It was billed as a “party for a cause,” in honor of Sharpton’s 60th birthday. But more than a birthday celebration, or a fundraiser for his nonprofit advocacy group National Action Network, the event seemed to mark the completion of Sharpton’s decades of transition from consummate outsider to improbable insider. |
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(CNN) -- The black flag of ISIS flies over government buildings. Police cars carry the group's insignia. The local football stadium is used for public executions. A town in Syria or Iraq? No. A city on the coast of the Mediterranean, in Libya. Fighters loyal to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.... |
By Richard McColl. BOGOTA, Colombia A FARC guerrilla spokesperson expressed surprise Tuesday at the government’s “impulsive” decision to suspend peace negotiations until a general who was kidnapped by the guerrilla group was released. “The negotiating table is committed to resolving the situations.... |
Nov 18, 2014 posted by Victoria McKenzie
After two days of speculation, the FARC confirmed Tuesday that it is in possession of an army general and two other military personnel captured in western Colombia.
“The three were taken because they are enemy military personnel, carrying out their duties in a war zone,” the communique says. |
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. BAMBOO Town MP Renward Wells has said he would not speak in the House of Assembly when it resumes on the controversial $650 million letter of intent with Stellar Waste Management insisting that “nothing else needs to be said”.... |
President Obama and Mr. Sharpton, the founder and president of the National Action Network, at the organization's national convention in April. Credit Pool photo by Julia Xanthos. Obscured in his ascent, however, has been his troubling financial past, which continues to shadow his present. Mr. |
Nov 18, 2014 posted by Victoria McKenzie
After two days of speculation, the FARC confirmed Tuesday that it is in possession of an army general and two other military personnel captured in western Colombia.
“The three were taken because they are enemy military personnel, carrying out their duties in a war zone,” the communique says. |
Blase Cupich will take religious and legal possession of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago in separate ceremonies Tuesday, pledging before a Cook County judge and later priests, bishops and parishioners that he will dutifully shepherd the nation's third-largest archdiocese.
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Our nation is entering a dangerous new phase in its relationship with Iran. Its nuclear program is proceeding, it continues to threaten to destroy Israel, it maintains its support for international terror and it is wrongfully imprisoning Americans, including a pastor, Saeed Abedini, merely because of his Christian faith. |
11/18/2014 PHILIPPINES - SYMPOSIUM Card Tagle: the Churches of Asia defined by martyrs without a name who bore witness to Jesus' Name At the AsiaNews International Symposium, the archbishop of Manila describes the strength of Asian Churches. Although they are a "small flock," they have given so many martyrs to the Church. |
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