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A top banker tried to sway Pope Leo XIV on rare earth mining
4+ hour, 33+ min ago (646+ words) By DAVID BILLER and NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME " The head of Latin America's top development bank made a pitch to Pope Leo XIV this week in the face of the Vatican's call to divest from the mining industry: that…...
Passengers evacuated from hantavirus-stricken cruise ship begin flying home from Canary Islands
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1092+ words) By IAIN SULLIVAN and SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press A passenger waves to the Guardia Civil officers as they are disembarked from the hantavirus-stricken cruise ship MV Hondius at the port of Granadilla in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, on Sunday. A…...
A suspected outbreak of the rare hantavirus on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean kills 3 people
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (658+ words) By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press A rat wanders the subway tracks at Union Square in New York. CAPE TOWN, South Africa " A suspected outbreak of the rare hantavirus infection on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean killed three people,…...
Pope Leo XIV challenges Angola's leaders while delivering a message of encouragement for its people
2+ mon, 2+ day ago (945+ words) By NICOLE WINFIELD and GERALD IMRAY Associated Press Wellwishers welcome Pope Leo XIV as he arrives in Luanda, Angola, on Saturday, the sixth day of his 11-day pastoral visit to Africa. LUANDA, Angola " Pope Leo XIV challenged Angola's leaders to…...
Pope starts Africa tour in Algeria and calls for peace against Iran war's backdrop
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (931+ words) By NICOLE WINFIELD, AOMAR OUALI, and PAOLO SANTALUCIA Associated Press Pope Leo XIV is welcomed by Rector Mohamed Mamoun Al Qasimi upon his arrival at the Great Mosque in Algiers on Monday, on the first day of an 11-day apostolic…...
Diamonds & Coal: | Times Leader
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (705+ words) Diamonds to the many Jenkins Township residents who showed up at a Board of Supervisors public hearing in opposition to an undefined request for rezoning some mine-scarred land from residential to industrial. We gladly support the redevelopment of the countless…...
A week's worth of diamonds
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (610+ words) Diamonds to U. S. Marine Corps veteran and Mountain Top resident Mike Szklanny, who has planned Paws for a Cause, at the Garden Drive-In, Route 11, Hunlock Creek. The fundraiser, which will feature the screening of two family-friendly films starting at dusk on…...
East African governments turn up repression as the US turns away
11+ mon, 3+ week ago (525+ words) By Elizabeth Shackelford Guest Columnist I met Agather Atuhaire, a Ugandan human rights defender, in late May at the Oslo Freedom Forum, an event celebrating activists against authoritarianism. She was petite but powerful, bruised but not broken. Traveling to this…...