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LONDON (AP) -- The official cause may not be known for months. The death toll is unclear - and rising. No one has said exactly where the fire started. But experts suspect recent renovations at the Grenfell Tower, including newly installed external cladding, played a tragic role in spreading the fire so quickly....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered more money and a bigger role for private companies in designing apprenticeship programs meant to fill some of the 6 million open jobs in the U.S....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A clear majority of Americans believe President Donald Trump has tried to interfere with the investigation into whether Russia meddled in the 2016 election and possible Trump campaign collusion, a new poll released Thursday shows. Just one in five support his decision to oust James Comey from the FBI....
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- Jurors in Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial said Thursday they are deadlocked on charges he drugged and molested a woman in 2004, but a judge ordered them to keep trying to reach a unanimous decision in a case that has already helped obliterate the TV star's career and nice-guy reputation....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In critical condition and undergoing repeated surgery, GOP House Whip Steve Scalise faces a "much more difficult" struggle to recover from his gunshot wound than first thought, President Donald Trump said Thursday. The House lurched back to business in a somber mood as law enforcement tracked the path the shooter traveled to his ball field carnage....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It didn't take long for the capital's post-shooting talk of unity to begin fraying....
WYOMING, Ohio (AP) -- The Latest on an American college student freed this week by North Korea (all times local):...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has written the preface for a new book on corruption by Cardinal Peter Turkson, former president of the Vatican’s Justice and Peace Council and current head of the office for Integral Human Development.The volume, which was published on Thursday, explores the origins and devastating consequences of corruption, which the Pope describes as a "curse" and a “cancer” that can consume our lives.Listen to Philippa Hitchen's report: In his preface, the Pope describes corruption as the breakdown of relationships that every human being has with God, with our neighbours and with the natural world around us.Origin of all exploitationHe describes it as the worst scourge of societies because it is the lifeblood of the mafia and other criminal organisations. Corruption, he says, is the origin of all exploitation and trafficking of people, drugs and weapons. It is at the heart of all injustice, lack of development, unemployment and soci...
Caritas Pakistan in Karachi has distributed food aid to Muslim villagers in a rural mountainous area to help them cope with the effects of prolonged drought and ease their problems during the holy month of Ramadan.  Caritas helped 90 families from seven villages bordering Karachi June 11 with each family receiving a bag containing food items for their daily needs. "People in this area are extremely poor. No rains in the territory for the past four years have affected them a lot, their lands are barren, and they cannot cultivate any crops," said Mansha Noor, executive secretary of Caritas Pakistan Karachi.  Villagers had contacted Caritas during the first week of Ramadan and "we immediately started working to raise funds to support them," he said.  Each bag costs about Rs. 2,000 (US$20).  "This is the first time we are helping Muslims with rations during their holy Month. Earlier we only provided aid during floods and other natural ...
Muslim religious and civil leaders in the southern Philippine city of Marawi appealed on Thursday to the government of President Rodrigo Duterte to resolve in a "civilized manner" the conflict that has besieged the city for four weeks now. The fighting between security forces and terrorists has displaced most of the more than 200,000 ‎residents of Marawi, the bastion of ‎Islamic ‎faith in the south of the predominantly Roman Catholic ‎nation.‎  According to the army 290 people have been killed in the more than three weeks of fighting for control ‎of the city, including 206 militants, 58 soldiers and 26 civilians. ‎ A total of 132 public and ‎private schools, 22,000 students, and 2,200 teaching staff in Marawi have been affected by the fighting that broke out on May 23.‎"The socio-economic and religious activities of our people have been tremendously affected," said Abdul Hamidullah Atar, the sultan of Marawi, in a l...
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