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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Long before he was president of the United States or even governor of California, Ronald Reagan had an army of star-struck movie fans who wrote him letters - and who to their surprise often got a personal reply....
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis said Friday that Catholics should look to their own consciences more than Vatican rules to negotiate the complexities of sex, marriage and family life, demanding the church shift its emphasis from doctrine to mercy in confronting some of the thorniest issues facing the faithful....
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Bernie Sanders' claim that Hillary Clinton isn't qualified to be president landed with a boom this week. The blow was far from the first - and won't likely be the last - from the candidate who pledged to stay away from negative campaigning....
BAGHDAD (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry made an unannounced stop in Baghdad on Friday to meet Iraq's prime minister and other top officials at a time of increased military momentum against the Islamic State but deep political uncertainty in the unstable country....
(Vatican Radio) Greek authorities are encountering mounting problems in their drive to clear the migrant-clogged port of Piraeus by busing migrants to more secure accommodation. The great majority still refuse to board the buses, believing they have a better chance of reaching northern Europe by staying where they are.Listen to John Carr's report: Yesterday one Afghan man tried to throw his three-month-old infant at the police when they tried to restore order after a demonstration. Only a small fraction of the 4,600 people living in tents in Piraeus have agreed to be relocated so far, while more arrived from the islands this morning.The situation is just as bad at Idomeni on the Greece-Macedonia border, where yesterday hundreds of migrants tried to storm the barrier at the closed border and were driven back by Greek police. Officials in Athens believe activists from unnamed NGOs could be inciting the migrants to stay put and defy the authorities.But with the tourist seaso...
(Vatican Radio) Greek authorities are encountering mounting problems in their drive to clear the migrant-clogged port of Piraeus by busing migrants to more secure accommodation. The great majority still refuse to board the buses, believing they have a better chance of reaching northern Europe by staying where they are.
Listen to John Carr's report:
Yesterday one Afghan man tried to throw his three-month-old infant at the police when they tried to restore order after a demonstration. Only a small fraction of the 4,600 people living in tents in Piraeus have agreed to be relocated so far, while more arrived from the islands this morning.
The situation is just as bad at Idomeni on the Greece-Macedonia border, where yesterday hundreds of migrants tried to storm the barrier at the closed border and were driven back by Greek police. Officials in Athens believe activists from unnamed NGOs could be inciting the migrants to stay put and defy the authorities.
But with the tourist season almost here, many observers believe the Greeks will eventually have to bite the bullet and use force to clear both Piraeus and Idomeni.
BEIRUT (AP) -- Mohammed Khous was walking from the field hospital heading for his son's house nearby to rest between operations. He would never make it: a sniper's bullet to the head felled the 70-year-old in the street. With that, the Syrian town of Zabadani - under heavy siege by government forces and allied Hezbollah militia - lost its last doctor....
PANAMA CITY (AP) -- Rich and influential people around the globe have found themselves under siege since a major data leak revealed their ties to secretive financial accounts and shell companies in low-tax havens used to hide wealth....
TOKYO (AP) -- Next week, Secretary of State John Kerry will become the highest-ranking American government official to visit Hiroshima, where 140,000 Japanese died from the first of two atomic bombs dropped by his country in the closing days of World War II more than 70 years ago....
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Ted Cruz will have hundreds of influential Republican donors and Jewish leaders all to himself this weekend in Las Vegas as he addresses the Republican Jewish Coalition....
BAGHDAD (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry made an unannounced stop in Baghdad on Friday to meet Iraq's prime minister and other top officials at a time of increased military momentum against the Islamic State but deep political uncertainty in the unstable country....
