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
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 …
Read More »With this rigatoni, I thee wed: The 1st Pastafarian wedding
AKAROA, New Zealand (AP) – The wedding rings were made of pasta, the ceremony was held on a pirate boat, and when it came time for the kiss, the bride and groom slurped up either end of a noodle until their lips met. New Zealand on Saturday hosted the world’s …
Read More »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 …
Read More »Rule targets prosecutors who don’t reveal innocence evidence
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – As four men sat in prison for a murder they didn’t commit, records show that state investigators sent proof of their innocence to a North Carolina prosecutor, but he never revealed it to the convicted men. He didn’t have to. Nothing in North Carolina’s legal standards …
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