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On the day they were freed from slavery, the fishermen hugged, high-fived and sprinted through a stinging rain to line up so they wouldn't be left behind. But even as they learned they were going home, some wept at the thought of returning empty-handed and becoming one more mouth to feed....
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Opponents of President Nicolas Maduro who have taken to the streets day after day in Venezuela now find themselves rallying in support of an unexpected hero: the chief prosecutor who helped throw many of them into jail....
Hamburg, Germany, Jul 11, 2017 / 04:21 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- French President Emmanuel Macron has been under attack for identifying Africa’s development issue as a problem of overpopulation, ignoring the effects of France’s imperialism.In response a question on Africa’s needs by a reporter at the G20 Summit July 7, Macron said, “it’s by a more rigorous governance, a fight against corruption, a fight for good governance, a successful demographic transition when countries today have seven or eight children per woman.”The event took place in Hamburg July 7-8, and was the twelfth meeting of G20, the top government leaders with major influence in the world’s economy.When a reporter with roots in Ivory Coast, once a French colony, inquired into a possible plan for Africa similar to the Marshall Plan to reconstruct post-World War II Europe, Macron said, “The challenge of Africa is totally different and a lot more profound, it’s civilizat...
IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy of Agape Association of El SalvadorBy Rhina GuidosSONSONATE,El Salvador (CNS) -- His Boston Red Sox baseballhat is almost as big a part of him as his brown Franciscan habit. Anywhere FranciscanFather Flavian Mucci goes in El Salvador, he's known not only for his love ofbaseball, but more importantly, for the only thing he loves more than the game:the poor.Fifty years ago this July, Boston native Father Mucci arrivedin El Salvador with one piece of luggage, much in the same way his Italian grandparentsfirst arrived to the United States, the country where he was born. Though theU.S. is where he grew up and received his formation in the Order of FriarsMinors for the Province of the Immaculate Conception in New York, "my heart, mymind, it's all here," said Father Mucci, referring to El Salvador, the countryto which he has devoted five decades of his life.In those five decades, he's built what amounts to an empireof social and public services called the Agape A...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Police used cadaver dogs, a backhoe and other construction equipment Tuesday to help search a sprawling farm for four missing men believed to be victims of foul play. A prosecutor, meanwhile, described a man who was held on an unrelated gun charge, but has since been released on bail, as a person of interest in the investigation....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Timber and brush parched from a years-long dry spell and thick grass that grew after drought-busting winter downpours are making for early and unpredictable wildfire behavior that California officials haven't seen for years, if at all....
QALQILIYA, West Bank (AP) -- Last year, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government quietly passed one of its most significant concessions to the Palestinians: a plan to alter the West Bank map and turn over a small chunk of Israeli-controlled territory....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Donald Trump Jr. has long been his father's id, the brawler who has helped fuel the president's pugilistic instincts and stood firm as one of his fiercest defenders. Now the president's eldest son is at the center of the firestorm over Russian connections swirling around his father's administration and trying to fight off charges that he was open to colluding with Moscow to defeat Hillary Clinton....
ITTA BENA, Miss. (AP) -- Investigators picked through debris across a fire-blackened soybean field Tuesday to try to determine why a U.S. military plane slammed into the ground, killing all 16 people aboard in the deadliest Marine crash anywhere in the world in more than a decade....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on the ongoing investigations into possible collusion between Trump campaign associates and Russia (all times local):...
