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CHICAGO (AP) -- It could take months for investigators to determine what preceded the deaths of at least nine people found with dozens of ailing individuals in a tractor-trailer discovered outside a Walmart in San Antonio, Texas, in what authorities are calling an immigrant-smuggling attempt gone wrong....
SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- At least nine people died after being crammed into a sweltering tractor-trailer found parked outside a Walmart in the midsummer Texas heat, victims of what authorities said on Sunday was an immigrant-smuggling attempt gone wrong....
(Vatican Radio) The European Union has condemned moves by the U.S. Congress to step up sanctions on Russia without consulting the EU and other allies amid concerns it could impact energy supplies and have other negative economic consequences for Europe. Its statement came after Democrats and Republicans in Congress reached a deal that could see new legislation pass to tighten sanctions against Russia's over its alleged meddling in the recent U.S. presidential elections. Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: The European Commission, the EU's executive, warned the U.S. Congress that its proposed punitive measures against Russia would have what it called "wide and indiscriminate" "unintended consequences". Brussels is especially concerned about the impact new US sanctions will have on the block's efforts to diversify energy sources. Germany has already said it could retaliate if the United States moves to sanction firms involved wit...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- It's victory for "Dunkirk" and "Girls Trip" at the box office this weekend. Both original and well-reviewed films smashed expectations and enticed diverse audiences to the theaters, even though cumulatively summer remains down from last year....
KUWAIT CITY (AP) -- Turkey's president waded into the diplomatic crisis gripping Qatar and four other Arab nations on Sunday, traveling to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait as part of a three-country Gulf tour aimed at helping break the impasse....
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) -- Three people, including an Israeli man, were wounded by gunfire Sunday in a residential building in the heavily fortified Israeli embassy compound in Jordan's capital, the kingdom's Public Security Directorate said....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House indicated Sunday President Donald Trump would sign a sweeping Russia sanctions measure, which the House could take up this week, that requires him to get Congress' permission before lifting or easing the economic penalties against Moscow....
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's security Cabinet met Sunday to review a decision to install metal detectors at a contested Jerusalem holy site, following a week of escalating tensions with the Muslim world, mass prayer protests and Israeli-Palestinian violence....
SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- At least 10 people died after being crammed into the back of a sweltering tractor-trailer found parked outside a Walmart in the midsummer Texas heat, authorities said Sunday in what they described as an immigrant-smuggling attempt gone wrong....
Bishop Augustine Shao of Zanzibar, says he wants issues relating to interreligious dialogue and solidarity to be empahsised in the next Plenary Assembly of the regional grouping of bishops’ conferences of eastern Africa, AMECEA.In an interview with AMECEA News Online, the bishop said coming from a diocese where Islam is the main religion, he feels disappointed that the issue of interreligious dialogue has not been given the emphasis it deserves, adding that, the issue of solidarity with the dioceses and countries in the region where Catholic Christians are in a minority also needs to be looked at.The bishop proposed that the Commission on Interreligious Dialogue and Solidarity be one of the key issues to be considered for deliberations during the 19th Plenary Assembly of AMECEA to be held in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa in July 2018.“Previously there was strong Pastoral care to the Nomadic Communities in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, this ensured that people who mo...