Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 13:24:12 +0000
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis says he may add a South Sudan leg onto his Africa trip in September if conditions there are “mature.”
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 09:59:09 +0000
BEIJING – President Donald Trump’s latest tariff hike on Chinese goods took effect Friday and Beijing said it would retaliate, escalating a battle over China’s technology ambitions and other trade tensions.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 00:04:33 +0000
An ever-smaller number of veterans will stand on Normandy’s shores on June 6 for D-Day’s 75th anniversary. Many will salute fallen comrades from their wheelchairs. As each year passes, more firsthand history is lost.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 09 May 2019 22:53:53 +0000
Anna Sorokin, the German con artist who passed herself off as a wealthy heiress to swindle banks, hotels, and even close friends as she lived out a high-society, Instagram-ready fantasy in New York, was sentenced Thursday to four to 12 years in prison.
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 09 May 2019 22:18:49 +0000
More than a dozen states have moved to declare pornography a public health crisis, raising concerns among some experts who said the label goes too far and carries its own risks.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 09 May 2019 22:07:05 +0000
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw a “long-range strike” drill, the state news agency reported Friday, hours after South Korea said the weapons fired were short-range missiles.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Thu, 09 May 2019 14:19:13 +0000
BEIJING – The tariff war between Washington and Beijing poses one of the biggest challenges yet for Chinese President Xi Jinping, potentially exposing his political vulnerabilities at a time when the Chinese economy is already slowing.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 09 May 2019 12:02:34 +0000
The fired BBC Radio 5 Live disc jockey said the royal baby tweet was an “enormous mistake.” It has since been deleted.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 09 May 2019 11:44:43 +0000
Russian President Vladimir Putin has told the annual military Victory Day parade in Red Square that the country will continue to strengthen its armed forces.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 09 May 2019 11:31:38 +0000
North Korea on Thursday fired two suspected short-range missiles from the country’s western area, South Korea’s military said.
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