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BANGKOK (AP) -- A 96-year-old confidant of late King Bhumibol Adulyadej has been formally confirmed as the regent to manage the throne in the place of the crown prince and heir apparent, but it wasn't clear how long the caretaker arrangement would last....
SEATTLE (AP) -- Trees and power lines snapped Saturday as a powerful storm bearing the remnants of a Pacific typhoon hit the Northwest....
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korea and the U.S. said Sunday that the latest missile launch by North Korea ended in a failure after the projectile reportedly exploded soon after liftoff....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hillary Clinton generally avoided direct criticism of Wall Street as she examined the causes and responses to the financial meltdown during a series of paid speeches to Goldman Sachs, according to transcripts disclosed Saturday by WikiLeaks....
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(Vatican Radio) Fresh diplomatic talks were were under way Saturday in a new effort to try to end the Syrian conflict which has killed more than 400,000 people and drove hundreds of thousands of refugees into Europe. The meeting in Lausanne, Swizerland, between U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and top diplomats from the United Nations and regional powers, is the first since Washington halted bilateral negotiations with Moscow last month. Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: With the Syrian and Russian governments pressing an offensive against rebel-held parts in Syria's devastated city of Aleppo, no one was predicting a quick breakthrough in peace talks. Days of deadly Russian air strikes in Aleppo prompted Kerry to end U.S.-Russian talks on Syria, including discussions over a proposed military alliance against militants liked to the Islamic State and al-Qaida-terror groups. Last week he accused Russia o...
(Vatican Radio) With several European countries building fences to stop migrants fleeing war and poverty, Croatian animal activists have now raised the alarm about the impact on migratory wildlife: They say Hungary's recently built razor-wire border fence is an ecological disaster threatening thousands of deer and other wild animals as winter sets in. Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: Hungary's anti-migration government has denied wrongdoing, but Croatian environmental experts say the structure is blocking the natural migratory patterns of thousands of deer and other wild animals. Large herds of red deer used to roam freely across the Croatia-Hungary border, their numbers steadily expanding in this wildlife-rich corner of Europe. But protection activists and hunters in Croatia now warn the numbers have begun declining since the border fence went up last year. Initially deer would get tangled in the wire and killed, but animals soon began recognizing the danger....
Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Oct 15, 2016 / 04:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Fr. Donald Calloway could give St. Augustine a run for his money, in terms of dramatic conversion stories.In a recent Vimeo video produced by Spirit Juice Studios and the Knights of Columbus, Fr. Calloway recalled his radical transformation from atheist, drug-addicted high school dropout to Catholic priest.The child of a military family, Donald (his family called him Donnie), moved from Virginia to Southern California with his parents at the age of 10.He was enticed by the lifestyle of Southern California, and by the age of 13, was living solely for pleasure, a pursuit that would eventually lead to a downward spiral landing him in rehab, jail, and with suicidal thoughts.When his dad announced one day that the family would be moving to Japan, Donnie became “enraged” at the thought of leaving.Once in Japan, Donnie sought out friends who were into the same things he was.Those friends soon became his conne...
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says Yemen's Houthi rebels released two U.S. citizens on Saturday, without identifying the Americans....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- An early morning argument at a Los Angeles restaurant operating out of a converted home apparently triggered gunfire that left three people dead and 12 wounded, two gravely, authorities said Saturday....
