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CINCINNATI (AP) -- The Latest on the killing of a gorilla after a child fell into its enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo (all times local):...
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- Residents of some rural southeast Texas counties braced for more flooding on Monday along a river that is expected to crest at a record level just two years after it had run dry in places because of drought....
(Vatican Radio) Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, the Archbishop of Manila and President of Caritas Internationalis, gave an address on Monday evening at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Oganization (FAO). The full text is below [Casella di testo: Page 1 of 4] The Problem of Food Loss: views from the Catholic Social Teaching and solutions from CaritasCardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, President of Caritas InternationalisDistinguished Director General, Ambassadors, Ladies and Gentlemen, dear friendsIt is a privilege to speak today to such a qualified audience. I am grateful to the FAO for allowing me to take part in this panel, what gives me also the great pleasure to meet personally the Director-General, Prof. José Graziano da Silva. Caritas Internationalis and FAO have an established institutional relation, and my presence here today is a tangible element of this cooperationMy intervention aims at presenting a new way to frame the problem of food loss, suggesting sol...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Anthropologist Susan Phillips had spent a career examining the graffiti that covers urban walls, bridges and freeway overpasses....
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- Tropical Depression Bonnie and its heavy rains dissipated over South Carolina on Monday, as a wet Memorial Day holiday weekend comes to an end in the area....
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) -- About 24 hours after he was kidnapped, Mexican soccer star Alan Pulido found himself alone with one of his captors and saw his chance. He wrestled away the man's pistol and his cellphone and dialed Mexico's emergency number....
CINCINNATI (AP) -- Dozens of animal rights advocates and others held a Memorial Day vigil at the Cincinnati Zoo in remembrance of a gorilla that was fatally shot to protect a 4-year-old boy who entered its exhibit....
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- Former Chad dictator Hissene Habre was found guilty Monday of crimes against humanity, war crimes, torture and sex crimes during his rule and he was sentenced to life in prison, ending a trial more than 15 years in the making....
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) -- Authorities say they have rescued another 40 people from floodwaters in a Texas county near Houston even though rain has stopped in most of the state....
(Vatican Radio) At least 700 forced migrants may have died at sea this past week in the crossing from Libya to Italy.About 14,000 have been rescued since last Monday, and there have been at least three confirmed instances of boats sinking. But the number of dead can only be estimated based on survivor testimony, which is still being collected.Migrants interviewed over the weekend in the Sicilian port of Pozzallo told of a large fishing boat that overturned and sank on Thursday with many women and children on board.The forced migrants - fleeing wars, persecution and poverty - often do not know how to swim and do not have life jackets. They pay hundreds or thousands of dollars to make the crossing from Libya to Italy which is proving to be the most dangerous border passage for migrants in the world.Jesuit Father Tom Smolich, Director of Jesuit Refugee Service International, told Vatican Radio’s Linda Bordoni that the fact that people are drowning at sea as they att...
