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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis' five-day visit to South Korea will be the first time in a quarter-century that a pope has been on the divided Korean peninsula. Francis plans to bring a message of peace and reconciliations to Koreans on both sides of the 38th parallel, while encouraging Catholics in the region to spread their faith. |
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A Russian convoy of trucks carrying tonnes of humanitarian aid left on Tuesday for eastern Ukraine, where government forces are closing in on pro-Russian rebels, but Kiev said it would not allow the vehicles to cross onto its territory. |
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ILE À VACHE, Haiti, Monday August 11, 2014, IPS - Calm waters lap the shore beneath stately coconut palms. Mango trees display their bounty alongside mangrove forests. Goats graze peacefully on hillsides. Ile à Vache is "the Caribbean's last treasure island," says Haiti's Ministry of Tourism. Just 10. |
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Fearing a genocide of Christians, the Vatican has given its approval to U.S. military air strikes in Iraq -- a rare exception to its policy of peaceful conflict resolution. The Holy See's ambassador to the United Nations, Silvano Tomasi, this weekend supported U.S. |
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Religious watchers say support for air strikes does not mean change in Vatican policy on war spearheaded by bellicose Francis. |
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SYDNEY - The United States stressed Tuesday it welcomes the rise of China and wants to work constructively with Beijing as it signed a deal to deploy 2,500 Marines to Australia as part of its “rebalance” to Asia. China bristled when the agreement to deploy Marines to the northern city of Darwin was first announced by President Barack Obama in 2011. |
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MADRID : An elderly Spanish priest became the first European to die from a fast-spreading Ebola outbreak on Tuesday, succumbing to the virus in a Madrid hospital five days after being evacuated from Liberia. The 75-year-old Roman Catholic priest, Miguel Pajares, had been treated in Spain with an.... |
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SYDNEY: The United States stressed on Tuesday it welcomes the rise of China and wants to work constructively with Beijing as it signed a deal to deplo |
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Terror group ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham) are recruiting children as young as nine years old to join their organization and then condition their very young minds to kill all Christians as well as other infidels. |
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BEIRUT - The Vatican Tuesday urged Muslims to openly condemn brutal acts like killing minority Yezidis by the jihadist Islamic State (IS), which has control over large swathes of land in Iraq and ... |
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A World Health Organization panel advised Tuesday that it was ethical to use experimental, non-approved drugs to combat the Ebola virus in West Africa, and that five such treatments were being considered for “compassionate use.” |
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