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WYOMING, Ohio (AP) -- More than 15 months after he publicly begged North Korean officials to let him go home to his family, a 22-year-old college student is back in Ohio....
AVELAR, Portugal (AP) -- Raging forest fires in central Portugal killed at least 39 people, many of them trapped in their cars as flames swept over a road, in what Prime Minister Antonio Costa on Sunday called "the biggest tragedy of human life that we have known in years."...
PARIS (AP) -- French voters are casting ballots Sunday in the final round of parliamentary elections that could clinch President Emmanuel Macron's hold on power, as his fledgling party appears set to rout mainstream rivals and turn politics as usual on its head....
YOKOSUKA, Japan (AP) -- The search for seven U.S. Navy sailors missing after their destroyer collided with a container ship off Japan was called off Sunday after several bodies were found in the ship's flooded compartments, including sleeping quarters....
IMAGE: CNS photo/Northwest CatholicBy Carol ZimmermannWASHINGTON (CNS) -- Maybe it's no surprise the SeattleArchdiocese is sending a delegation of 12, as in the number of apostles, to the"Convocation of Catholic Leaders: The Joy of the Gospel in America"in Orlando, Florida, July 1-4.DeaconEric Paige, one of the 12, is the executive director for the archdiocese'sOffice of Evangelization, Formation and Discipleship. For him, it could seemlike a busman's holiday to spend four days at a gathering with 3,000 otherCatholics talking about something he works on every day.But whenasked if he hopes to either gain wisdom from the event or share what he haslearned with other participants, Paige said it would likely be a combination ofthe two.Onething he hopes to get a better grasp of during the gathering -- with itsworkshops, keynote addresses and time for prayer -- is advice on how to use moderntechnology to spread the Gospel message. But even with that goal in mind, he also is cautious that ...
HONOLULU (AP) -- No modern navigation instrumentation guided a Polynesian voyaging canoe as it followed the horizon during a three-year journey around the globe....
HUTUP, India (AP) -- The aging bus meanders through the narrow streets of a tiny village in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, the smell of manure wafting through the air. A thick darkness blankets the neighborhood ahead of the early morning sunrise....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Stephen Furst, who played naive fraternity pledge Flounder in the hit movie "Animal House," has died of complications from diabetes, his family said Saturday. Furst was 63....
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- A bomb rocked one of the busiest shopping centers in Colombia's capital Saturday, killing three people, including a 23-year-old French woman, and injuring nine others....
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- Bill Cosby's publicity team is going on the attack after a jury deadlocked on charges he drugged and molested a woman in a case that followed dozens of similar accusations....
