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(Vatican Radio) People in Switzerland voting in a referendum have rejected a proposal to accelerate the country’s exit from nuclear energy with a strict timetable. Official results showed more than half of the voters, some 54 percent, voted against the initiative.Listen to Stephan Bos' report: The outcome of Sunday's referendum on nuclear energy energy came as a setback for Switzerland's Green Party. A yes vote would have limited the reactors lifespan to 45 years. That would have meant the closure of three of the alpine nation's five nuclear plants next year, with the last shutting in 2029.However after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, the Swiss government only adopted a gradualist approach toward transitioning the country to renewable energy by 2050.It said nuclear plants should continue to operate as long as they are deemed safe. But it refused to set a precise timetable as demanded by the Greens.NEEDING TIMEThe government said it "needs time&q...
DENVER (AP) -- Tyreek Hill just got his name mentioned in the same sentence with Gale Sayers....
SIERRA MADRE MOUNTAINS, Philippines (AP) -- In the late-night hours and amid the chirp of crickets, Katryn welcomed a huddle of exhausted Filipino journalists in cheerful spirits like she was home. "Coffee?" she asked with a comforting smile....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two years after being brought to the U.S. to face charges in an attempted attack on American forces in Afghanistan, Irek Hamidullin is arguing he should never have been prosecuted at all....
BEIRUT (AP) -- The Latest on the conflict in Syria (all times local):...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Cyber Monday may be in danger of losing its online sales title....
MIAMI (AP) -- Isabella Prio was born in Miami, is 20 now and a junior at Boston College who fully expects to return to Cuba someday and help shape the island's future. But she's never been to the country where her grandfather was once president and refuses to visit until it's a democracy....
NEW YORK (AP) -- With his return to New York, President-elect Donald Trump faces a pressing need to set more of the foundation blocks of his presidency in place by filling vacancies for secretary of state and other top posts....
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Police had already increased patrols in New Orleans' bustling French Quarter before gunfire erupted early Sunday, leaving one man dead and nine other people wounded in a tourist district famed for its bars, bright lights and live music....
GOMA, Congo (AP) -- More than 4 million children have lost at least one parent in Congo over the past two decades, the silent victims of continuous cycles of violence....
