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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Before the U.S. attack on a Syrian air base, President Donald Trump accused his predecessor of doing nothing when Syria's government used chemical weapons against its population in 2013. Trump is right that President Barack Obama issued what amounted to an empty threat of military action. The circumstances, though, were more complicated than Trump described....
STOCKHOLM (AP) -- One brutal attack by a man who drove a stolen truck into shoppers in Stockholm has brought Sweden's open-door immigration policies under increased scrutiny - and raised the question if Swedish society, considered democratic and egalitarian, has failed to integrate its newcomers....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian President Bashar Assad was required to declare and dispose of all his chemical weapons under U.N. supervision in 2014, but his forces have been accused of using them since then, most recently this week, when a chemical attack in northern Syria killed nearly 90 people....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Warplanes on Saturday struck the Syrian town where a chemical attack had killed scores of people earlier this week, as Turkey warned that a retaliatory U.S. missile strike on a Syrian air base would only be "cosmetic" if greater efforts are not made to remove President Bashar Assad from power....
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- In the aftermath of President Donald Trump's surprise strikes on Syria, his allies and adversaries have searched for some broader meaning in his decision....
The Catholic bishops of the Philippines held talks with top government officials during which they expressed strong commitment to develop positive relations despite differences over President Rodrigo Duterte bloody war on drugs. The initial meeting was held at the headquarters of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) in Manila on March 31 in what is seen as a major step by the two parties to sort our differences.Interviewed with ANC television on March 4, CBCP President, Archbishop Socrates Villegas of Lingayen-Dagupan stressed that dialogue was the best way forward. “There are issues where we differ in principle, but we should not allow such differences to prevent us from cooperating such as working for the poor and empowering Mindanao,” the archbishop said. “We should support him on peace-making, alleviating the situation of the poor and everything that is for the benefit ...
A group of diocesan priests in India have pledged to take Mother Teresa of Calcutta as a model and source of their inspiration and life. 113 members of the Conference of Diocesan Priests of India (CDPI) from 67 dioceses voiced their desire when they recently met in the eastern metropolis of Kolkata, formerly Calcutta, together with several bishops, including local Archbishop Thomas D'Souza of Calcutta. The theme was "The life and mission of Mother Teresa reflected in the life and mission of the diocesan priests"."I think the effect of this will last for years in the hearts and minds of diocesan priests of India," Fr. Raymond Joseph Irudhayasamy, CDPI Executive Secretary told Fides. The priests made a pilgrimage to the tomb of Mother Teresa praying and celebrating the Eucharist on her grave, and were "deeply touched by her burning desire to love only Christ" and to make the Eucharist "the pivot of her life". "Mother Teres...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Travelers stuck in endless delays at New York City's cramped and congested LaGuardia Airport can feel like prisoners. Now there's a plan to liberate them by closing the city's most notorious jail....
DALLAS (AP) -- Masha Gregory was nervous to move out of her parents' home and into her own place, where the 26-year-old Pennsylvania woman worried about making friends and being away from her parents. But after living in her own apartment at a complex that focuses on adults with autism, she's made new friends and found she loves her independence....
ATLANTA (AP) -- A Georgia special congressional campaign has become an internal conservative squabble, with a national conservative group blasting a Republican establishment favorite as a big-spending "career politician," while other GOP hopefuls argue over who's most loyal to President Donald Trump....
