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WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) -- After months of promising to engage more with Russia, President-elect Donald Trump vowed to enhance America's nuclear capabilities, admonishing Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday that he hopes both global powers can restore collaboration so that "we do not have to travel an alternate path."...
(Vatican Radio) Germany has expressed relief after Italian police confirmed that they shot dead the man believed to be responsible for this week's Berlin Christmas market truck attack that left 12 people dead and 49 injured. Officials said the shooting happened after the suspect pulled a gun on them during a routine check in the early hours of Friday. The 24-year-old Tunisian Anis Amri travelled to Italy from France, triggering a Europe-wide manhunt and criticism from euroskeptics over Europe's open-border Schengen pact. Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: The Islamic State group acknowledged on Friday that Amri was shot dead in a police shootout overnight in Milan when he tried to carry out another attack. It said he carried out Monday's rampage which involved driving a truck deliberately into crowd killing 12 people and injuring nearly 50 more. The group's news agency posted a video of Amri pledging allegiance to Islamic State leader Abu ...
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Radio City Rockettes will be dancing at President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration next month, but not everyone is kicking up their heels at the booking....
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- The nation's largest freight railroad has agreed to more thorough inspections and maintenance improvements after a fiery oil train derailment in Oregon and the discovery of more than 800 potential safety violations across its sprawling network....
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- A Little Rock man who fired his gun into a car, striking and killing a 3-year-old boy, did so because he thought the driver of that vehicle was following him too closely, police said in an affidavit released Friday following the suspect's arrest....
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Frustrated after seeing another candidate secure the presidency without winning the national popular vote, mostly Democratic lawmakers in several capitols want their states to join a 10-year-old movement to work around the Electoral College....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Hundreds of people returned to eastern Aleppo neighborhoods on Friday to check on their homes after the last opposition fighters left the city, picking through debris and wreckage for personal belongings blasted by years of fighting....
MILAN (AP) -- A routine request for ID papers outside a deserted train station in Milan at 3 a.m. Friday led to a police shootout that killed the Tunisian fugitive wanted in the deadly Christmas market attack in Berlin....
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- In a striking rupture with past practice, the United States allowed the U.N. Security Council on Friday to condemn Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem as a "flagrant violation" of international law. In doing so, the outgoing Obama administration brushed aside Donald Trump's demands that the U.S. exercise its veto and provided a climax to years of icy relations with Israel's leadership....
(Vatican Radio) Thanks to Pope Francis over 2 million people affected by the humanitarian crisis in eastern Ukraine will receive a first installment of much needed aid in time for Christmas.A communiqué released by the Papal charitable office ‘Cor Unum’ reveals that about 6 million euros, out of the 12 million that have been collected so far, will reach vulnerable people in the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk, Zaporozhe, Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk.The press release points out that aid will be distributed regardless of religion or ethnic group.The money was collected by Catholic churches across Europe in response to a personal appeal by the Pope for a collection on April 24, 2016, in aid of Ukrainians affected by the conflict in the east of the nation. He then set up a committee presided over ‘in loco’ by the Auxiliary Bishop of Kharkiv- Zaporozhe, Jan Sobilo, and coordinated by the Apostolic Nuncio in Ukraine, Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti, ...
