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DALLAS (AP) -- The gunman who killed five police officers at a protest march trained at a private self-defense school in Texas, a school official said Saturday at the academy that teaches firearm tactics, including "shooting on the move," a maneuver in which an attacker fires and changes position before firing again....
(Vatican Radio) The Peace Process in Colombia, is being challenged and threatened by small diehard factions of guerrillas, who are steadfastly refusing to disarm. James Blears reports about a political fly in an ointment of balm to a wound which has festered in the heart of a nation for more than half a century.Listen: The Leadership of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia- The FARC is warning two diehard units in a remote region in the East of the country to fall in line, or to be cut adrift if they don`t lay down their arms, in accordance with the Peace settlement, which has taken more than three years to negotiate. One of its most important provisions is that the FARC disarm and start the process of settling into civilian life, evolving into a political party. But two of its units in the remote jungle, near to the Border with Brazil, refuse to disarm. One of them, calling itself The First Front Armando Rios, has announced just this,...
(Vatican Radio) The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR has condemned Hungary for sending thousands of additional security forces to its southern border with Serbia who are pushing back migrants fleeing war and poverty. An increasing number of people are already stuck in what the U.N. calls dire conditions at the Serbia-Hungary border as Hungary blocked their entry. Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: Hungary's government says as many as 10,000 police and soldiers are trying to completely seal the southern border with Serbia. New measures backed by Hungary's anti-migration Prime Minister Viktor Orbán allow Hungarian forces to return to Serbia all migrants regardless of their background if they are detained within 8 kilometers from the border. The prime minister's chief of staff János Lázár defended these policies. Stopping illegal migration is a key issue for Hungary. Not just because by doing so we are protecting Europe ...
Vatican City, Jul 9, 2016 / 11:58 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A new set of reforms further clarifying the roles of Vatican financial offices was announced July 9, implementing changes set in motion by Pope Francis’ 2014 edict, “Fidelis dispensator et prudens.”This new directive, entitled “Temporal goods,” affirms that the role of the Church's assets center around “divine worship, the just support for the clergy, apostolate, and works of charity, especially for the needy.”“The Church, therefore, feels the responsibility to pay maximum attention to the administration of their economic resources is always at the service of these purposes,” the document said.The motu proprio, signed July 4, ensures “the clear and unequivocal distinction between control and vigilance, on the one hand, and administration of goods, on the other,” according to a July 9 statement by the Holy See press office.“Therefore, the Motu Proprio spe...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Islamic State group's Twitter traffic has plunged 45 percent in the past two years, the Obama administration says, as the U.S. and its allies have countered messages of jihadi glorification with a flood of online images and statements about suffering and enslavement at the hands of the extremist organization....
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- NATO allies agreed Saturday to provide increased military support to countries in the Middle East and North Africa that are targets of Islamic extremism, including using NATO surveillance planes in the fight against the Islamic State group....
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- President Barack Obama on Saturday rejected any notion that the past week's stunning violence signals a return to racial brutality of a dark past, saying that as painful as the killings of police and black men were, "America is not as divided as some have suggested."...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- A suburban Minnesota police officer who killed a black driver reacted to the man's gun, not his race, his attorney said Saturday, giving the most detailed account so far of why the officer drew his own weapon....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Since the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement three years ago, many white Americans have wrestled with how to respond. Some chose racist-tinged ridicule. Others, by word or deed, sought to show solidarity as blacks protested the deaths of fellow blacks in encounters with police. Still others, untouched personally, watched from a distance in silence....
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- When Philando Castile saw the flashing lights in his rearview mirror the night he got shot, it wasn't unusual. He had been pulled over at least 52 times in recent years in and around the Twin Cities and given citations for minor offenses including speeding, driving without a muffler and not wearing a seat belt....