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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. economy acquired an exclusive label Friday: Recession-free for eight full years. Yet the third-longest economic winning streak in American history still doesn't get much love....
For the first time, the federal government is proposing cutting the nicotine level in cigarettes so they aren't so addictive....
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistan's beleaguered Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif stepped down Friday after the Supreme Court ordered him removed from office over allegations of corruption, plunging the nuclear-armed nation into a political crisis....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate's surprise vote early Friday was only the latest narrow escape for "Obamacare" - the social program with nine lives that has survived dozens of congressional attempts to kill it, and two Supreme Court challenges....
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- North Korea on Friday test-fired its second intercontinental ballistic missile, which flew longer and higher than the first according to its wary neighbors, leading analysts to conclude that a wide swath of the U.S. including Los Angeles and Chicago is now within range of Pyongyang's weapons....
LONDON (AP) -- Charlie Gard, the terminally ill British baby at the center of a legal and ethical battle that attracted the attention of Pope Francis and U.S. President Donald Trump, died Friday. He was one week shy of his first birthday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The resounding Senate crash of the seven-year Republican drive to scrap the Obama health care law incited GOP finger-pointing Friday but left the party with wounded leaders and no evident pathway forward on an issue that won't go away....
The United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) on Thursday levelled a series of allegations against Pakistan, including enforced disappearances,, extrajudicial killings, the death penalty, blasphemy laws and cyber crackdown.Enforced disappearancesEnforced disappearances, seen in tribal areas and Baluchistan for the past 15 years, have become widespread across Pakistan, UNHRC member Olivier de Frouville told reporters. "This is an admitted fact even within the country that this is carried out by agents of the state," he said, adding that the government's own investigations were insufficient. A high number of people were allegedly in secret detention in military internment centres, the committee's report said. Killings were allegedly perpetrated by the police, military and security forces but there was no law explicitly against such practices. The Geneva-based UNHRC is a body of independent experts that monitors implementation of the Internation...
(Vatican Radio) Exactly four years ago, on July 29 2013, Jesuit priest Father Paolo Dall’Oglio was abducted in the rebel-held eastern city of Raqqa in Syria.Witnesses said Father Paolo was kidnapped while he was walking in the city, which had fallen under the control of members of the so-called Islamic State . There has been no news of him since. Born in 1954, the Italian priest became a Jesuit in 1975 and worked extensively in dialogue and reconciliation.Fr Dall'Oglio served for 30 years at Deir Mar Musa, a 6th-century monastery 80 kilometers north of Damascus, which he singlehandedly transformed from a desert outpost of Syriac Catholicism into an internationally celebrated inter-faith cultural center.Poet and author Marius Kociejowski met Fr Dall’Oglio on more than one occasion whilst travelling in his beloved Syria. He told Linda Bordoni how Father Paolo loved the monastery right from the beginning, and worked hard to reconstruct and restore the Deir M...
The Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops has invited the faithful in the 26 Dioceses of the country and all people of good will, to join in praying for the country. In a press statement issued 28 July 2017 at the Catholic Secretariat in Nairobi, by all the Bishops, the prelates propose to start Novena prayers for peaceful elections from 30 July to 7 August 2017. The country goes to the polls on 8 August.The Bishops also appeal to the youth in the country to restrain themselves from violence and instead urge them to become agents of peace. They encourage young people to embrace a culture of peace and to engage in peace-building activities.In the press statement, the Bishops further appeal to Kenyan media to remain objective and help create a peaceful environment that promotes justice, peace and reconciliation.They say that the country's security agencies must also intensify their preparedness in assisting the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) secure t...
