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(Vatican Radio) The Serb mini-state within Bosnia-Herzegovina is holding a referendum this weekend despite international concerns that it could be part of an attempt to secede from the already volatile country and spark a proxy war between Russia and the West. Sunday's referendum on a national holiday is held more than 20 years after the end of Europe's worst conflict since World War II.Listen to Stefan Bos' report: The vote asks residents of Bosnia's Serb Republic, known as Republika Srpska, whether to maintain a national holiday on January 9, despite a Constitutional Court ruling against the referendum. Bosnia's top Court said the proposed date discriminates against Muslim Bosniaks and Catholic Croats since it falls on a Serb Orthodox Christian holiday.The referendum on "Statehood Day" is Bosnia's first since a 1992 vote on secession from then-Yugoslavia ignited three years of ethnic war in which more than 100...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Saturday received family members of the victims of the Bastille Day terror attacks in Nice, renewing his condolences and promises of prayer for their healing and for the souls of their loved-ones.“It is with profound emotion that I meet you,” said Pope Francis, “who suffer in body or in soul because, one festive evening, violence blindly struck you – you, or one of your dear ones – without regard for origin or religion.” The Holy Father went on to say, “I desire to share your pain, a pain that becomes even stronger when I think of the children, even entire families, whose lives have been so suddenly and so dramatically torn away: to each of you I assure my compassion, my closeness and my prayer.”Click below to hear our report: “Dear families,” he continued in his address to the roughly 1 thousand people gathered in the Paul VI Hall for the occasion, “I invoke our Heavenly Father, the ...
LIVERPOOL, England (AP) -- Soft-spoken socialist Jeremy Corbyn is the antithesis of Donald Trump....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian troops captured a rebel-held area on the edge of Aleppo on Saturday, tightening their siege on opposition-held neighborhoods in the northern city after what residents described as the heaviest air bombardment of the 5 ½-year civil war....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The most telling moments in presidential debates often come out of the blue - an offhand remark or unrehearsed gesture that helps to reveal the essence of a candidate who's already been poked, prodded and inspected for years....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump needs to prove to voters that he has the policy depth and gravitas to serve as commander in chief. Hillary Clinton needs a moment to connect with Americans who question whether she can be trusted....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- War crimes investigators collecting evidence of the Islamic State group's elaborate operation to kidnap thousands of women as sex slaves say they have a case to try IS leaders with crimes against humanity but cannot get the global backing to bring current detainees before an international tribunal....
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- The Latest on protests in Charlotte, North Carolina, over the fatal police shooting of a black man (all times local):...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- To much of the world, Charlotte is the Queen City - a gleaming downtown, state-of-the-art stadiums, sparkling new mass transit, the nation's banking capital....
BURLINGTON, Wash. (AP) -- Police searched Saturday for a gunman who authorities said fatally shot five people in a mall north of Seattle before fleeing toward an interstate highway on foot....
