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Pope says he regrets remarks interpreted as debate with Trump

Pope Leo XIV moved to tamp down talk of a clash with President Donald Trump, saying he regretted that recent remarks had been taken as a rebuttal to the US leader and stressing that he had no desire to engage in a public dispute. Speaking to journalists while travelling to Angola, the Pope pointed to a speech he delivered on Thursday in Cameroon — during the second leg of his African tour — in which he spoke of "tyrants" ransacking the world. He said the text had been prepared well before Mr Trump's "comment on myself and on…