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NICE, France (AP) -- There is mounting evidence that Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, the Tunisian-born truck driver responsible for the deadly carnage in Nice last week, had recently absorbed extremist ideas and had become radicalized, French authorities said Sunday....
ISTANBUL (AP) -- Following a failed coup against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the government moved swiftly Sunday to shore up his power and remove those perceived as an enemy, saying it has detained 6,000 people....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Confronting another killing of police officers, President Barack Obama on Sunday urged Americans to tamp down inflammatory words and actions as a violent summer collides with the nation's heated presidential campaign....
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- The Latest on the shooting of law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge (all times local):...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Three Baton Rouge law enforcement officers investigating a report of a man with an assault rifle were killed Sunday, less than two weeks after a black man was fatally shot by police here in a confrontation that sparked nightly protests that reverberated nationwide....
(Vatican Radio) Thousands of hungry and needy Venezuelans crossed the border into Colombia, for a second time this month, to buy the bare necessities. James Blears reports about another twelve hour window of opportunity.Listen: Heavily armed with umbrellas, to combat torrential rain, thousands of Venezuelans went shopping in Colombia for food, medicines and even toilet rolls, which can`t be found in their own supermarkets. Some took eight hours to be bused to the San Antonio Del Táchira crossing, leading to Cucuta in Colombia.Smuggling of subsidised foods and gasoline into Colombia, led to armed gangs- one of which attacked and wounded three Venezuelan soldiers last August and since then, a sealed Border has created this bottleneck.Venezuela`s President Nicolas Maduro blames international enemies combining with home grown subversives, sabotaging the economy. The Opposition insists it`s decades of sole dependence on the declining ...
(Vatican Radio) Thousands of hungry and needy Venezuelans crossed the border into Colombia, for a second time this month, to buy the bare necessities. James Blears reports about another twelve hour window of opportunity.
Listen:
Heavily armed with umbrellas, to combat torrential rain, thousands of Venezuelans went shopping in Colombia for food, medicines and even toilet rolls, which can`t be found in their own supermarkets. Some took eight hours to be bused to the San Antonio Del Táchira crossing, leading to Cucuta in Colombia.
Smuggling of subsidised foods and gasoline into Colombia, led to armed gangs- one of which attacked and wounded three Venezuelan soldiers last August and since then, a sealed Border has created this bottleneck.
Venezuela`s President Nicolas Maduro blames international enemies combining with home grown subversives, sabotaging the economy. The Opposition insists it`s decades of sole dependence on the declining petroleum industry , rampant corruption in official circles and chronic mismanagement. Whoever`s to blame the common economic denominator is deprivation. Many are now calling for the Border to be completely, officially and permanently re-opened so the bridge between the two countries can serve as a vital lifeline in a time of severe recession.
TROON, Scotland (AP) -- Henrik Stenson kept hitting the best shots of his life, one after another, because there was no other way to beat Phil Mickelson in a British Open duel that ranked among the best in golf....
CLEVELAND (AP) -- A year ago, few imagined Donald Trump as a headline speaker at the Republican National Convention - let alone as its star....
The terror attack on a joyous Bastille Day crowd waiting to watch fireworks in Nice, France, indiscriminately killed dozens of people, including children. The driver of a truck slammed into the festivities Thursday taking the lives of 84 people, including six members of the same family. Among those who have been identified were Americans, Germans, Ukrainians, Swiss, Tunisians, Polish and a Russian....
NICE, France (AP) -- The painstaking process of identifying the victims of the Bastille Day truck attack in Nice dragged into its third day Sunday, adding to the anguish of family members caught between uncertainty and grief....
