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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- An official crucial to running Kenya's presidential election next week has been found tortured and killed, the electoral commission chairman said Monday, as concerns grew that the East African nation's vote again would face dangerous unrest....
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) -- U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Monday strongly pledged America's commitment to protecting NATO allies against attacks, including the Baltic states, which have anxiously watched a growing Russian military presence in the region....
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuela's socialist government claimed a popular mandate to dramatically recast the country's political system even as the United States pledged potentially devastating oil sanctions on Monday and condemnations of the process poured in from governments around the world and the opposition at home....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Sam Shepard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Oscar-nominated actor and celebrated author whose plays chronicled the explosive fault lines of family and masculinity in the American West, has died. He was 73....
BERATZHAUSEN, Germany (AP) -- The U.S. Army soldier took a deep breath before hitting the button that sent the email to more than 200 fellow troops....
DETROIT (AP) -- Courtroom 801 is nearly empty when guards bring in Bobby Hines, hands cuffed in front of navy prison scrubs....
MOSCOW (AP) -- With a sweeping cut in the number of U.S. diplomatic personnel in Russia, President Vladimir Putin has raised the stakes further in an escalating rift with the United States....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hoping to turn the page on a tumultuous opening chapter to his presidency, President Donald Trump insisted on Monday there is "no chaos" in his White House as he swore in retired Marine Gen. John Kelly as his new chief of staff....
Bishop Cornelius Korir, the Bishop of Eldoret and Chairman of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops-Catholic Justice and Peace (KCCB-CJPC) has asked religious groups and media to strive to unite Kenyans as general elections draw near.“Religious groups should handle the people well without division. At the same time, the media has to handle the voting well without causing chaos. Sometimes we are not aware that we are causing chaos. We don’t want this country to be divided again by ethnicity,” he said.The Bishop was speaking recently during a religious leaders and media engagement at Nairobi’s Sarova Stanley Hotel.He expressed regret that some sections of media and religious groups were at the forefront of promoting hatred during the 2008 General Elections. He emphasised that mistakes of the past should never be repeated.“In 2008 there were some media groups that were really promoting hatred... There were some Bishops who were not accepted in particu...
The head of the Indonesian Archdiocese of Semarang hosting the central event of the 7th Asian Youth Day (AYD) considers it a “huge blessing” for the local Church. Archbishop Robertus Rubiyatmoko of Semarang, noted that the AYD challenges the region’s Catholic community to put into practice the diocese’s missionary pastoral project for 2016-2035. "Our greatest concern is for the Church to give more room to our youth so that they can contribute more to the development and life of the Catholic Church," he told AsiaNews. The AYD got under way on Sunday with the preliminary ‘Days in the Dioceses’ (DID), where over 2000 young Catholic participants from 21 countries, including Indonesia, are being hosted in 11 of Indonesia’s 37 dioceses from July 30 to August 2. While living in local Catholic families, they will share and learn about the faith and also celebrate ...
