World Briefing Plus

A look behind the headlines: Papal Conclave, Pakistan-India tensions, Ukraine-Russia war

With headlines breaking around the globe, it’s the perfect time to take a deeper look. In this video edition of World Briefing Plus, we begin with the sight of black smoke rising at the close of the first day of the papal conclave in the Vatican—no pope yet. Then we turn to South Asia, where tensions are dangerously escalating between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan. Finally, we examine Russia’s newly announced unilateral ceasefire, which Ukraine has dismissed as a “theatrical performance” aimed at easing Moscow’s global isolation ahead of Victory Day.