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IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul JeffreyBy Paul JeffreyWAU,South Sudan (CNS) -- Rita Williams slept under a tree beside St. Mary CatholicCathedral, her three hungry children beside her. Around them, as many as 16,000other displaced people filled the cathedral compound, hoping the church wouldkeep them safe as their country spirals into greater violence."I'vebeen here two weeks, since the soldiers chased us out of our house and burnedit," she said April 26. "We have nothing, not even salt. Our clothesare dirty, and some days all we have to eat or drink is water. We're waiting. Idon't know for what, but we're afraid to go back home."Whencivil war ripped apart South Sudan's fragile democracy in 2013, residents ofthis city in the country's northwest watched the violence from afar, seeminglyunconcerned that the politically manipulated ethnic violence would spread here.And then it did, and the victims ran for the city's churches. "Itwasn't safe anywhere, but people said that if they were going to b...
BOSTON (AP) -- Boston Red Sox President Sam Kennedy is apologizing for fans at Fenway Park taunting Baltimore Orioles center fielder Adam Jones with racial slurs....
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Over the past seven years, austerity has left visible scars in Greece's capital....
MOSCOW (AP) -- Anzor was lying on a dirty floor as a man in army boots jumped on his back. His agony worsened when his captors started torturing him with electric shocks....
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Innkeepers, restaurateurs and landscapers around the U.S. say they are struggling to find seasonal help and turning down business in some cases because the government tightened up on visas for temporary foreign workers....
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The pool party was in full swing when a lone man reclining in a lounge chair with a blank expression pulled a gun from his waistband and began shooting....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on a House hearing on customer service at U.S. airlines (all times local):...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- A white former South Carolina police officer planned to plead guilty Tuesday to violating the civil rights of an unarmed black motorist he shot and killed as the man ran from a 2015 traffic stop, according to a copy of the plea agreement obtained by The Associated Press....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday that the nation "needs a good 'shutdown' in September" to fix a "mess" in the Senate, issuing contradictory messages ahead of key votes on a spending plan to keep the federal government running....
(Vatican Radio) The chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel is due to meet Russia's President Vladimir Putin in Russia for the first time since 2015. Tuesday's gathering comes at a time of troubled bilateral relations over the war in Syria and Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula.Listen to Stefan Bos' report: The leaders meet at Putin's summer residence in Sochi to see if they can overcome the biggest tensions between them since the end of the Cold War.However that is difficult as German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Putin remain divided over Russia's annexation of Crimea in Ukraine in 2014. Germany was a driving force behind the European Unionsanctions imposed in response.Merkel wants Russia to seek an end to the conflict in Ukraine by using its influence on pro-Russian separatists. The West has accused Russia of supporting the rebels with weapons and troops in the fighting that killed some 10,000 people, charges Russi...