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Mexicans seeking hope after Pope visit, Mass

Posted: 25 Mar 2012 05:18 PM PDT


SILAO, Mexico -- Pope Benedict XVI urged Mexicans to wield their faith against poverty and drug violence, telling hundreds of thousands of worshippers in an open-air Mass on Sunday that they would find hope if they purify their hearts.
Benedict de ...

Islamists hold sway on Egyptian panel crafting constitution

Posted: 25 Mar 2012 05:17 PM PDT


CAIRO -- Egypt's Islamists have won a sizable majority on a 100-member panel tasked with drafting a new constitution, according to a list of names published Sunday by the country's official news agency. The list reinforces fears by secular and libe ...

U.S. compensates Afghans for deaths

Posted: 25 Mar 2012 05:19 PM PDT


KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- The U.S. paid $50,000 in compensation for each villager killed and $11,000 for each person wounded in a shooting rampage allegedly carried out by a rogue American soldier in southern Afghanistan, Afghan officials said Sunda ...

Brazil unearths old slave relics, painful history

Posted: 25 Mar 2012 05:17 PM PDT


RIO DE JANEIRO -- In a rundown part of Rio de Janeiro's harbor district, archaeologists are digging up fragments of a history many Brazilians would rather ignore.
Up to a million men and women forced into bondage in Africa emerged from the bellies ...

Barack Obama urges North Korea to change its ways

Posted: 25 Mar 2012 05:18 PM PDT


SEOUL, South Korea -- Trying to muscle North Korea toward peace over provocation, President Barack Obama is broadening his squeeze play from the heart of this tensely divided peninsula, pressuring China to show more influence and warning North Kore ...

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