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MOSCOW (AP) -- Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Tuesday officially announced his bid to run in the 2018 presidential election, a move that political observers say puts pressure on President Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin....
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- A judge admonished lawyers on both sides of Bill Cosby's sexual assault case Tuesday after a courtroom shouting match over the defense team's practice of publicizing the names of the women accusing the comedian of sexual assault....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on a man who fired an assault weapon in a pizza restaurant while investigating an internet conspiracy theory (all times local):...
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) -- She survived the first stone that struck her, then the second....
BEIRUT (AP) -- The Syrian government's capture of eastern Aleppo, held for more than four years by rebels, marks a horrific new chapter for Syria's largest city. Here's a look at key events in Aleppo since the start of Syria's uprising nearly six years ago:...
BEIRUT (AP) -- The Latest on the Syrian conflict (all times local):...
NEW YORK (AP) -- A newly blond Kanye West visited Donald Trump on Tuesday, and Trump said later they talked about "life."...
NEW YORK (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday he has picked Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson to be secretary of state, calling the oil executive with close to ties to Russia one of the most accomplished "international dealmakers in the world."...
(Vatican Radio) Officials say Macedonia's governing conservatives have won the country's closely-fought early parliamentary elections, despite a massive wiretap scandal and allegations of corruption and wrongdoing. The state election commission said that the governing VMRO-DPMNE party secured 51 out of 123 seats in parliament in Sunday's vote, while the opposition social democrats took 49 seats.Listen to Stefan Bos' report: Though the key Social Democrats opposition leader had urged his supporters to celebrate victory, overnight results showed that the ruling conservative coalition of Nikola Gruevski were in fact the winner of Sunday's vote in the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia.That surprised friends and foes as it followed scandals. The political crisis began after the opposition accused Gruevski's conservative government of an illegal wiretapping operation that targeted 20,000 people, including politicians, judges, journalists, police and rel...
(Vatican Radio) Bishop Javier Echevarría Rodríguez of Opus Dei died in Rome on Monday, the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, at the age of 84.Bishop Echevarría was head of the Opus Dei organization and Grand Chancellor of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome.A statement released by Opus Dei said he died at Rome’s Biomedical Campus, where he had been since 5 Dec for treatment of a lung infection.Opus Dei was founded in 1928 by Saint Josemaría Escrivá. Its worldwide membership was around 94,000 people in 2015, including more than 2,000 priests.Spanish Bishop Echevarría was the second successor to head Opus Dei after St. Escrivá.
