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China rocker quits state TV show over song choice

Courier Newsroom - January 19, 2014

BEIJING (AP) — A legendary Chinese rocker has refused to perform at a state broadcaster's variety show after being denied permission to sing a...

Anti-immigrant paper under fire for Kyenge agenda

Courier Newsroom - January 14, 2014

ROME (AP) - The newspaper of Italy's anti-immigrant Northern League party has come under fire for a new feature listing the daily whereabouts of...

Dozens arrested for being gay in north Nigeria

Courier Newsroom - January 14, 2014

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Police, working off a list of 168 suspects purportedly obtained through torture, are arresting dozens of gay men in Nigeria's...

Iran, 6 world powers agree to nuclear deal terms

Courier Newsroom - January 12, 2014

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran has agreed to limit uranium enrichment and to open its nuclear program to daily inspection by international experts starting...

Africa sees violent, deadly start to 2014

Courier Newsroom - January 12, 2014

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The death tolls are huge and the individual incidents gruesome. One estimate says nearly 10,000 people have been killed in...

Pope Francis names 19 new cardinals, focusing on the poor

Courier Newsroom - January 12, 2014

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis named his first batch of cardinals on Sunday, choosing 19 men from Asia, Africa, Latin America and elsewhere,...

French president angry over report on love life

Courier Newsroom - January 10, 2014

PARIS (AP) — French President Francois Hollande threatened legal action Friday over a magazine report saying he is having a secret affair with an...

Pope warns of fallout with poorly trained priests

Site Editor - January 10, 2014

VATICAN CITY (AP)— Pope Francis has warned that priests can become “little monsters” if they aren’t trained properly as seminarians, saying their time studying...

French minister: OK to ban comic’s show

Site Editor - January 9, 2014

PARIS (AP)—France’s interior minister said Monday that local officials have the right to ban shows on a national tour of a comic whose performances...

Filipinos jam capital for huge Catholic parade

Courier Newsroom - January 9, 2014

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Filipino Catholics began a raucous religious procession in Manila Thursday to honor a centuries-old black statue...

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