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Vittorio Hernandez | Jan 17, 2015 04:30 AM EST
Despite Typhoon Amang, Pope Francis celebrated Mass on Saturday morning at the Tacloban Airport, wearing a yellow raincoat - just like the estimated 1 million residents who attended the Eucharistic celebration - to protect him from the rain. read more
David Curry | Jan 17, 2015 06:06 AM EST
A brief but potentially disastrous hack hit the Twitter accounts of news agencies The New York Post and UPI, posting misinformation about China's military firing at the USS George Washington. read more
Raymond Legaspi | Jan 16, 2015 08:40 PM EST
French authorities are still on the fence about the fate of the bodies of the three triggermen in the deadly Paris attacks - Saïd Kouachi, his brother Chérif Kouachi and Amedy Coulibaly. read more
Desiree Sison | Jan 16, 2015 06:23 AM EST
China has created armed civilian militias to help protect villagers living near the border with North Korea from violent crimes reportedly being perpetrated by North Korean soldiers read more
Kat De Guzman | Jan 16, 2015 12:59 PM EST
U.S. President Barack Obama recently launched another set of proposals that could possibly benefit millions of Americans, as he pushed for paid sick and family leave for working parents, and to private-sector employees for the second time. read more
Kat De Guzman | Jan 16, 2015 02:13 AM EST
The extremist group Boko Haram has taken more lives in recent weeks as they scoured more villages in Nigeria, prompting the international community to plan a multinational military intervention in the hopes of stopping the insurgency in the country. read more
Bianca Ortega | Jan 16, 2015 12:58 AM EST
French President Francois Hollande on Thursday gave a statement assuring Muslims that France respects both their community and their religion but said the country remains firm on its commitment to free speech. read more
Raymond Legaspi | Jan 15, 2015 03:52 PM EST
The younger of the two brothers who carried out the terrorist attacks in and around Paris - not the older, as initially believed - was the aggressor, U.S. counter terrorism officials revealed on Wednesday. read more
Raymond Legaspi | Jan 15, 2015 04:29 PM EST
A woman in the middle of giving birth was not spared from a Boko Haram attack in a village in northeastern Nigeria. read more
Raymond Legaspi | Jan 15, 2015 03:58 PM EST
People should not commit murder in the name of religion but neither should they insult another's faith, Pope Francis said while on board a flight from Sri Lanka to the Philippines on Thursday. read more
Vittorio Hernandez | Jan 15, 2015 08:38 AM EST
While the House voted on Wednesday to kill major provisions of the immigration policy of U.S. President Barack Obama that would provide legal protection to millions of immigrants, 26 Republicans crossed party lines and rejected the amendment that would reverse the president's 2012 executive action. read more
Vittorio Hernandez | Jan 15, 2015 12:00 AM EST
House Democratic Minority Leader David Toscano said on Wednesday that the U.S. Congress is considering all its options to boot out returning Virginia representative Joseph Morrissey who has been convicted for sex offences involving minors. read more
Vittorio Hernandez | Jan 14, 2015 11:46 PM EST
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukasevich said on Wednesday that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) video showing two alleged Russian spies gunned to death by a boy seems to be a staged event designed to provoke Moscow. read more
Raymond Legaspi | Jan 14, 2015 09:32 AM EST
Republican Texas Congressman Randy Weber backtracks from his harsh criticism of President Barack Obama's absence from a unity march in Paris attended by world leaders, saying a Hitler comparison may have gone overboard. read more
Raymond Legaspi | Jan 14, 2015 09:28 AM EST
Pope Francis on Wednesday added to the Catholic Church's roster of saints a missionary who preached in Sri Lanka, Joseph Vaz, at a mass celebrated in the island nation's capital, Colombo. read more
Due to the coronavirus, people around the world have canceled their travel plans. Governments and health officials have warned the public to avoid boarding cruise ships and long flights. read more
