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PARIS (AP) -- Veteran British director Ken Loach won his second Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival Sunday for "I, Daniel Blake" - a stark portrayal of a disabled man's struggle with the crushing benefits system in northern England....
CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt sent a submarine Sunday to join the hunt for the flight recorders from the EgyptAir jetliner that crashed in the Mediterranean and killed all 66 people aboard, while hundreds of Coptic Christian mourners filled a church in Cairo to pray for their relatives among the dead....
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the beginning of military operations to retake the Islamic State-held held city of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, in a televised address late Sunday night....
(Vatican Radio) Austrian police say a gunman fired shots early Sunday into a crowd attending an open air concert east of Austria'sborder with Liechtenstein, killing two people and wounding 11 others. The deadly incident came shortly before polls opened in apresidential election, that could produce Austria's first far-right head-of-state since World War II.Listen to Stefan Bos' report The overnight concert, organized by a local motorcycle club in the Austrian town of Nenzing in Vorarlberg province, ended in drama, witnesses said.Panic reportedly broke out as shots rang out, with many in the crowd running into nearby woods or onto a freeway near the venue, explainedFlorian Kasseroler, mayor of Nenzing.Police spokeswoman Susanne Dilp said the shooting was preceded by a loud argument between the 27-year-old gunman and a woman ina nearby parking lot. "This argument must have escalated. The man then grabbed a gun from his car, went to the concert venue, andstarted shoot...
VIENNA (AP) -- With direct ballots counted but a final result still outstanding, Sunday's elections for Austria's presidency were too close to call a winner between a right-wing politician and a challenger whose views stand in stark opposition to his rival's anti-immigrant and Eurosceptic message....
HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) -- The doctor got right down to business after Herbert Diamond bounded in. A single green form before her, she had some questions for the agile 88-year-old: about comas and ventilators, about feeding tubes and CPR, about intense and irreversible suffering....
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- Stagehand Kery Eller doesn't own any Bruce Springsteen albums, but he would smash them if he did....
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The killing of Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Akhtar Mansour in a U.S. drone strike was greeted Sunday by Kabul's political leadership as a game-changer in efforts to end the long insurgent war plaguing Afghanistan....
Vatican City, May 22, 2016 / 08:20 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The feast of the Holy Trinity is an invitation for us to commit to enriching our everyday relationships by promoting communion, consolation, and mercy, Pope Francis said during his weekly Sunday Angelus address."Our being created in the image and likeness of God-communion calls us to understand ourselves as beings-in-relation, and to live interpersonal relationships in solidarity and reciprocal love," the Pope told the pilgrims in St. Peter's Square."In this mission, we are sustained by the strength which the Holy Spirit gives us: this cures the flesh of humanity wounded by injustice, oppression, hate, and greed."Pope Francis centered his May 22 Angelus address on the feast of the Holy Trinity, which is celebrated on the first Sunday after Pentecost.Delivering his address from the papal palace to a packed square, the pontiff said the "'Divine Family' is not closed in on itself, but is open, ...
GENEVA (AP) -- Inside a non-descript concrete building in a Swiss parking lot lies evidence that could take down dozens of Olympic athletes....
