviet generals.—
Peter Bridges,
The Christian Science Monitor,
10 Jan. 2022
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The procurator of Roman Britain, Catus Decianus, ordered an extra two hundred men to Camulodunum and figured the problem was solved.—
Anne Thériault,
Longreads,
14 May 2021
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Anthony Anderson, 40, died when two sheriff’s deputies opened fire on him outside a house in the Fairmont Terrace neighborhood between San Leandro and Hayward, according to his mother, Kristina Anderson.—
Jakob Rodgers,
Mercury News,
11 Feb. 2026
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Rodgers, a former deputy chief of strategic initiatives in Dallas ISD, came to DeSoto ISD in 2022, at a time when the district needed stability.—
Silas Allen,
Dallas Morning News,
11 Feb. 2026
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Censori has taken from her mind the experience of becoming famous by proxy, of making your private self into something people consume.—
Anna Peele,
Vanity Fair,
6 Feb. 2026
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The latest tally marks an eight-week high and comes after a recent stretch where filings, which are considered a proxy for layoff activity, had hovered around two-year lows.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
5 Feb. 2026
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However, papal legates—diplomatic representatives—continue their external functions.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Apr. 2025
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In the 1520s Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal legate of England, drove forward a similar program of moral and financial reform, winding up a further 29 monasteries.—
Crawford Gribben,
WSJ,
29 Apr. 2022
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“Nuncio.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nuncio. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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