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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Turkey's president slammed the United States on Friday, claiming it was not standing firmly against a failed military coup and accused it of harboring the plot's alleged mastermind, as a government crackdown in the coup's aftermath strained Turkey's ties with key allies....
MIAMI (AP) -- Mosquitoes have apparently begun spreading the Zika virus on the U.S. mainland for the first time, health officials said Friday, a long-feared turn in the epidemic that is sweeping Latin America and the Caribbean....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Donald Trump pulled off the upset - at least in television popularity....
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Fresh off a spirited convention, Hillary Clinton told prospective voters Friday they face a "stark choice" in November and pressed ahead with the scalding rhetoric against her Republican rival that marked many of the speeches in Philadelphia. Another distraction arose, however, as her aides acknowledged that a hacking attack that exposed Democratic Party emails also reached into a computer system used by her own campaign....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A computer service used by the campaign of Hillary Clinton was hacked as part of a broader breach of the Democratic National Committee, an intrusion for which the Russian government is the leading suspect, the campaign said Friday....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis told young people that the world needs those who do not live to live their lives “halfway” and who like Christ are ready to spend their lives serving the poorest and most vulnerable. He said the Way of the Cross is Jesus’ style and is a way that fears no lack of success, ostracism or solitude. The Pope was speaking at the conclusion of a Way of the Cross event attended by young people taking part in the World Youth Day gathering in the Polish city of Krakow. During his address to the young people, the Pope had affectionate words of greeting for “our brothers and sisters from Syria who have fled from the war.” The Syrian refugees were among a group of about 20 young people helping to carry the Cross during the first station. The others included a Polish couple who until recently lived on the streets and young people from Italy, Argentina, Ukraine and Pakistan. Please find below a translation into English of the Po...
(Vatican Radio) The new incoming just inaugurated President of Peru must make some practical political concessions, if he`s to boost the economy and get things done. Freedom of action might well follow another form of freedom as James Blears reports.Listen: At seventy seven ex Wall Street afficinado Pedro Pablo Kuczynski who`s no spring chicken, insists he`s still got it up top. But to stay on top, he`s going to need a little help for more than just his friends. His Center-right Peruvians for Change Party holds just 18 seats in Congress. He only defeated Keiko Fujimori, the Candidate of the Popular Force Party, by a quarter of a percentage point. But more to the point, her Party holds 73 seats. The price will almost inevitably involve 78 year old former President Alberto Fujimori being released from prison, where he`s serving a 25 year term for human rights abuses. Outgoing President Ollanta Humala ...
(Vatican Radio) It was a day dedicated to showing the Christian response to pain and suffering. Coming midway through his five day visit to Poland, Pope Francis began the day on Friday with a visit to the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau and ended it with a Way of the Cross led by young people in Krakow’s Blonia Park.In between those two events he visited a children’s hospital where some of the most severely ill children from all over the country are treated. Philippa Hitchen reports:Listen: It was a particularly poignant meeting as the Pope and the Polish Prime Minister were welcomed by rows of sick children, many of them in wheelchairs, alongside family members and staff from the Prokocim Pediatric hospital.Originally built by money from the Polish American community and later by grants from the U.S. government, the hospital treats thousands of children each year, in particular those suffering from the most advanced tumours, severely premature babies and c...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis’ third day in Poland was a day of sombre reflection as he visited the infamous Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, he spent time with young patients at a Childrenìs Hospital in Krakow, and he joined young people in a Way of the Cross Procession.Vatican Radio’s Lydia O’Kane is in Poland reporting on Pope Francis’ 15th Apostolic Journey abroad and speaks about her impressions of the day…Listen:
(Vatican Radio)The theme of this Way of the Cross for World Youth Day was the path of mercy and this solemn event opened in Blonia Park in Krakow to the anthem of the Jubilee Year performed by a talented youth orchestra and choir with Pope Francis looking on.In a prelude to the mediations for this evening, a girl in Marian like clothes took to the stage creating a design drawn in sand which revealed the face of Christ.All through the Via Crucis the World Youth Day cross was brought to each station by a different group of young people which included a group of refugees from Syria, a former homeless couple from Poland and nuns from the missionaries of charity; all symbolising the works of mercy.Many of the stops on the way to Calvary were artistically re-enacted through the medium of dance and at the 10th station an acrobat took to the sky where the cloth wound around him fell away to symbolise Jesus being stripped of his garments.At the 12 station and to the strains of Samuel Barbe...
