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NEW YORK (AP) -- The Radio City Rockettes will be dancing at President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration next month, but not everyone is kicking up their heels at the booking....
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- The nation's largest freight railroad has agreed to more thorough inspections and maintenance improvements after a fiery oil train derailment in Oregon and the discovery of more than 800 potential safety violations across its sprawling network....
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- A Little Rock man who fired his gun into a car, striking and killing a 3-year-old boy, did so because he thought the driver of that vehicle was following him too closely, police said in an affidavit released Friday following the suspect's arrest....
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Frustrated after seeing another candidate secure the presidency without winning the national popular vote, mostly Democratic lawmakers in several capitols want their states to join a 10-year-old movement to work around the Electoral College....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Hundreds of people returned to eastern Aleppo neighborhoods on Friday to check on their homes after the last opposition fighters left the city, picking through debris and wreckage for personal belongings blasted by years of fighting....
MILAN (AP) -- A routine request for ID papers outside a deserted train station in Milan at 3 a.m. Friday led to a police shootout that killed the Tunisian fugitive wanted in the deadly Christmas market attack in Berlin....
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- In a striking rupture with past practice, the United States allowed the U.N. Security Council on Friday to condemn Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem as a "flagrant violation" of international law. In doing so, the outgoing Obama administration brushed aside Donald Trump's demands that the U.S. exercise its veto and provided a climax to years of icy relations with Israel's leadership....
(Vatican Radio) Thanks to Pope Francis over 2 million people affected by the humanitarian crisis in eastern Ukraine will receive a first installment of much needed aid in time for Christmas.A communiqué released by the Papal charitable office ‘Cor Unum’ reveals that about 6 million euros, out of the 12 million that have been collected so far, will reach vulnerable people in the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk, Zaporozhe, Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk.The press release points out that aid will be distributed regardless of religion or ethnic group.The money was collected by Catholic churches across Europe in response to a personal appeal by the Pope for a collection on April 24, 2016, in aid of Ukrainians affected by the conflict in the east of the nation. He then set up a committee presided over ‘in loco’ by the Auxiliary Bishop of Kharkiv- Zaporozhe, Jan Sobilo, and coordinated by the Apostolic Nuncio in Ukraine, Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti, ...
(Vatican Radio) The Catholic lay community Sant’Egidio is gearing up for its traditional Christmas lunch for the poor, marginalized and homeless. Sant’Egidio first offered the lunch to a couple dozen elderly friends, neighbors and homeless in the Rome Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere in 1982. Since then, the event has extended to communities in more than 700 cities across the globe and this year, organizers expect some 200,000 people, including prisoners and refugees to attend.Sant’Egidio has re-baptised the event “the most beautiful lunch of the year” because “there is a place at the table for everyone.”In Africa, Asia, and Latin America, street children and those who frequent the community’s Peace Schools are also among the honored guests.In Italy, where the now global community first took root, hundreds of cities are participating in the event, offering Christmas lunches over three days to more than 40,000 p...
There are some changes in the radio frequencies of Vatican Radio’s English Service for Asia, effective from Saturday, December 24, 2016. The timings however remain unchanged. Here are the full timings and frequencies, including in SW, FM and DRM:- 01.38 am UTC (GMT): 7410 kHz (41 meterband); 9515 kHz (31 meterband), (103.8 mHz FM Rome area only)- 02.58 am UTC (GMT): 15470 kHz (19 meterband)- 09.00 am UTC (GMT): 103.8 mHz FM Rome area only- 3.28 pm UTC (GMT): 11695 kHz (25 meterband); 9510 kHz (31meterband); 11940 kHz (25 meterband) in DRM, (103.8 mHz FM Rome area only)
