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By Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Too often, national and international policies leavemigrant children at the mercy of traffickers and sexual predators and are signsof a widespread failure to protect the innocent, a Vatican official said.Inaddition, policies that involve criminalizing and detaining child migrants "arean insult to human dignity" and are "the dramatic evidence ofexisting inequalities and failing systems," said Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic,Vatican observer to U.N. agencies in Geneva."The graveerror of the detention model is that it considers the children as sole,isolated subjects responsible for the situations in which they find themselvesand over which they have little, if any, control," the archbishop said. "Thismodel wrongly absolves the international community at large fromresponsibilities that it regularly fails to fulfill."Archbishop Jurkovic spoke about the plight of child migrants during a U.N. Human Rights Councilpanel discussion June 9on "Unaccompanie...
NEW YORK (AP) -- The global obesity problem now affects 1 in 10 people in the world, it is rising in countries rich and poor, and in many countries it is increasing faster in children than adults, according to a new study....
ISTANBUL (AP) -- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 shook western Turkey and the Greek island of Lesbos on Monday, injuring at least 10 people and damaging buildings, authorities said....
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- A detective testifying at a hearing for 18 Penn State fraternity brothers accused in the death of a 19-year-old pledge said Monday the student looked like a corpse in surveillance video from the frat house....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lawyers for Hawaii tell the Supreme Court that letting the Trump administration enforce a ban on travel from six mostly Muslim countries would "thrust the country back into the chaos and confusion" that resulted when the policy was first announced in January....
SEATTLE (AP) -- Ken Shefveland's body was swollen with cancer, treatment after treatment failing until doctors gambled on a radical approach: They removed some of his immune cells, engineered them into cancer assassins and unleashed them into his bloodstream....
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- Bill Cosby's lawyers put on a case consisting of just one witness and six minutes of testimony Monday, wrapping up the defense side in the sexual assault trial without the comedian himself taking the stand....
MOSCOW (AP) -- Thousands of people took part in anti-corruption protests across Russia on Monday in a new show of defiance by an opposition that the Kremlin had once written off as ineffectual and marginalized....
The attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia say they will sue Donald Trump on Monday, alleging he has violated the Constitution by taking payments from foreign governments as president....
