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TOKYO (AP) -- Keeping North Korea from having a nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile has long been considered a key U.S. red line, and one the North has thumbed its nose at for years. Its Fourth of July ICBM launch is just the latest step in its long march toward, and maybe over, that line....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski reached their biggest audience ever when they talked Friday about President Donald Trump's tweets about their show....
On good days, American high jumper Jamie Nieto can shuffle 130 steps without a cane or walker....
HELSINKI (AP) -- Volvo will begin producing electric motors on all its cars from 2019, becoming the first major automaker to forgo traditional engines that rely exclusively on internal combustion....
NEW YORK (AP) -- A police officer was shot to death early Wednesday, ambushed inside her command post RV by an ex-convict who once ranted online about his treatment in prison and about police getting away with killing people, authorities said. He was later killed after pulling a gun on police....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump expressed frustration with China on Wednesday for failing to do more to cut off support to North Korea and exert pressure to curb its nuclear pursuits....
T here were 35,000 cases of child trafficking and 1,25,750 cases of women trafficking reported in India in 2016-17, with West Bengal state topping in both categories, a senior official of the National Anti-Trafficking Committee (NATC) has said. "Among 35,000 reported cases of child trafficking, 13,000 were registered in West Bengal. In percentage terms, it comes to 37," NATC Chairman Sk. Jinnar Ali told reporters in Kolkata on Sunday, on the sidelines of NATC’s West Bengal conference. He said in terms of women trafficking, the eastern state accounted for nearly 42 per cent of the cases in the country. The women victims were mostly trafficked to Mumbai, Chennai and Dubai. Ali said most of the cases of trafficking in women in the past one year came fromt three districts of North 24 Parganas, South 24 Parganas and Murshidabad of West Bengal. RehabilitationThe NATC conference announced it would build six more schools for the trafficking vict...
The Gulf crisis involving Qatar and its neighbouring nations has hit many Catholic families says the region’s Catholic Church authority. From a social point of view, the ongoing row between Qatar and Saudi-led Gulf states has led "many people to lose their jobs" and "created a situation of uncertainty for the future," Bishop Camillo Ballin of the Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia told AsiaNews.The prelate whose jurisdiction includes Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Bahrain, spoke about the situation of Catholic immigrants in Qatar who have been badly affected by the serious dispute that broke out in June between Riyadh and Doha. "This situation ends up touching Christians who have no personal interests in local politics," Bishop Ballin said. Uncertainty "does not encourage investment and the result is a blockaded country." The tiny, oil- and gas-rich state of Qatar has been cut off and isolated by some of the...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has sent a letter to the Italian news agency ANSA (Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata), expressing his approval and support for the new InfoMigrants news portal aimed at providing migrants with accurate information.InfoMigrants.net was launched in March by ANSA, in coordination with France’s Media Monde and Germany’s Deutsche Welle, and publishes content in English, Arabic, and French.Pope: 'Project promotes integration'In the letter to ANSA’s Editor-in-Chief, Luigi Contu, Pope Francis said he learned “with pleasure” about the “important project”. The service seeks to provide migrants and prospective migrants with information regarding all aspects of the journey to Europe and life there once they have arrived.“I wish to express my sincere appreciation for the important project, and I hope, on the one hand, that it promotes the integration of these persons with all due respect for the laws of...
Bad Füssing, Germany, Jul 5, 2017 / 05:25 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Cardinal Joachim Meisner, archbishop emeritus of Cologne, Germany and one of four cardinals who sent the "dubia" to Pope Francis last year, passed away Wednesday morning at the age of 83.According to a press release from the Archdiocese of Cologne, the cardinal died July 5 while on vacation in Bad Füssing, Germany. Recently, the prelate had lived in Cologne.Archbishop of Cologne from 1989-2014, he retired with the permission of Pope Francis in February 2014, at the age of 80, the same year his age made him ineligible to vote in a conclave.Cardinal Meisner, alongside Cardinals Carlo Caffarra, Walter Brandmüller and Raymond Leo Burke, submitted five "dubia," or doubts, about the interpretation of Amoris laetitia to Pope Francis on Sept. 19, 2016.The letter, made public in November, asked for clarification on Chapter 8 of the document, which touches on the reception of communion for divorced an...
