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Pope Francis supports crackdown on US nuns
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican said Monday that Pope Francis supports the Holy See’s crackdown on the largest umbrella group of U.S. nuns, dimming hopes that a Jesuit pope whose emphasis on the poor mi...
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Brotherhood members face torture charge in Egypt
CAIRO — Two Muslim Brotherhood officials have been sent to trial on charges of kidnapping and torturing three men during protests in November following Islamist President Mohammed Morsi’s decrees, ...
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Hezbollah-backed Lebanese Shiites fight in Syria
AL QASR, Lebanon — Masked men in camouflage toting Kalashnikov rifles fan out through a dusty olive grove, part of a group of Hezbollah-backed fighters from Lebanon who are patrolling both sides of...
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Tensions up in Venezuela after polls close
CARACAS, Venezuela — Voters chose Sunday between the hand-picked successor who campaigned to carry on Hugo Chavez’s self-styled socialist revolution and an emboldened second-time challenger who war...
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Associated Press Somali soldiers look at the wreckage of the car that detonated the bomb near the entrance of Mogadishu's court complex in Somalia on Sunday. Militants launched a serious and sustained assault on Mogadishu's main court complex Sunday, detonating at least two blasts, taking an unknown number of hostages and exchanging extended volleys of gunfire with government security forces, witnesses said.
16 killed in attack on Somali Court
MOGADISHU, Somalia — A barrage of bullets and two car bomb blasts rattled Mogadishu on Sunday when nine al-Shabab Islamic extremists stormed Somalia’s main court complex, officials said, in a two-h...
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Lion Air jet crashes into sea in Indonesia
BALI, Indonesia — All 108 passengers and crew survived after a new Lion Air jet crashed into the ocean and snapped into two while attempting to land Saturday on the Indonesian resort island of Bali...
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Russia bans 18 Americans after similar US decision
MOSCOW — Russia on Saturday banned 18 Americans from entering the country in response to Washington imposing sanctions on 18 Russians for alleged human rights violations. The list released by th...
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Associated Press In this combo picture are four of the eight cardinals named by Pope Francis to help advise him running the church, from left, Cardinal Giuseppe Bertello, Cardinal George Pell, Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga and Cardinal Oswald Gracias. Pope Francis on Saturday named the cardinals to a panel that will help advise him running the church and reforming the Vatican bureaucracy, or Curia. Seven non-Vatican officials were drawn from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America to give it geographical breadth.
Pope taps cardinals for advice on governing
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis named eight cardinals from around the globe Saturday to advise him on running the Catholic Church and reforming the Vatican bureaucracy, marking his first month as pope ...
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Associated Press US Secretary of State John Kerry conducts a press conference answering questions from US and Chinese media on Saturday in Beijing. Kerry arrived in Beijing to seek Chinese help in persuading North Korea to halt its nuclear and missile testing program.
Goal of nuclear-free North Korea tests national ties
BEIJING — Bound by threats from North Korea, the U.S. and China agreed Saturday to rid the bellicose nation of nuclear weapons in a test of whether the world powers can shelve years of rivalry and ...
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Syrian troops widen offensive along border
AL-QASR, LEBANON — Syrian soldiers backed by warplanes battled rebels for control of strategic hilltop villages near the Lebanese border on Friday, as government troops step up counterattacks again...
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