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SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) -- Bulgarians are heading to the polls for the third time in four years in a snap vote that could tilt the European Union's poorest member country closer to Russia....
LONDON (AP) -- British police investigating an assault on Parliament that claimed four victims and wounded dozens say they still believe the assailant acted alone....
HONG KONG (AP) -- A committee dominated by pro-Beijing elites chose Hong Kong's next leader Sunday in the first vote since huge pro-democracy protests erupted over the election system in 2014....
ATLANTA (AP) -- Americans who have benefited from the Affordable Care Act are feeling some relief at the failure of Republican efforts to repeal it, but they face new anxieties with President Donald Trump tweeting that "ObamaCare will explode."...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Cindy WoodenROME (CNS) -- Visiting Milan, the center of Italian fashionand finance, Pope Francis spent the morning with the poor and those whominister to them.He had lunch at the city's historic San Vittore prison,where all 893 inmates -- men and women -- are awaiting trial. But Pope Francis began his visit March 25 on the outskirtsof the city, at the "White Houses," a housing development for thepoor built in the 1970s. Three families welcomed the pope into theirapartments: Stefano Pasquale, 59, who is ill and cared for by his 57-year-oldwife, Dorotee; a Muslim couple and their three children from Morocco; and theOnetes. Nuccio Onete, 82, was home for the pope's visit, but hiswife, Adele, was hospitalized with pneumonia three days earlier, so the popecalled her on the telephone.The people of the neighborhood gave Pope Francis a handmadewhite stole, which he put on before addressing the crowd.The fact that it was homemade, he said, "makes it muchmore preciou...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Cindy WoodenROME (CNS) -- Pope Francis asked 45,000 children preparingfor confirmation to promise Jesus they would never engage in bullying.Turning stern during a lively and laughter-filled encounterMarch 25, Pope Francis told the youngsters he was very worried about thegrowing phenomenon of bullying. He asked them to be silent and reflect on if there weretimes when they made fun of someone for how they looked or behaved. And, as acondition of their confirmation, he made them promise Jesus that they wouldnever tease or bully anyone.The pope ended his daylong visit to Milan by participatingin an expanded version of the archdiocese's annual encounter for pre-teenspreparing for confirmation. An estimated 78,000 people filled the city's famedSan Siro soccer stadium; the archdiocese expects to confirm about 45,000 youngpeople this year.A boy named Davide asked the pope, "When you were ourage, what helped your friendship with Jesus grow?"First of all, the pope sa...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Oregon lost one of its best players to an injury just before the NCAA Tournament, had to survive two nail-biters to reach the Midwest Regional finals, and then faced a top-seeded Kansas team that had romped to the brink of the Final Four....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A U.S. counterterrorism airstrike earlier this month in Afghanistan killed an al-Qaida leader responsible for a deadly hotel attack in Islamabad in 2008 and the 2009 attack on a bus carrying the Sri Lankan cricket team, the Pentagon said Saturday....
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A man riding on a double decker bus on the Las Vegas Strip pulled a gun and started shooting, killing one person and wounding another before barricading himself inside in a standoff that lasted hours before he finally surrendered....
