Cardinal George Pell has full backing of Pope Francis after giving evidence
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Cardinal George Pell has arrived at a Rome hotel to answer more questions about what he knew of sexual abuse by pedophile priests and brothers in Victoria in the 1970s.

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U.S. Air Force vet one of first to face trial for Islamic State support
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A U.S. Air Force veteran betrayed his country and tried to become a fighter for the militant group Islamic State, federal prosecutors told a New York jury on Monday at the start of his criminal trial. Tairod Nathan Webster Pugh traveled to Turkey in an effort to join Islamic State after he “immersed himself” in […]

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Boston bomber's citizenship application raises questions
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Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev passed the US citizenship test just a few months before he helped carry out the Boston Marathon bombings that killed thee people and injured over 260, according to heavily redacted Department of Homeland Security documents obtained by the Boston Globe. The documents, released to the Globe under the Freedom of […]

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Supreme Court justice asks first question in decade
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Rarely are Supreme Court proceedings rocked by such astonishment. On Monday, Justice Clarence Thomas broke a years-long habit of silence by asking a question during a hearing on gun rights — his first in a decade. An arch-conservative who was ideologically aligned to his friend on the court, the late — and voluble — Justice […]

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Navy SEAL who rescued American hostage awarded Medal of Honor
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President Barack Obama on Monday awarded the country's highest honor for valor to Navy SEAL Edward Byers, who used his body to shield an American hostage from gunfire during a rescue operation in Afghanistan. Byers, 36, was the sixth Navy SEAL to receive the Medal of Honor and 11th living service member to be awarded […]

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2/29/16
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* Netanyahu: Israel ranked the eighth strongest country in the world  PM counters claims from Liberman and Lapid that Israel’s standing in the world is the worst its ever been by citing Wharton School survey.  * Iran elections: Reformists make gains in Assembly of Experts  Moderates and reformists have dealt another blow to Iran’s hardliners, winning all but one […]

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Fallait-il interdire Antichrist ?
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Le visa d'exploitation d'Antichrist, de Lars Von Trier, sorti en 2009 et alors interdit aux moins de 16 ans, a été annulé par la justice française ce 3 février 2016. Le film présenterait «un degré de représentation de la violence et de la sexualité qui …

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The Walking Dead's Glen Mazzara Explains Why He's Bringing the Antichrist to TV
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Glen Mazzara is best known for working on seasons two and three of The Walking Dead, but his latest project is all his own: He's the creator, executive producer, and showrunner of Damien, a new drama that imagines the Antichrist character from The Omen …

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Israel-Palestine: A new approach is needed
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Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), leads a Fatah party whose charter states quite unequivocally that Palestine, with the boundaries that it had during the British Mandate – that is, before the existence of Israel – is an …

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'Pandemic' Asks If Another Killer Disease Is Heading Our Way
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Citing a 2006 survey, Shah says, "the majority of … pandemic experts of all kinds, felt that a pandemic that would sicken a billion people, kill 165 million people and cost the global economy about $3 trillion would occur sometime in the next two …

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