SRINAGAR, India — After trekking through streams and forests in Indian-administered Kashmir, Sheetal Kalthia and her vacationing family had just arrived in a remote, picturesque meadow when they heard gunshots. Kalthia, who was with her husband and their two children, said they “sensed that something was wrong and ran to hide behind the tent, but…
Most internal promotions don’t get this much attention. Most job selection processes don’t have centuries of history behind them — and few, if any, have a special name. But then, most job selections don’t end with a new pope. Catholic cardinals from around the world are converging on Vatican City in advance of the conclave that will elect…
An American pastor kidnapped at gunpoint last week in South Africa was rescued late Tuesday in a “high-intensity” shootout that left three people dead, local authorities said. Josh Sullivan, 35, was abducted by a group of armed men who raided his small congregation, a branch of Fellowship Baptist Church in the southern town of Motherwell, as he…
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — The first known lawsuit has been filed against the owners of a legendary nightclub whose roof collapsed and killed 231 people in the Dominican Republic. The family of one victim sued Jet Set nightclub owner Antonio Espaillat and his mother, Ana Grecia López, along with the Dominican government and the…
As day broke in Vatican City on Wednesday, thousands of mourners and worshippers gathered to watch the body and the open coffin of Pope Francis be moved from the more modest Chapel of Santa Marta to the grand halls of St. Peter’s Basilica. There, the body of the late pontiff will lie in state for…
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Diana and Rick Bellamy initially planned to take a Caribbean cruise out of Houston before heading to Laurel, Mississippi, to visit the home of one of their favorite HGTV shows, “Home Town.” The Calgary couple scrapped those plans and vacationed last month along Mexico’s Pacific coast instead, put off by U.S….
SHANGHAI — China’s national space agency said Thursday that it would let scientists from the U.S. and allied countries analyze rocks it retrieved from the moon, Beijing’s latest move to increase the international influence of its lunar exploration program. The announcement highlights how U.S.-China cooperation in some areas like space has not completely ended, despite tensions between the…
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Pope Francis has been called the “people’s” pope, a “maverick” pope and the “outsider” pope. He could also be called the fútbol pope. The soccer world has been paying tribute to the late pontiff from Argentina, who used his love of fútbol — the term for soccer in Spanish — as a way to connect with…
