Black smoke emerged from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday night, signalling that the gathered cardinals had did not elect Pope Francis’s successor of their first spherical of voting.
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Black smoke alerts cloistered cardinals’ failure to elect new pope on first attempt | EUROtoday
