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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korean President Park Geun-hye said Tuesday that she'll resign - if parliament arranges the technical details - in her latest attempt to fend off impeachment efforts and massive street protests amid prosecution claims that a corrupt confidante wielded government power from the shadows....
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says Islamic State group fighters lack the courage to put up long-term resistance in Mosul, despite unleashing hundreds of car bombs that have killed and maimed Iraqi soldiers and civilians as the fight for Iraq's second-largest city appears set to extend well into next year....
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- The Latest on the Colombia plane crash involving members of a Brazilian soccer team (all times local):...
MEDELLIN, Colombia (AP) -- A chartered aircraft with 81 people on board, including a Brazilian first division soccer team heading to Colombia for a regional tournament final, has crashed on its way to Medellin's international airport....
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- The embattled South Korean president announced Tuesday that she would make a public announcement amid a push by lawmakers for impeachment and growing public calls for her resignation....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump has selected Georgia Rep. Tom Price, a leading critic of President Barack Obama's sweeping health care law, to head the Department of Health and Human Services, according to a person familiar with the decision....
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says Islamic State fighters lack the courage to put up long-term resistance in Mosul, despite unleashing hundreds of car bombs that have killed and maimed Iraqi soldiers and civilians as the fight for Iraq's second-largest city appears set to extend well into next year....
Edinburgh, Scotland, Nov 28, 2016 / 03:07 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Need to find confession nearby at the drop of a dime? There’s an app for that.The Archdiocese of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh announced last Tuesday at St. Peter's Square the first ever GPS-powered confession finder that uses technology to connect individuals with the closest confession and Mass times.“This is a little bit of smart technology that could make a big impact on how the Catholic Church brings the mercy of God and the joy of the Gospel to our contemporary world,” Archbishop Leo Cushley of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh stated, according to the Telegraph.“The idea was really inspired by the Holy Father himself. He said to be imaginative about what to do for the Holy Year of Mercy,” Archbishop Cushley told Vatican Radio. The archdiocese hopes the app will increase Mass attendance and help Catholics aged 18-55 to become more fully engaged within the local Church. Ultimately, th...
Guadalajara, Mexico, Nov 28, 2016 / 05:35 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Archbishop of Guadalajara has announced that his diocese is calling off its distribution of a list of missing persons, because of fears of retaliation against family and friends of those who have gone missing in the Mexican state of Jalisco.“The people, because of fear, do not want their names to appear,” Cardinal José Francisco Robles Ortega explained in a statement on the archdiocese’s decision.Within the past four years, drug cartels and organized crime have led to a massive uptick in violence and kidnappings across Mexico. Catholic priests and laypersons who have spoken out against the cartels’ crimes and activities have faced especially sharp persecution for their opposition to the violence.In the past three months, the Archdiocese of Guadalajara, the capital of Jalisco, has been asking for names of persons who have disappeared within the region. Originally, these names would be co...
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Government orders for protesters of the Dakota Access pipeline to leave federal land could have little immediate effect on the encampment where scores of people have been gathered for months to oppose the $3.8 billion project....
