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STOCKHOLM (AP) -- The world is nowhere near on track to achieve the ambitious temperature goals adopted in the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change, the U.N. said Thursday in a sobering report that warned of a human tragedy unless governments stepped up efforts to fight global warming....
CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) -- Hundreds of clergy of various faiths joined protests Thursday against the Dakota Access oil pipeline in southern North Dakota, singing hymns, marching and ceremonially burning a copy of a 600-year-old document....
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- An Iowa man charged Thursday with fatally shooting two police officers in ambush-style attacks was under intense financial pressure and had been ordered to move out of his mother's basement just hours before the slayings....
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) -- As Iraqi forces pushed Islamic State militants out of Mosul's eastern neighborhoods this week, hundreds of civilians faced a dilemma: Stay in an area still beset by heavy fighting and surrounded by government troops that many still distrust, or evacuate for the uncertainty of a displacement camp....
LONDON (AP) -- Britain's plans to leave the European Union hit a large speed bump Thursday, as the High Court ruled that the government can't start exit negotiations without a vote in Parliament....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump regularly warns his crowds to closely watch polling places to prevent Democrats from stealing the election. But his campaign has failed to enlist many to serve as official poll watchers in major population centers, according to spot checks by The Associated Press....
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- Donald Trump warned on Thursday that a cloud of investigation would follow Hillary Clinton into the White House, evoking the bitter impeachment battle of the 1990s in a closing campaign argument meant to bring wayward Republicans home. Clinton and her allies, led by President Barack Obama, told voters to get serious about the dangers of Trump....
Pope Francis returned to Rome Tuesday evening after a 2-day visit to Malmo and Lund in southern Sweden, where he joined the Lutheran World Federation in kicking off a yearlong celebration of 500 years of the Protestant Reformation sparked by Martin Luther that brought about a major split in the Catholic Church. The Pope had two important events on Monday, Oct. 31. His first was a common ecumenical prayer service in the evening with the Lutheran World Federation at Lund Cathedral, where the group was founded in 1947. From there the Pope went to the indoor stadium of Malmo for an ecumenical event with several Christian Churches. Besides the signing of a Declaration of Intent, entitled “Together in Hope” by Caritas Internationalis and the Lutheran World Federation World Service, pledging to recommit themselves to working together in responding to the world’s humanitarian needs, the Malmo event also fea...
(Vatican Radio) The Press Office of the Holy See was the scene on Thursday morning for a conference featuring the President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization, Archbishop Rino Fisichella, who presented the final major celebrations associated with the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy at the Vatican: the Jubilee for Prisoners on November 5th and 6th; and the Jubilee for the Socially Excluded from November 11th to 13th.Each particular Jubilee will culminate with Mass in St. Peter’s Square.The Jubilee for Prisoners will involve a contingent of persons currently serving penal sentences in Spain, along with persons of several different nationalities currently incarcerated in Italy, as well as hundreds of people either released on parole or who have served their sentences and are working to rejoin society. Over 1 thousand people either currently serving time or who have served time in prison are expected to take part in the Jubilee i...
The Maronite bishops have welcomed the election of General Aoun as 13th president of Lebanese Republic at a meeting held on Wednesday in Bkerkè.Michel Aoun 81, the former Lebanese army chief, has been elected president of Lebanon, ending more than two years of deadlock surrounding the vacancy.Now the goal, added the prelates, is the "quick" formation of an "efficient government" that is able to face and solve the old problems - economic crisis, institutional stalemate, domestic terrorism, border wars and reception of refugees - investing the Land of the Cedars.At their monthly assembly, which was held on Wednesday at the headquarters of the Maronite Patriarchate in Bkerké under the chairmanship of Cardinal Beshara Rai, the bishops stressed the joint efforts of all parties in Aoun’s election.The prelates appreciated the reference in the inaugural speech of the new head of state, to the need for political, economic, administrative and soc...
