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Syria regime unleashes artillery barrage on Qusair
Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad shelled a strategic western town on Saturday in their heaviest barrage of a week-long battle to dislodge rebels from the opposition stronghold, activists said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 22 people including 18 rebels were killed and dozens ...
Female suicide bomber injures 18 in Russian region
A female suicide bomber blew herself up in the southern Russian region of Dagestan on Saturday injuring at least 18, including two children and five police officers, police said. The attacker was later identified as a widow of two Islamic radicals killed by security forces. It was the first suicide ...
Russian police detain activists, foes at gay rally
Gay-rights campaigners and their opponents clashed at an unsanctioned rally in the Russian capital on Saturday, but a heavy police presence in Ukraine kept the two sides apart at that country's first-ever gay pride march. Russian police said they arrested at least 30 gay rights campaigners and Christian Orthodox vigilantes ...
Tornado upon them, quick choices decided fate
They say you should never make a big decision when you're emotional. But what if there's barely a moment to think and a life-or-death choice looming? In those last horrifying minutes before the EF5 tornado struck, there was no time for reflection or regret. Just questions needing answers, right now. ...
Cabell County program tutors girls
Toi Wilson said some of the kids she hung out with at Huntington High School are in jail or have died. And the 26-year-old thinks her life could have turned out that way had it not been for Girls Place, a program for Cabell County middle and high school girls ...
2-child limit for Muslims in parts of Myanmar
Authorities in Myanmar's western Rakhine state have imposed a two-child limit for Muslim Rohingya families, a policy that does not apply to Buddhists in the area and comes amid accusations of ethnic cleansing in the aftermath of sectarian violence. Local officials said Saturday that the new measure would be applied ...
Priest who defied Mafia is beatified in Sicily
An Italian priest who stirred consciences with his anti-Mafia preaching and was gunned down by mobsters has been honored by the Vatican as a martyr. The Rev. Giuseppe "Pino" Puglisi was beatified in a ceremony Saturday in Palermo, the Sicilian capital where he worked in a mobster-infested, poor neighborhood. He ...
Churches wrestle with musical worship choices
On a recent Wednesday evening, the band began to play. Dean Brusnighan sat at a table in the back of the room at St. Andrew United Methodist Church in West Lafayette. At times he clapped. During other moments, he mouthed the lyrics intently. His eyes closed tightly as he sung ...
Dead Pa. baby's dad believes in 'divine healing'
After their 2-year-old son died of untreated pneumonia in 2009, faith-healing advocates Herbert and Catherine Schaible promised a judge they would not let another sick child go without medical care. But now they've lost an 8-month-old to what a prosecutor called "eerily similar" circumstances. And instead of another involuntary manslaughter ...
EDITORIALS OF THE TIMES
c.2013 New York Times News Service DECEPTION ON GUN BACKGROUND CHECKS A strange thing happened after 45 senators killed a bill to expand background checks for gun buyers five weeks ago: Many of those same senators suddenly discovered a profound affection for background checks. They had been for them all ...
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