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BEIRUT (AP) -- The top U.N. official in Syria on Monday demanded immediate and unconditional humanitarian access to tens of thousands of people trapped in four towns, warning of starvation....
From fireworks soaring above the Washington Monument to hot dogs being downed in New York City's famed frank-eating contest, Americans aren't shy about celebrating their nation's birthday. Many places are rolling out long-established Independence Day traditions on Monday (even if some of those traditions aren't as long-established as they sound). Some communities are trying new things to mark the holiday, even as others are paring back. Some Fourth of July highlights fro...
BAGHDAD (AP) -- As the death toll from the weekend truck bombing in Baghdad climbed to 157, Iraq's embattled prime minister ordered new security measures, including abandoning the use of bomb-detection wands that U.S. experts pronounced worthless years ago....
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- State-linked Saudi news websites reported an explosion Monday near one of Islam's holiest sites in the city of Medina, as two suicide bombers struck in different cities without killing anyone....
A leading Catholic Church authority in Bangladesh has condemned Friday’s terror attack in the capital, Dhaka, as an “unjustified Barbarous act”, saying, “God cannot tolerate this massacre.” “God’s name cannot and must not be mixed up with such acts. Now Muslim believers must stand up and intervene to save their religion,” Bishop Gervas Rozario of Rajshahi, the president of the Commission for Justice and Peace of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Bangladesh (CBCB), told AsiaNews in comments on the terrorist attack on the Holey Artisan Bakery café. Bishop Rozario demanded “unanimous condemnation, saying, “No one, of any religion, can justify killing. It is sad to realize that the hostages died in this way… Peace must prevail upon all of us. " He said the Bangladeshi Church "is praying for the victims of Islamic terrorism. May God grant eternal peace to the departed sou...
(Vatican Radio) The Franciscans and the Bishop of the Italian hill town of Assisi, Domenico Sorrentino announced on Monday that Pope Francis will visit the Umbrian village on Thursday August 4th. During the afternoon visit to the Porziuncola inside the Basilica of St Mary of the Angels, the Pope will officially mark the 8th centenary of the event known as the “Pardon of Assisi.”The papal trip to Assisi is being described as a private pilgrimage to the tiny chapel which St Francis built and where he founded the Franciscan order at the beginning of the 13th century.Listen to the report by Tracey McClure: Over the centuries the simple stone hut has been beautifully decorated by artists depicting events from the life of the ‘poor man’ of Assisi, as St Francis is known here in Italy. The frescos include scenes portraying the origins of the Pardon, or Indulgence, which is celebrated at the beginning of August each year.According to tradition, on August 1st 1216, ...
LONDON (AP) -- The Latest from Wimbledon (all times local):...
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country's raid on Uganda's Entebbe airport 40 years ago, in which his brother was killed, "changed the course" of his life....
LONDON (AP) -- The head of the U.K. Independence Party, Nigel Farage, resigned Monday as party leader, the latest British political chief to tumble amid the political turmoil following the country's vote to leave the European Union....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- They've been bitter rivals, allies and colleagues....
