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NEW YORK (AP) -- Even Mr. Met is frustrated with the team's disappointing start....
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The man responsible for a car-and-knife attack at Ohio State University last year left behind a torn-up note in which he urged his family to stop being "moderate" Muslims and said he was upset by fellow Muslims being oppressed in Myanmar, The Associated Press has learned....
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghans mourned the loss of family members, friends and colleagues on Thursday, a day after a massive truck bomb exploded in the capital, killing at least 90 people and wounding more than 450 in one of the worst extremist attacks since the drawdown of foreign forces from the country in 2014....
PARIS (AP) -- Cyberspace faces an approaching risk of "permanent war" between states and criminal or extremist organizations because of increasingly destructive hacking attacks, the head of the French government's cybersecurity agency warned Thursday....
ST.PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) -- President Vladimir Putin insisted Thursday that the Russian state has never engaged in hacking and said Moscow will wait out the current political storm in the U.S. to forge constructive relations with President Donald Trump, whom he praised as a straightforward person with a "fresh set of eyes."...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump may abandon U.S. pledges to reduce carbon emissions that contribute to global warming, but that step seems unlikely to stall the push to adopt cleaner forms of energy....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Stepping back from a campaign promise, President Donald Trump on Thursday decided not to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, at least for the next six months. The White House described Trump's waiver as a move to improve chances for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal, but the relocation also risked igniting tensions across the Middle East....
(Vatican Radio) His Beatitude, Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halyc, Ukraine, and head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, has died following a serious illness. He was 84.Biography of LUBOMYR Cardinal HUSARH.B. Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, of the Ukrainian Studite Monks, Major Archbishop emeritus of Kyiv-Halyc, Ukraine, was born on 26 February 1933 in Lviv. Due to the war, his family fled to Austria and then to the USA. He was ordained for the Eparchy of Stamford for Ukrainians, USA, on 30 March 1958.He taught in the seminary and was parish priest in Kehonkson, New York. After earning a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical Urbanian University, Rome, he joined the Studite Monks and was superior of the Studion in Grottaferrata, Italy. On 2 April 1977 he was ordained a Bishop by Cardinal Josyf Slipyj and on 23 July 1978 was named Archimandrite of Studite Monks residing outside Ukraine.In 1994 he organized a new Studite monastery in Ternopil, Ukraine. On 22 Febru...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis received in audience on Thursday members of the European Federation of Catholic Family Associations or (FAFCE).The federation was meeting the Pope on the occasion of its 20th Anniversary.FAFCE represents Catholic family associations from 14 European countries and has participatory status with the Council of Europe.Listen to Lydia O’Kane’s interview with the President of the European Federation of Catholic Family Associations, Antoine Renard who spoke earlier this week about this important anniversary and the challenges facing the family today. In his prepared words to those gathered for this anniversary, Pope Francis said that the family was Europe’s most precious treasure.He continued by saying that families were not “museum pieces, but through them, the gift is made concrete in mutual commitment and generous openness to children, but also in service to society.” Families, the Pope added, “are thus a kind of le...
(Vatican Radio) The life of St Paul, characterised by preaching, persecutions and prayer, can be a model for all Christians today. That was the theme of Pope Francis’ homily at his Santa Marta Mass on Thursday morning.Philippa Hitchen reports: Reflecting on the first reading from the Acts of the Apostles, Pope Francis described St Paul as the ultimate action man. It’s hard to imagine him, relaxing under a beach umbrella, he said, because he was always on the go and rarely to be found sat in front of a desk.Passion for preachingInstead, the Pope said, St Paul was driven by a passion for preaching and was always on the move, announcing Jesus Christ to the world.This passion for preaching led to a second characteristic of the apostle’s life which was the persecutions he suffered at the hands of the religious leaders of his day. But the Pope noted how Paul was inspired by the Spirit and was able to sow divisions between the Sadducees, who didn’t believe in the ...
