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(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis made an intense, 1-day visit to Genoa on Saturday. With a departure at 7AM, the schedule of the visit to the northern Italian port city on the Ligurian coast included six major appointments:• A meeting with the “world of labour”;• Another with the Bishops, priests, seminarians, and religious of Liguria, along with lay curial collaborators and representatives of other religious confessions at the Cathedral of San Lorenzo;• An encounter with young people attached to the Diocesan Mission at the Marian Sanctuary of the Madonna della Guardia; • Lunch at the sanctuary with a number of poor and homeless persons, refugees, and prisoners; • A moment with children from the various departments of the Giannina Gaslini Pediatric Hospital; • Solemn Mass at the Piazzale Kennedy named for the first Catholi...
BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) -- The Libya connection in the May 22 Manchester concert suicide bombing and Friday's attack on Christians in Egypt has shone a light on the threat posed by militant Islamic groups that have taken advantage of lawlessness in the troubled North African nation to put down roots, recruit fighters and export jihadists to cause death and carnage elsewhere....
John F. Kennedy was born 100 years ago Monday, and a new book recounts his brief but eventful presidency - and the style and wit with which he shaped the hopes of a generation - through day-by-day reports drawn from coverage at the time, right up to his assassination in November 1963....
MANCHESTER, England (AP) -- Britain reduced its terrorism threat level a notch, from "critical" to "severe" on Saturday, as authorities said they had made major progress in unravelling the plot behind the Manchester concert bombing....
LONDON (AP) -- British Airways canceled all flights from London's Heathrow and Gatwick airports on Saturday as a global IT failure upended the travel plans of tens of thousands of people on a busy U.K. holiday weekend....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's been a muted week for the "real" Donald Trump, the Twitter account where the president normally says a lot of things that are unreal. That respite may have come to a close, though, as he wrapped up his foreign trip with yet another mistold tale about NATO....
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- A man who police say fatally stabbed two people who tried to stop him from yelling anti-Islamic slurs on a Portland light-rail train spent time in prison for robbery and kidnapping charges years ago, according to court records and a defense attorney....
TAORMINA, Sicily (AP) -- The Latest on Group of Seven summit (all times local):...
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) -- Music legend Gregg Allman, whose bluesy vocals and soulful touch on the Hammond B-3 organ helped propel the Allman Brothers Band to superstardom and spawn Southern rock, died Saturday, a publicist said. He was 69....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump's son-in-law and now top White House adviser Jared Kushner proposed a secret back channel between the Kremlin and the Trump transition team during a December meeting with a leading Russian diplomat....
