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NEW YORK (AP) -- For child-welfare agencies across the United States, it's the ultimate sanction: terminating the rights of parents to raise their own children due to concerns about abuse and neglect....
BURLINGAME, Calif. (AP) -- The Republican Party in California has been riven for decades between those who want to tack to the ideological center to expand its diminishing appeal and those who want it to enforce conservative purity. But the prospect of Donald Trump clinching the nomination in the Golden State has scrambled the party's political fault lines in advance of its pivotal June primary, forging unexpected alliances that blur those longstanding divisions....
LONDON (AP) -- Bettors looking for a wager with a fancifully high payoff last summer could have gone into their local betting shop in England and risked a bit of cash on the proposition that Elvis Presley would be found alive and well....
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iranian moderates and reformists who support last year's landmark nuclear deal have won the largest number of seats in parliament following runoff elections, marking a shift away from hard-liners and boosting moderate President Hassan Rouhani as he looks to secure a second term in office....
BEIRUT (AP) -- The Syrian government launched new airstrikes Saturday on insurgent-held neighborhoods in Aleppo while rebels shelled government-held parts of the northern city, as a truce in other parts of the country appeared to be holding on its first day....
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- A building that collapsed amid heavy rains in Nairobi, killing at least 12 people and injuring at least 134, did not have an occupancy permit, officials said Saturday as they ordered its owner to turn himself in....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two months, 31 arguments and 18 decisions since the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, is the Supreme Court hopelessly deadlocked or coping as a party of eight?...
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Anti-government protesters tore down walls and poured into the Iraqi capital's heavily fortified Green Zone on Saturday, where they stormed parliament in a major escalation of a political crisis that has simmered for months....
Pope Francis on Saturday appointed Indian Archbishop Francis Assisi Chullikatt, Apostolic Nuncio to Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. Archbishop Francis Chullikatt was born in Bolghatty, Kochi, India, on 20th March 1953. He was ordained a priest for Verapoly diocese on June 3, 1978. Was appointed Titular Archbishop of Ostra and the Apostolic Nuncio to Jordan and Iraq on 29 April 2006. On July 17, 2010 he was appointed the Permanent Observer to United Nation, the office he held till July 1, 2014.A priest for 37 years and a bishop for 9 years Archbishop Chullikatt a native of Kerala, India, as an archbishop chose his motto as Fidei in Virtute", "By the power of faith".
Pope Francis on Saturday appointed Indian Archbishop Francis Assisi Chullikatt, Apostolic Nuncio to Kazakhstan and Tajikistan.
Archbishop Francis Chullikatt was born in Bolghatty, Kochi, India, on 20th March 1953. He was ordained a priest for Verapoly diocese on June 3, 1978. Was appointed Titular Archbishop of Ostra and the Apostolic Nuncio to Jordan and Iraq on 29 April 2006. On July 17, 2010 he was appointed the Permanent Observer to United Nation, the office he held till July 1, 2014.
A priest for 37 years and a bishop for 9 years Archbishop Chullikatt a native of Kerala, India, as an archbishop chose his motto as Fidei in Virtute", "By the power of faith".
