
South Sudan ready to shock mighty U.S.
PARIS, France (AFP) — Olympic organizers might have played the wrong national anthem before South Sudan’s opening basketball game at the Paris Games, but the…
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PARIS, France (AFP) — Olympic organizers might have played the wrong national anthem before South Sudan’s opening basketball game at the Paris Games, but the…
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‘We are at a point where sustaining peace and security goes beyond political principles alone. New challenges, such as water crises, climate change impacts,…
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Pope Francis on Sunday kicked off global Christmas celebrations with a call for peace, as Israel's war on Hamas and Russia's invasion of Ukraine cast a shadow…
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Pope Francis on Saturday dismissed US bishop Joseph Strickland, a prominent conservative who had repeatedly criticized his papacy, following concerns over the…
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More than 20 people were killed Sunday after shells hit a market in a suburb of the Sudanese capital Khartoum, a committee of pro-democracy lawyers said in a…
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Pope Francis on Wednesday called for all efforts to be made to avoid a "humanitarian catastrophe" in Gaza, and expressed concern at risk of a…
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Pope Francis on Sunday called for "peace in Israel and in Palestine", saying "terrorism and war do not lead to a solution".
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Pope Francis opened the Synod of Bishops' general assembly in Rome on Wednesday, which in a historic first gives women a vote, after a vast global consultation…
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Pope Francis on Saturday led tens of thousands of worshippers packed into a stadium for a mass in Marseille after earlier striding into a politically loaded…
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Pope Francis met on Monday with the new Russian ambassador to the Vatican, who said they discussed the pontiff's efforts to bring peace to Ukraine.
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Newly appointed officer-in-charge of the Department of Migrant Workers, Hans Leo J. Cacdac, on Saturday said he will continue the programs that the late…
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A Swedish oil firm operated in Sudan with support from the military allegedly knew violence would affect civilians to bring the areas under control,…
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South Sudan and Japan both qualified for the Paris Olympics at the Basketball World Cup on Saturday as the tournament's highest-placed finishers from Africa…
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As the final whistle rang out, signalling South Sudan's defeat to Serbia and their elimination from the Basketball World Cup on Wednesday, diehard fan Deng…
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South Sudan — the world's youngest country — made history following an 86-69 victory over China in Group B preliminaries of the FIBA Basketball World Cup on…
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Pope Francis said on Sunday he would create 21 new cardinals from across the world at the end of September.
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"The war never ends. Tomorrow it will start again," remarks a character in "Goodbye Julia", the first Sudanese film ever selected for…
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Former pope Benedict XVI, who in 2013 became the first pontiff to resign as head of the Catholic Church since the Middle Ages, died on 31 December at age 95,…
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