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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on the U.S. presidential race (all times EDT):...
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- In a stunningly brazen move, Donald Trump met Sunday night with several women who have accused Bill Clinton of rape and other unwanted sexual advances, just over an hour before the Republican presidential nominee was stepping on the debate stage with the former president's wife, Hillary Clinton....
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) -- An agrarian party won the first round of Lithuania's parliamentary election Sunday, setting the stage for a possible change of government in the Baltic country....
(Vatican Radio) The destructive catastrophie which Hurricane Matthew has wrought has killed hundreds and the damage it`s left will take years to clear up.Listen to James Blears report Haiti, so grievously levelled by a 2010 earthquake, has been worst affected by Hurricane Matthew, which engulfed its Southern coastline in a deadly bear hug, sweeping away flimsy, makeshift homes and indeed more sturdy housing. The death toll estimate, so far is more than 900. Cholera is feared, as sewer pipes have been fractured in many areas and floodwater and freshwater are mingling. Previous outbreaks, prior to this disaster have killed more than 10,000 Haitiains.Moving on and fanning out, Hurricane Matthew has buffeted and swiped Florida, the Carolinas and Georgia. Torrential rain is causing severe flooding. North Carolina is bracing itself for up to a meter of sustained rainfall. Hurricane Matthew`s winds are decreasing, it`s diminished from ...
Rome, Italy, Oct 9, 2016 / 10:26 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Albanian priest whose testimony moved Pope Francis to tears in 2014 is one of the 17 international bishops and priests the Pope will elevate to the College of Cardinals Nov. 19.Father Ernest Troshani Simoni, 86, is one of the last survivors of the terrible Communist persecution in Albania. He shared his testimony with Pope Francis in 2014 during the Pope’s daytrip to Tirana, Albania. Pope Francis was visibly moved by the testimony and gave Fr. Simoni a warm embrace.Fr. Simoni was a seminarian in December 1944, when an atheistic Communist regime came to power in Albania. The regime sought to eliminate the faith and clergy with “arrests, torture and killings of priests and lay people for seven straight years, shedding the blood of the faithful, some of who shouted, 'Long live Christ the King,' as they were shot.”In 1948, Communists shot and killed Fr. Simoni’s Franciscan superiors. He continued h...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- At first, the drone took some explaining. Anxious villagers buzzed with rumors of a new blood-sucking thing that would fly above their homes. Witchcraft, some said....
SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Thousands of Yemenis marched in the capital Sanaa on Sunday to protest a Saudi-led coalition airstrike a day earlier that hit a funeral hall packed with hundreds of mourners, killing over 140 people....
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis named 17 new cardinals Sunday, adding like-minded prelates from dioceses big and small to the club who will elect the next pope. Three were Americans in a clear signal to the conservative U.S. church hierarchy that Francis wants moderate pastors at the helm of the U.S. church....
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) -- In the minutes before three Palm Springs officers were shot, two fatally, the suspected gunman's father told a neighbor his son was armed, "acting crazy" and wanted to shoot police....
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Samsung Electronics seemed to have its smartphone troubles under control - until authorities had to evacuate a Southwest Airlines flight in Kentucky last week for an incident that involved a replacement phone....
