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Seven Catholic bishops from Taiwan were in the Vatican from May 8 to May 14 as part of their first ad limina visit during the pontificate of Pope Francis, whom they met on the final day. It was a religious visit conveying a distinctly political message in tense times. |
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Health workers fighting Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) have run into an invisible, but powerful hurdle — a belief system that deems the disease to be a curse or the result of evil spirits. Some people are refusing medical care and turn instead to preachers and prayers to chase away the threat, they said. |
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Editor's note: The current controversy between the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris and the Senate has continued to generate mixed reactions among Nigerians. In an article sent to NAIJ.com , an Abuja based social commentator, Bernard Balogun (BenPino), writes about the composition of the.... |
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Monday marked seven years since former Family Radio President Harold Camping's much publicized prediction that May 21, 2011, would be the start of the Rapture failed to materialize. Although Jesus is recorded as saying that no one " knows the day nor the hour " of the end of the world, that has not.... |
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“This is what they handed to me,” whispered Gina Duran, angry tears dribbling down her cheek. The mourning mother held the chalky items up into the light. Her voice cracked. “They handed me my daughter in a freaking paper bag.” Alexa Duran, 18, was one of six people crushed to death on March 15 when.... |
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PERRY HALL, MD — Baltimore County police have identified the police officer killed in the line of duty Monday, and released more details about the death of Police Officer First Class Amy Caprio, 29. She was responding to a suspicious vehicle call on Linwen Way in Perry Hall when she was hit by a.... |
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Thirty-nine years ago on Friday, May 25, American Airlines Flight 191 crashed shortly after takeoff from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. All 258 passengers and 13 crew members on board were killed, as were two people on the ground. The 273 fatalities stand to this day as the deadliest aviation accident in the United States. |
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Thirty-nine years ago on Friday, May 25, American Airlines Flight 191 crashed shortly after takeoff from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. All 258 passengers and 13 crew members on board were killed, as were two people on the ground. The 273 fatalities stand to this day as the deadliest aviation accident in the United States. |
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The last Indianapolis 500 the group made it to was in 1987 – the family’s 10th in a row, a sun-splashed afternoon that went dark in an instant. Al Unser won his fourth Indy that day, but Karen never saw the finish. Neither did Lyle. He left the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in a helicopter, the city in a body bag. |
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Philip Roth at his home in Connecticut in 2005. Photograph: Douglas Healey/AP.
“I write fiction,” warned Philip Roth , “and I’m told it’s autobiography. I write autobiography and I’m told it’s fiction, so since I’m so dim and they’re so smart, let them decide. |
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The last Indianapolis 500 the group made it to was in 1987 – the family’s 10th in a row, a sun-splashed afternoon that went dark in an instant. Al Unser won his fourth Indy that day, but Karen never saw the finish. Neither did Lyle. He left the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in a helicopter, the city in a body bag. |
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