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Top African cardinal in Vatican abruptly offers resignation - sources

Cardinal Peter Turkson at the Vatican on June 18, 2015. [Reuters]

Cardinal Peter Turkson, seen by some as a candidate to become the first African pope in about 1,500 years, has abruptly offered his resignation from a key Vatican department, sources familiar with the matter said on Saturday.

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