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MADRID (AP) -- As matadors face half-ton bulls this month during Madrid's most important annual series of bullfights and Pamplona gears up for its chaotic July bull runs down cobblestoned streets, tensions are building between anti-bullfighting forces and the traditions' defenders, who have launched Spain's first pro-bullfight lobbying group....
MIAMI (AP) -- Bidding in an online auction for the pistol former neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman used to kill Trayvon Martin appeared to have been hijacked by fake accounts posting astronomically high bids....
(Vatican Radio) The Institute for Religious Works (IOR), commonly known as the Vatican Bank, released its Annual Report with a press release on Thursday showing it made a net profit of 16.1 million Euros in 2015. Speaking in an interview with Vatican media, the IOR’s Director General Gian Franco Mammì, said it’s now "impossible to launder money" there and pledged to continue the institute’s drive for reform, renewal and total transparency. As part as that reorganization drive, the Annual Report said a total of 4935 accounts held at the IOR were closed down last year and all “suspicious” accounts have been reported to the competent authorities. Mammì said the 2015 profits have been given to the Cardinals' Commission that supervises the IOR's activities and the Commission will "make sure" they are available for Pope Francis and his pastoral mission. In a roundtable interview with Vatican R...
(Vatican Radio) The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah said on Friday that its commander Mustafa Badreddine has been killed in an attack in Syria. He was one of Hezbollah’s highest ranking officials and well known on the international radar. The US said, since 2011 he was responsible for the militant group’s military operations in Syria and was one of five Hezbollah members indicted by the U.N.-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon in the 2005 killing of former Lebanese PM Rafik al-Hariri.It’s reported he was killed in an Israeli air strike near Damascus airport although Israel has yet to comment on the claim.Badreddine, was the a brother-in-law of the late Hezbollah military commander, Imad Moughniyah.His militant role can be traced back to the early 1980’s. He was sentenced to death in Kuwait for his role in bomb attacks there in 1983 but escaped from prison in 1990 and for years, organized military operations against Israel from Lebanon and overs...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Susannah Mushatt Jones, the world's oldest person, has died in New York at age 116....
ISKANDARIYAH, Iraq (AP) -- Salam Hussein's father was once his soccer coach. Now he's his physical therapist, hoping that his son will one day be able to walk again....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group said Friday that its top military commander who was supervising its military operations in Syria, Mustafa Badreddine, was killed in an explosion in Damascus, a major blow to the Shiite group which has played a significant role in the conflict next door....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pressure is mounting on Bernie Sanders to end his campaign for president, with Democratic Party leaders raising alarms that his continued presence in the race is undermining efforts to beat presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump this fall....
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) -- The new acting president is calling for unity in Brazil, while the leader just suspended by the Senate is vowing to fight what she calls a coup, underscoring the deep political polarization in Latin America's most populous nation....
SHANGHAI (AP) -- When an influential anti-counterfeiting group allowed Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba to join its ranks in April, the group said it was a collaborative move that would help stem the sale of fake goods for top companies such as Apple, Nike and Procter & Gamble....
