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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Ruthless dictator? Economic reformer? Shrewd master of nuclear brinksmanship?...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congressional Republicans and Democrats have reached initial agreement on the biggest expansion of college aid for military veterans in a decade, removing a 15-year time limit to tap into benefits and boosting money for thousands in the National Guard and Reserve....
(Vatican Radio) Twice President of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, has been sentenced to nine and a half years, after being convicted by a Judge of corruption charges. Listen to James Blears report: Judge Sergio Moro found Lula guilty of accepting the equivalent of 1.2 million dollars in bribes, principally in the form of a luxury apartment in return for steering State Petroleum Company Petrobras contracts the way of engineering company OAS. Lula, who's denied any wrong doing, says it's been a political witch hunt. Characteristically he's said: "I'll keep fighting." Born into acute poverty, a shoe shine boy who became a union leader, and twice President of Brazil, economically pulling it up by its bootstraps, Lula remains very popular amongst the millions he helped elevate from dire poverty. His chosen successor Dilma Rousseff was impeached and removed from the Presidency for allegedly manip...
Montevideo, Uruguay, Jul 13, 2017 / 12:32 am (CNA/EWTN News).- For many people, a warm meal is a way to come together, celebrate, and spend time with friends and family. For homeless people living on the streets of Montevideo, Uruguay, it’s an experience that’s rare. But about 500 young people in the city are working to change that.Every night, especially in wintertime, around 16 groups coming from universities, parishes, and movements in the archdiocese go out to distribute more than 1900 meals to the city's homeless residents.The volunteers get together in late afternoon to cook, using donations from parishioners, businesses and the young people themselves. When night comes with its low temperatures, they set out to meet the most needy.One of these groups is the Luceros Movement, made up of more than 100 volunteers who gather Mondays and Wednesdays at the Virgin of Carmen and Saint Therese Parish to prepare more than 100 meals.This group came about after a pil...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- With "Game of Thrones" off the Emmy battlefield this time around, the likely beneficiaries will be streaming dramas and, in a reversal of fortune, a broadcast series....
ROMEOVILLE, Ill. (AP) -- McDonald's is hoping to make a difference in its future seven seconds at a time....
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- The U.S.'s top diplomat was expected to travel back to Qatar on Thursday for more talks with the country's 37-year-old emir, a day after wrapping up discussions with the king of Saudi Arabia and other officials from Arab countries lined up against Qatar....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Linda Bell, a beekeeper and farmer who makes about $11,000 a year, feels Washington power brokers have no intention of making health care affordable....
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- An Indiana senator railed against Carrier Corp. for moving manufacturing jobs to Mexico last year, even as he profited from a family business that relies on Mexican labor to produce dye for ink pads, according to records reviewed by The Associated Press....
BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) -- A series of military victories over extremist Islamic groups along Libya's Mediterranean coastline has forced hundreds of militants, including Islamic State fighters, to seek refuge in the vast deserts of the North African nation, already home to militias from neighboring countries, cross-border criminal gangs and mercenaries....
