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Son of St. Landry deputy arrested in fires at historically black churches
Mary's Baptist Church , Greater Union Baptist Church and Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, all more than 100 years old. The suspect is reportedly a 21-year-old man from St. Several black churches in the South were burned in 2015 shortly after the mass murder of nine people at the Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, though it is unclear if those fires... [Full Article...]
Indian bishop charged with repeatedly raping nun
The bishop who was released on bail 25 days later is now in Jalandhar. Bishop Franco Mulakkal was charged with rape, illegal confinement and intimidation, said Hari Sankar, a district police chief in the southern state of Kerala, India's Catholic heartland. [Full Article...]
Lawyers: Ex-Obama White House counsel Craig expects charges
Special Counsel Rober Mueller's core investigation has wrapped up, but the leads uncovered by his work have spun off to other parts of the Justice Department and are already generating new cases. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, the NY law firm that produced the report, settled with the Justice Department in January by promising to retroactively register as a foreign agent for Ukraine an... [Full Article...]
N. Korea, China open new border crossing
The Japanese sanctions on North Korea envisage ban on imports of North Korean goods as well as forbidden entry to Japanese ports for North Korean-registered ships and vessels that visited North Korean ports. Later, however, Tokyo strengthened the sanctions again after another North Korean nuclear test. President Donald Trump's second summit with Kim in Vietnam in February collapsed without... [Full Article...]
What happens next now the European Union have agreed delaying Brexit to Halloween?
British Prime Minister Theresa May said she would now keep working to get her withdrawal agreement approved by parliament to ensure an orderly split, saying her goal was to leave "as soon as possible". "But there is a long distance between us". So the more zealous Conservative Brexiters will flirt with the idea of evicting Theresa May immediately and replacing her with a prime minister who mig... [Full Article...]
U.S. wants U.N. to revoke credentials of Maduro's government
But the Maduro regime is not only a threat to the Venezuelan people; it is a threat to peace and security of the wider region as well. Venezuela's parliamentary speaker Juan Guaido declared himself interim president in January, claiming that his rival Nicolas Maduro had lost legitimacy . [Full Article...]
Chinese premier arrives in Brussels for China-EU leaders' meeting
In their work on a joint statement for the meeting on Tuesday, which will be the 21st such summit, European and Chinese diplomats found a compromise over wording on efforts to bolster the World Trade Organization by enabling it to tackle industrial subsidies, said the EU official. [Full Article...]
Angela Merkel backs ‘longer’ Brexit delay than Theresa May’s request
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has delivered a blow to UK PM Theresa May , after insisting a "longer" Brexit extension than the one asked for by the beleaguered Tory leader may be required. "We would have made a decision to weaken our institutions, by having a member who is permanently there but leaving". "We are prepared", he said. "I think still everything is possible". [Full Article...]