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COLOMBO, Jan 13, 2015 (AFP) - Pope Francis urged "respect for human rights" in Sri Lanka and called for the "pursuit of truth" after a long civil war as he arrived Tuesday on the island for the first papal visit in two decades.

MOSCOW, Jan 27, 2015 (AFP) - The UN said Monday that a rocket attack that killed 30 people in a city in eastern Ukraine deliberately targeted civilians, as Russian President Vladimir Putin spurned Western calls to rein in a pro-Moscow insurgency.

Tehran, YJC. Iran's Foreign Minister says the country will not compromise its technical advancements and the West would better consider that.

MOSCOW -- Russian President Vladimir Putin received North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's special envoy, a high-ranking member of the ruling Workers' Party, Choe Ryong Hae, Russian president's press secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday

BRISBANE, Australia, Nov 12, 2014 (AFP) - Pope Francis has called on G20 leaders not to forget the poor, saying to do so would be "regrettable" as the heads of the world's most powerful economies prepare to meet in Australia.

BERLIN, January 30 /TASS/. Eckhard Cordes, president of Committee for Eastern European Economic Relations, warns against imposing new sanctions on Russia and calls for keeping channels for dialogue with Moscow open in an interview with the German magazine Spiegel.

BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil, Oct 26, 2014 (AFP) - Aecio Neves, the center-right challenger who suffered a narrow election defeat Sunday to Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, said he had called to congratulate her and urge unity after a divisive campaign.

In the US, a drug called Ivermectin is being touted as a way of treating or preventing for Covid-19, with celebrities such as podcast host Joe Rogan

Following the announcement from the New York governor that he will be leaving his post, and the revelations that Time's Up has been running cover for him, I'm left wondering why the same fate has not yet befallen the president. I was on a call with a reporter asking me for a comment on Cuomo as he resigned as New York governor. After I hung up

Isis-K - or to give it its more accurate name, Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) - is the regional affiliate of Isis (or so-called Islamic State)

13 August 2016 A recently emerged video shows Johnny Depp yelling and hurling objects towards Amber Heard in the middle of their kitchen. In the video, Heard confronts Depp over an undistinguished incident and asks if he drank a bottle of wine. Very suddenly, Depp then acts out of control and calls out Heard, attempting to show "crazy."

GOTV (Get Out the Vote) robocalls are a valuable campaign tool for candidates who are looking for a targeted and inexpensive method to remind voters about election information. Candidates or their spokespeople can send out pre-recorded messages via phone to thousands of voters simultaneously for a fraction of what it would cost to send campaign literature through the mail. Fact is, people do really forget to vote and the United States has one of the lowest voting rates in the free world hovering around 50% at a time when many European countries average well over 80% turnouts.