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PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- In any given week, teams of high-priced lawyers fan out across the country to defend Bill Cosby amid a cascade of sexual assault allegations, defamation claims and insurance disputes....
MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) -- Little more than names and incident numbers appear on a Long Island medical examiner's list of nine developmentally disabled people who died in state care since 2013, but this much is known for sure: All the deaths came under a cloud of abuse or neglect allegations, and none resulted in criminal charges....
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- The mob didn't know at first what Roberto Bernal had done, but he was running and that was enough....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House has voted to ban the display of the Confederate flag on flagpoles at Veterans Administration cemeteries....
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- The first Chibok teenager to escape from Boko Haram's Sambisa Forest stronghold was flown to Abuja on Thursday and met with Nigeria's president, even as her freedom adds pressure on the government to do more to rescue 218 other missing girls....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Securities and Exchange Commission has sued professional golfer Phil Mickelson, saying he profited from an insider trading scheme conducted by a former corporate director and a professional gambler....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Two-thirds of Americans would have difficulty coming up with the money to cover a $1,000 emergency, according to an exclusive poll released Thursday, a signal that despite years of recovery from the Great Recession, Americans' financial conditions remain precarious as ever....
CAIRO (AP) -- An EgyptAir jetliner bound from Paris to Cairo with 66 people aboard crashed in the Mediterranean Sea early Thursday after a mysterious series of extremely abrupt turns, authorities said, and Egypt's aviation minister said it may have been a terrorist attack....
Pope Francis receives Ambassadors from Estonia, Malawi, Namibia, the Seychelles, Thailand and Zambia
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis received Ambassadors from Estonia, Malawi, Namibia, the Seychelles, Thailand and Zambia, who together presented their Letters of Credence on Thursday. Below, please find the full text of the remarks the Holy Father prepared for the occasion, in their official English translation.**************************************Your Excellencies,I am pleased to receive you on the occasion of the presentation of the Letters by which you are accredited as Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassadors of your countries to the Holy See: Estonia, Malawi, Namibia, the Seychelles, Thailand and Zambia. I thank you for the greetings you conveyed to me on behalf of your respective Heads of State and, in return, I would ask you to assure them of my prayers and best wishes. I ask God to grant peace and prosperity to all your fellow citizens.Your presence here today is a poignant reminder that, though our nationalities, cultures and religious beliefs may be di...
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Thursday received Letters of Credence from the Ambassadors to the Holy See from Estonia, Malawi, Namibia, the Seychelles, Thailand and Zambia.In remarks prepared for the occasion and delivered Thursday morning in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican, Pope Francis reflected with Ambassadors Väino Reinart of Estonia, Michael Barth Kamphambe Nkhoma of Malawi, Andreas B. D. Guibeb of Namibia, Thomas Selby Pillay of the Seychelles, Nopadol Gunavibool of Thailand, and Muyeba Shichapwa Chikonde of Zambia, on the concrete reminder of our common humanity that diplomatic service provides, and upon mindfulness of which effective diplomatic activity depends.Click below to hear our report “This service,” said Pope Francis, “has taken on a particular urgency, as so many in our world are suffering conflicts and war, forced migration and displacement, and the uncertainty born of economi...
