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Pope brings 12 Syrian refugees to Italy in lesson for Europe

Pope brings 12 Syrian refugees to Italy in lesson for Europe

MORIA, Greece (AP) – Pope Francis gave Europe a concrete lesson Saturday in welcoming refugees by bringing 12 Syrian Muslims to Italy aboard his charter plane after an emotional visit to the Greek island of Lesbos, which has faced the brunt of Europe’s migration crisis. Refugees on the overwhelmed island …

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Grim new details of IS destruction in Syria’s Palmyra museum

Grim new details of IS destruction in Syria’s Palmyra museum

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) – The first foreign experts who visited the museum in Palmyra after it was taken over from Islamic State militants said they spent a week collecting fragments of priceless broken sculptures from the museum grounds and preparing them for transportation to Damascus in a rescue mission they …

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UK spy agency chief apologizes for old prejudice about gays

UK spy agency chief apologizes for old prejudice about gays

LONDON (AP) – The head of Britain’s digital espionage agency has apologized for the organization’s historic prejudice against homosexuals, saying it failed to learn from the treatment of World War II codebreaker Alan Turing. In a rare public speech, GCHQ chief Robert Hannigan told a gathering organized by the rights …

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