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MILAN (AP) -- A casket containing the body of the Italian victim of the truck attack on a Christmas market in Berlin has arrived in Rome....
PARIS (AP) -- Europe's open borders symbolize liberty and forward thinking - but they increasingly look like the continent's Achilles' heel....
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Republicans are poised to use their newly attained capitol dominance to make Missouri the 27th right-to-work state prohibiting mandatory union fees. That is unless Kentucky's recently crowned GOP majorities can beat them to it....
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) -- The Nativity scene and Christmas tree are in place on the corner of the street. Some of the children proudly wear red Santa Claus hats or show off new toys, mostly plastic guns for small boys. Windows and balconies are festooned with colorful balloons....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian state TV says an explosion rocked eastern Aleppo as some residents were returning to their homes after the government assumed full control of the city earlier this week....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congressional Republicans are planning a massive overhaul of the nation's tax system next year, a heavy political lift that could ultimately affect families at every income level and businesses of every size....
(Vatican Radio) Five restorers from the Vatican Museums are working to salvage works of art in churches and towns damaged in recent earthquakes in central Italy: that, according to Barbara Jatta, the Museums’ new director who takes up her post on January 1. At a press conference Friday, Jatta said most are working in Umbria, between Norcia and Spoleto. The Vatican Museums’ first woman director said some 20 of the institution’s 65 experts have offered to collaborate with local municipal arts departments to secure fresco cycles and important works buried under the rubble. The Vatican newspaper, Osservatore Romano, reports that many of the works will be brought to the Museums’ restoration labs to be cleaned and repaired.Jatta added that the Museums are also supporting the quake zones’ economies by purchasing local food products for their catering services.Though access to the damaged areas is challenging amid continuous tremo...
(Vatican Radio) Five restorers from the Vatican Museums are working to salvage works of art in churches and towns damaged in recent earthquakes in central Italy: that, according to Barbara Jatta, the Museums’ new director who takes up her post on January 1. At a press conference Friday, Jatta said most are working in Umbria, between Norcia and Spoleto.
The Vatican Museums’ first woman director said some 20 of the institution’s 65 experts have offered to collaborate with local municipal arts departments to secure fresco cycles and important works buried under the rubble. The Vatican newspaper, Osservatore Romano, reports that many of the works will be brought to the Museums’ restoration labs to be cleaned and repaired.
Jatta added that the Museums are also supporting the quake zones’ economies by purchasing local food products for their catering services.
Though access to the damaged areas is challenging amid continuous tremors, the Vatican restorers have already inspected 25 churches and 6 fresco cycles. 25 important but injured works of art have been recovered.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) -- Tens of thousands of children from around the world plan to call the North American Aerospace Defense Command to ask where Santa is, and starting Saturday they will get a cheery answer about the mythical route from a real person, not a recording....
ERIGAVO, Somalia (AP) -- In a tradition dating to Biblical times, men rise at dawn in the rugged Cal Madow mountains of Somaliland in the Horn of Africa to scale rocky outcrops in search of the prized sap of wild frankincense trees....
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- A South Korean special prosecutor on Saturday summoned a jailed friend of impeached President Park Geun-hye, who allegedly exploited her connections with Park to extort money and favors from the country's largest companies and manipulate government affairs....
