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Flanked by Vatican bodyguards in flak jackets and machine-gun-toting UN peacekeepers, Pope Francis plunged Sunday into conflict-wracked Central African Republic and urged the country’s Christian and Muslim factions to lay down their weapons and instead arm themselves with peace and forgiveness. |
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Federal Labor says Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is sending mixed messages on the government's climate change policy. Mr Turnbull is in Paris for international climate talks and is reportedly leaving the door open to increasing Australia's carbon emissions reduction target if there is global agreement, The Australian reports. |
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Schoolgirls dressed in the yellow and white of the Holy See flag and women wearing traditional African fabric dresses emblazoned with the pope's face joined government and church authorities to welcome Francis at Bangui airport amid tight security. Cheering crowds lined his motorcade route - about three miles of it in his open-sided popemobile. |
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Federal Labor says Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is sending mixed messages on the government's climate change policy. Mr Turnbull is in Paris for international climate talks and is reportedly leaving the door open to increasing Australia's carbon emissions reduction target if there is global agreement, The Australian reports. |
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Flanked by Vatican bodyguards in flak jackets and machine-gun-toting UN peacekeepers, Pope Francis plunged Sunday into conflict-wracked Central African Republic and urged the country's Christian and Muslim factions to lay down their weapons and instead arm themselves with peace and forgiveness. |
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Federal Labor says Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is sending mixed messages on the government's climate change policy. Mr Turnbull is in Paris for international climate talks and is reportedly leaving the door open to increasing Australia's carbon emissions reduction target if there is global agreement, The Australian reports. |
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Police detained 208 people after a small group of protesters at the central Place de la Republique square pelted officers with bottles as well as candles that had been left in tribute to the victims of the November 13 Paris attacks. "These disruptive elements have nothing to do with defenders of the.... |
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Duty Editor: Peter Stebbings. Tel: +1 202 414 0543. -- TOP STORIES -- + Hundreds of thousands rally on eve of climate summit. + Pope urges peace in war-torn Central Africa. + US shooter apparently targeted clinic that does abortions. + Burkina Faso votes after year of turmoil. + Britain wins Davis Cup for first time in 79 years. |
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BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Flanked by Vatican bodyguards in flak jackets and machine-gun-toting U.N. peacekeepers, Pope Francis plunged Sunday into conflict-wracked Central African Republic and urged the country's Christian and Muslim factions to lay down their weapons and instead arm themselves with peace and forgiveness. |
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Robert Lewis Dear was reclusive, and he seldom spoke to neighbors in a desolate stretch of land in rural Colorado where he lived. Now, it's his words that are drawing the most attention as police try to discern his motivations for a shooting attack they say he carried.... |
