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(Vatican Radio) Thousands of hungry and needy Venezuelans crossed the border into Colombia, for a second time this month, to buy the bare necessities. James Blears reports about another twelve hour window of opportunity.Listen: Heavily armed with umbrellas, to combat torrential rain, thousands of Venezuelans went shopping in Colombia for food, medicines and even toilet rolls, which can`t be found in their own supermarkets. Some took eight hours to be bused to the San Antonio Del Táchira crossing, leading to Cucuta in Colombia.Smuggling of subsidised foods and gasoline into Colombia, led to armed gangs- one of which attacked and wounded three Venezuelan soldiers last August and since then, a sealed Border has created this bottleneck.Venezuela`s President Nicolas Maduro blames international enemies combining with home grown subversives, sabotaging the economy. The Opposition insists it`s decades of sole dependence on the declining ...
TROON, Scotland (AP) -- Henrik Stenson kept hitting the best shots of his life, one after another, because there was no other way to beat Phil Mickelson in a British Open duel that ranked among the best in golf....
CLEVELAND (AP) -- A year ago, few imagined Donald Trump as a headline speaker at the Republican National Convention - let alone as its star....
The terror attack on a joyous Bastille Day crowd waiting to watch fireworks in Nice, France, indiscriminately killed dozens of people, including children. The driver of a truck slammed into the festivities Thursday taking the lives of 84 people, including six members of the same family. Among those who have been identified were Americans, Germans, Ukrainians, Swiss, Tunisians, Polish and a Russian....
NICE, France (AP) -- The painstaking process of identifying the victims of the Bastille Day truck attack in Nice dragged into its third day Sunday, adding to the anguish of family members caught between uncertainty and grief....
ISTANBUL (AP) -- The Latest on Turkey's failed military coup. (all times local):...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The attacks on public servants and the rule of law "have to stop," President Barack Obama said Sunday after another shooting spree targeting police killed three officers in Baton Rouge and wounded three others....
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- The Latest on the shooting of law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge (all times local):...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Three Baton Rouge law enforcement officers were killed and three others wounded Sunday, less than two weeks after a black man was shot and killed by police here in a confrontation that sparked nightly protests across the city that reverberated nationwide....
(Vatican Radio) During his Angelus on Sunday, Pope Francis recalled the terrible events of last Thursday when a man ploughed a lorry into crowds of people celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, France, killing over 80 and injuring many others.Listen to Lydia O'Kane's full report Remembering the loss of innocent lives, many of whom were children, the Pope said, “the pain of the massacre is alive in our hearts”. “I am close to each family and the entire French nation which is in mourning.” He added, “may God, the good Father, welcome all the victims into his peace, support the injured and comfort their families. May he dissolve every project of terror and death, so that man no longer attempts to spill his brother's blood.”
