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ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Over the months, Hillary Clinton misstated key facts about her use of private email and her own server for her work as secretary of state, the department's inspector general reported this week....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump's best ally in winning over skeptical Republicans is turning out to be Hillary Clinton....
ATLANTA (AP) -- Travelers who were dreading long airport security lines Friday ahead of the Memorial Day weekend instead reported moving quickly through checkpoints after authorities opened extra screening lanes and used bomb-sniffing dogs to give some passengers a break from removing their shoes....
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Mohamed Roble was weeks shy of his 11th birthday when the school bus he was on plummeted more than 30 feet as the bridge beneath gave way....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis has sent his condolences to the Bishop of Bergamo, Italy for the death of Cardinal Loris Francesco Capovilla, the former private secretary of Pope John XXIII. Upon hearing of the Cardinal’s passing 26 May 2016 at the age of 100, Pope Francis wrote in a telegram to Bishop Francesco Beschi, in whose diocese Cardinal Capovilla lived the last years of his life: “I think with affection of this dear brother who in his long and fruitful existence gave witness to the Gospel with joy and obediently served the Church, first in the diocese of Venice, then with attentive affection at the side of Pope John XXIII, of whose memory he was the zealous custodian and expert interpreter. In his episcopal ministry, especially in Chieti-Vasto and Loreto (Italy), he was always a pastor totally dedicated to the wellbeing of all priests and the faithful …with a solid fidelity to the teachings of the Second Vatican Council.”Pope Franci...
(Vaticna Radio) Vatican Weekend for Saturday 28th of May, 2016 features a report on the weekly general audience of Pope Francis with pilgrims from across the world. This is followed by Linda Bordoni’s interviews relating to the World Humanitarian Summit which include the Vatican’s Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Archbishop Silvano Tommasi, the Holy See’s former envoy to the United Nations and Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle President of Caritas Internationalis. The last segment in the programme relates to Blessed Paul VI and the world of art.Listen to a programme presented and produced by Veronica Scarisbrick: &nb...
(Vatican Radio) Vatican Weekend Sunday 29th of May. 2016 features our weeklyreflection on the Sunday gospel presented this week by Monsignor Peter Verity of the Pontifical Beda College here in Rome, a bird’s eye view of the Vatican week with EWTN Bureau chief here in Rome Joan Lewis and a musical meditation to mark the Feast of Corpus Christi. A programme presented and produced by Veronica Scarisbrick:
Catholic activists in Bangladesh have welcomed a May 24 Supreme Court ruling that effectively strips police of sweeping powers that allow them to make arbitrary arrests on suspicion a crime might take place, prolong the detention of suspects and torture detainees in custody. These powers were often abused and led to the deaths of a number of detainees while in custody, rights groups said. A four-judge bench headed by Chief Justice S.K. Sinha upheld an April 7, 2003, High Court ruling directing the government to amend several controversial provisions in an 1898 law introduced by the British, which provided police discretionary powers relating to the arrest and detention of suspects. These included allowing police to arrest someone who they thought might commit a crime in the future.The judges agreed with rights groups that petitioned the court that the provisions allowing these powers were in conflict with the constitution.The Supreme Court also ordered the quick enforce...
(Vatican Radio) Around 50,000 civilians trapped in the Iraqi city of Fallujah face starvation as government forces continue their assault to retake it from the so-called Islamic State militants. The grim assessment came from the Norwegian Refugee Council, an NGO that has been delivering aid to those civilians who managed to escape from the outlying areas of Fallujah before the assault commenced. Nasr Muflahi, the Norwegian Refugee Council’s country director in Iraq, spoke to Susy Hodges about the “dire" situation facing Fallujah’s trapped civilians.Listen to the interview with Nasr Muflahi of the Norweign Refugee Council: The UN says only around 800 people have been able to flee Fallujah since Iraqi government forces launched a major offensive to retake the city. So-called Islamic State militants who control the city have imposed a curfew and its residents have been forbidden from leaving their homes. A proposal for humanitarian corr...
Nearly 1,000 people were killed in attacks on health centres worldwide over the past two years, almost 40 percent of them in Syria, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday in its first report on the growing scourge. The United Nations agency documented 594 attacks resulting in 959 deaths and 1,561 injuries in 19 countries with emergencies between January 2014 and December 2015. Syria, torn by civil war since 2011, had the most attacks on hospitals, ambulances, patients and medical workers, accounting for 352 deaths. The Palestinian territories of Gaza and the West Bank, as well as Iraq, Pakistan and Libya, followed. Some 62 percent of all attacks were deemed intentional and many led to disruption of public health services. "This is not an isolated issue, it is not limited to war zones, it is not accidental. The majority of these are intentional," Dr. Bruce Aylward, executive director of WHO's emergency programme, told a news briefi...
