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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The FBI's announcement that it recently came upon new emails possibly pertinent to the Hillary Clinton email investigation raised more questions than answers....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Good riddance to Campaign 2016, the election that put the "ugh" in ugly....
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of Manila has joined in spreading the word to children and families about the Zika virus as the number of cases continues to rise in the country.The cardinal has issued a pastoral guidance which aims to help raise awareness about the mosquito-borne disease, and linked to serious birth defects.Eradicating potential mosquito breeding sites and protecting pregnant women are among the key messages of the guideline released this month to parishes and Catholic schools in Manila.The cardinal particularly asked the faithful to adopt the “4S” strategy of the Health department against the mosquito carrying Zika and other mosquito-borne diseases.The 4S means Search and destroy mosquito-breeding places, use Self-protection measures, Seek early consultation for fever lasting more than 2 days and Say yes to fogging when there is an impending outbreak.The cardinal also said everyone should be attentive to the following symptoms: fever, rash, joint pains, m...
Rome, Italy, Oct 29, 2016 / 03:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Archbishop Paulino Luduku Loro of Jubo, South Sudan has said that when it comes to the dramatic and widespread phenomena of child soldiers in his country’s conflict, the only way to stop it is to end the fighting and focus on talking about the issues.“The only solution we have been saying is stop fighting, stop war, so that we fight in dialogue. Because there are reasons why these people, these child soldiers are fighting,” Archbishop Paulino Luduku Loro told CNA Oct. 27.Many children, he noted, “are maybe not simply caught by the government,” but choose to fight on their own.“It's because they feel the problem, they are grieved, they feel that there is an injustice in the administration of the government and here you have young boys, young children, by themselves. They are not even recruited by anybody,” he said.Recruitment of child soldiers in South Sudan is among the worst in the ...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- Bob Dylan has accepted the 2016 Nobel Prize for literature, the Swedish Academy said, adding that getting the prestigious award left him "speechless."...
BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian government forces launched a counteroffensive Saturday under the cover of airstrikes in an attempt to regain control of areas they had lost to insurgents the day before in the northern city of Aleppo, activists and state media said....
SHURA, Iraq (AP) -- Iraqi forces pushed into a town south of Mosul on Saturday after Islamic State fighters fled with civilians used as human shields, as state-sanctioned Shiite militias joined the offensive by opening up a new front to the west....
(Vatican Radio) Canada and the European Union will sign a landmark free trade deal Sunday after a series of key votes in Belgian regional assemblies ended opposition that had threatened to destroy the entire agreement.Listen to Stefan Bos’ report:
(Vatican Radio) A general strike called by the opposition coalition in Venezuela, has only been partially successful.Listen to James Blears’ report: The opposition demanded for a nationwide strike, but many of the poorer districts of Caracas, and fanning out nationwide, could not afford the luxury of withdrawing their labor for a full day. President Nicolas Maduro has urged many shops, schools banks and the petroleum industry, to simply ignored the strike. He is threatening to seize striking businesses and jail yet more political opponents. He is also warning that if they demand a supposed political trail, which is not part of the Constitution, the State Prosecutor must apply legislation and jail anyone who violates the Constitution.Officials have promised to increase the minimum wage by 40 percent, trying to hold back the disintegrating economic sluice gates, and with it a deluge. But in reality it`s a saturated milksop, as...
CHICAGO (AP) -- Rich Buhrke has been chasing down baseballs outside Wrigley Field since 1959. He used to tell the rest of us ballhawks when we left for jobs far from Chicago that one day we'd find our way back to the corner of Waveland and Kenmore....
