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OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to end a five-decade civil war that has killed more than 200,000 people - and said he received the award in the name of the Colombian people....
Nairobi, Kenya, Oct 7, 2016 / 12:55 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A deadly attack on Christians in northeast Kenya was intended to drive them out of the region, a radio station run by the militant Islamist group al-Shabab has claimed.The group said that its militants were behind a grenade and gun attack on a residential block in the town of Mandera, when people were sleeping, BBC News reports. The attack killed six people.The group said via radio that the attack happened as planned and was aimed at Christians. A spokesman for the group told the BBC that the group wanted non-Muslims to leave areas it regards as Muslim.Militants also attacked a telecommunications site, according to Mandera County commissioner Fredrick Shiswa, who said this was a diversion from the attack on the neighborhood.Shiswa said the attack appeared to have been planned over a long period and was carried out with efficiency.Mandera is on the border of Somalia, where the al-Qaeda affiliated group is based.Many of the town...
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas received a clean bill of health after undergoing an emergency heart procedure on Thursday. But his brief hospitalization drew attention to the lack of a clear successor to the aging leader and the ongoing rift between rival governments in the West Bank and Gaza Strip....
BERGSHAMRA, Sweden (AP) -- Emelie Eriksson has a bond with her son that hardly seems possible: She and her son were born from the same womb....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Monica Lewinsky tends to avoid politics these days, after becoming instantly famous nearly 20 years ago as the White House intern who had an affair with President Bill Clinton....
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Like other Americans, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are steering clear of battleground Florida, where Hurricane Matthew threatened to wreak havoc on the final stretch of presidential campaigning....
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- The Philippine defense chief said Friday that he told the U.S. military that plans for joint patrols and naval exercises in the disputed South China Sea have been put on hold, the first concrete break in defense cooperation after months of increasingly strident comments by the country's new president....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's long been clear that House Speaker Paul Ryan is, shall we say, not wholly comfortable with Donald Trump's presidential candidacy....
SHANGHAI (AP) -- Early one morning in October 2002, a dense white cloud silently filled Moscow's Dubrovka Theater....
SHANGHAI (AP) -- For a few thousand dollars, Chinese companies offer to export a powerful chemical that has been killing unsuspecting drug users and is so lethal that it presents a potential terrorism threat, an Associated Press investigation has found....
