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NEW YORK (AP) -- Declaring that the Mafia is not just the stuff of movie scripts, federal prosecutors charged nearly four dozen people Thursday with being part of an East Coast crime syndicate, including an old-school mobster in New York and a reputed mob chieftain in Philadelphia who has been pursued by the government for decades....
BEIJING (AP) -- A Chinese lawyer was sentenced to seven years in prison Thursday in the third in a series of subversion trials demonstrating the ruling Communist Party's determination to silence independent human rights activists and government critics....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Three experimental Zika vaccines protected monkeys against infection from the virus, an encouraging sign as research moves into studies in people....
MIAMI (AP) -- Jessica Ardente waited 36 years to have her first baby. Her parents will visit in two weeks to watch their grandson's ultrasound. There are cribs and car seats to shop for, a nursery to decorate, and bottles, diapers and clothes to buy....
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- A $400 million pallet of cash delivered to the Iranian government at the same time a complicated nuclear deal was settled and four Americans were released was unrelated and not a ransom, Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Melania Trump obtained a work visa before she modelled professionally in the United States in the mid-1990s, her former modeling agent told The Associated Press. That appeared to back up her statements as recently as Thursday that she adhered to U.S. immigration laws as she went from a Slovenian model years later to an American citizen....
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Back on the defensive, Donald Trump's campaign chief acknowledged conflict inside Trump Tower on Thursday as anxious Republicans struggled to shift voters' attention to Hillary Clinton's record on foreign policy....
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) -- The World Health Organization and its partners shipped more than 6 million yellow fever vaccines to Angola in February to quash an emerging epidemic, yet when they asked country officials the following month what happened to the vaccines, they discovered that about 1 million doses had mysteriously disappeared....
The Constant Lievens Academy of Health Sciences and Hospital (CLAHS) at Mandar, near Ranchi, the capital of the northern Indian state of Jharkhand, is destined to be a medical college and hospital in the heartland of a far-flung tribal region where healthcare for the vast number of its poor and marginalized is a luxury. The project of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI), named after a pioneering Belgian Jesuit missionary in Ranchi, was inaugurated at a ceremony on Nov. 7, 2015, in the presence of CBCI officials, where Jharkhand State chief minister, Raghubar Das was the chief guest. The new venture is envisioned in the pattern of the CBCI’s prestigious St. John’s Medical College in Bangalore. To know more about the Constant Lievens Academy of Health Sciences and Hospital, we talked to Auxiliary Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas of Ranchi, the Chairman of the Executive Committee CBCI Society for Medical Education – North India.&...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis made a private pilgrimage on Thursday to the Italian town of Assisi and spoke about the importance of forgiveness, saying only the path of forgiveness can truly renew the Church and the world. He lamented that “too many people are caught up in resentment and harbour hatred because they are incapable of forgiving.” “These people,” he went on, “ruin their own lives and the lives of those around them.” The Pope’s words came during an address delivered inside the Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels in Assisi after earlier going to pray in silence inside the small Porziuncola chapel where the Italian saint founded the Franciscan order in the 13th century. The purpose of Pope Francis’ pilgrimage there was to mark the 800th anniversary of the “Pardon of Assisi” during this Jubilee Year of Mercy. Please find below a translation into English of Pope Francis’ prepared remarks insid...
