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Pope holds Easter candle at basilica vigil

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 10:50
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI, carrying a tall, lit candle, ushered in Christianity's most joyous celebration with an Easter vigil service Saturday night, but voiced fears that mankind is groping in darkness, unable to distinguish good from evil....

Pope holds Easter candle at basilica vigil

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 10:50
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI, carrying a tall, lit candle, ushered in Christianity's most joyous celebration with an Easter vigil service Saturday night, but voiced fears that mankind is groping in darkness, unable to distinguish good from evil....

UN monitors shot at trying to reach massacre site

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 10:50
BEIRUT (AP) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said unarmed U.N. monitors came under fire Thursday as they tried to reach the scene of the latest Syrian mass killing. Activists said government forces killed nearly 80 people, including women and children who were shot, hacked to death and burned in their homes....

Colombia: 6 soldiers, 3 rebels die in fighting

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 10:50
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Colombia's military says six of its soldiers have been killed in an attack that it blames on the country's main rebel movement, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia....

Colombia: 6 soldiers, 3 rebels die in fighting

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 10:50
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Colombia's military says six of its soldiers have been killed in an attack that it blames on the country's main rebel movement, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia....

Peru: Hose gets food, drink to 9 trapped miners

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 10:50
LIMA, Peru (AP) -- Peruvian authorities say nine trapped miners are being supplied with sports drinks, soup and food while police, firefighters and other workers work to free them....

Peru: Hose gets food, drink to 9 trapped miners

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 10:50
LIMA, Peru (AP) -- Peruvian authorities say nine trapped miners are being supplied with sports drinks, soup and food while police, firefighters and other workers work to free them....

Peru: Hose gets food, drink to 9 trapped miners

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 10:50
LIMA, Peru (AP) -- Peruvian authorities say nine trapped miners are being supplied with sports drinks, soup and food while police, firefighters and other workers work to free them....

Fang Lizhi, who inspired Chinese dissidents, dies

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 10:50
BEIJING (AP) -- Fang Lizhi, one of China's best-known dissidents whose speeches inspired student protesters throughout the 1980s, has died in the United States, where he fled after China's 1989 military crackdown on the pro-democracy movement. He was 76....

Fang Lizhi, who inspired Chinese dissidents, dies

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 10:50
BEIJING (AP) -- Fang Lizhi, one of China's best-known dissidents whose speeches inspired student protesters throughout the 1980s, has died in the United States, where he fled after China's 1989 military crackdown on the pro-democracy movement. He was 76....

Iraq: Video appears to show top Saddam deputy

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 10:50
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A video posted online Saturday purports to show Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the highest ranking member of Saddam Hussein's ousted regime still at large, lashing out against Iraq's Shiite-led government....

Mali's parliamentary head returns from exile

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 10:50
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Mali's parliamentary head, who was forced into exile after last month's coup, returned Saturday to this nation in crisis, marking the first step in Mali's path back to constitutional rule....

Mali's parliamentary head returns from exile

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 10:50
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Mali's parliamentary head, who was forced into exile after last month's coup, returned Saturday to this nation in crisis, marking the first step in Mali's path back to constitutional rule....

Pope holds Easter candle at basilica vigil

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 10:50
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI, carrying a tall, lit candle, ushered in Christianity's most joyous celebration with an Easter vigil service Saturday night, but voiced fears that mankind is groping in darkness, unable to distinguish good from evil....

Pope holds Easter candle at basilica vigil

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 10:50
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI, carrying a tall, lit candle, ushered in Christianity's most joyous celebration with an Easter vigil service Saturday night, but voiced fears that mankind is groping in darkness, unable to distinguish good from evil....

Yemen: Ex-president's loyalists attack airport

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 10:50
SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Loyalists of former Yemeni leader Ali Abdullah Saleh seized the country's main airport Saturday as tanks and armored vehicles occupied the tarmac and forced authorities to cancel flights, a day after a military shake-up in which key commanders were fired....

Christians in Holy Land pray on Easter Saturday

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 10:50
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Thousands of Christians gathered near Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulcher for Easter Saturday and marched in processions brimming with tradition, taking turns to pray in the site where they believe Jesus was slain and buried....

Christians in Holy Land pray on Easter Saturday

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 10:50
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Thousands of Christians gathered near Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulcher for Easter Saturday and marched in processions brimming with tradition, taking turns to pray in the site where they believe Jesus was slain and buried....

Christians in Holy Land pray on Easter Saturday

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-14 10:50
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Thousands of Christians gathered near Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulcher for Easter Saturday and marched in processions brimming with tradition, taking turns to pray in the site where they believe Jesus was slain and buried....
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