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* Outspoken defender of poor visits home in Rio favela. * Challenges politicians to narrow gap between rich and poor. * Huge crowd as pope opens Catholic world youth jamboree (Recasts with huge crowd on beach for opening of jamboree) By Philip Pullella and Anthony Boadle. |
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RIO DE JANEIRO—Pope Francis on Thursday issued his first social manifesto, calling on the rich to wipe out vast inequalities, and later received an ecstatic welcome from up to a million people on Rio’s famed Copacabana beach. During a visit to a Rio slum on Thursday morning, the first Latin American.... |
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Thursday issued his first social manifesto, calling on the rich to wipe out vast inequalities, and later received an ecstatic welcome from up to a million people on Rio's famed Copacabana beach. |
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During a visit to a Rio slum on Thursday morning, the first Latin American pope called for a "culture of solidarity" to replace the "selfishness and individualism" in modern society. "No one can remain insensitive to the inequalities that persist in the world," he told residents of Manguinhos, a.... |
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The driver of the train that crashed in Spain, killing at least 80 people including one American, was detained and put under formal investigation Thursday after security video showed the train derailed after speeding around a tight curve. |
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Investigations into Spain’s worst rail disaster in more than 40 years – which has left at least 80 people dead and more than 160 injured, many of them seriously – are zeroing in on the driver after officials confirmed that excessive speed caused the train to career off the rails. |
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Investigations into Spain’s worst rail disaster in more than 40 years – which has left at least 80 people dead and more than 160 injured, many of them seriously – are zeroing in on the driver after officials confirmed that excessive speed caused the train to career off the rails. |
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SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA: Spanish police were set to grill Thursday the driver of a train that hurtled off the rails |
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. SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA: A train flew off the tracks as it reportedly tore at twice the speed limit around a bend in northwest Spain, killing at least 78 passengers and injuring more than 140 in the nation’s deadliest rail disaster since 1944. Carriages piled into each other and overturned in the.... |
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The driver of a train that hurtled off the rails at high speed in the Spanish northern city of Santiago de Compostela, killing at least 80 passengers in the nation’s worst such disaster in decades, was under investigation Thursday. |