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Killer Christa Pike is to be executed within days but her defence say she's a victim too
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Nor'easter brings flooding as New York and New Jersey declare emergency
Tens of millions of people from Maine to Virginia are in the path of the powerful storm.
The Guardian
Pope Leo urges healing of ‘deep wounds’ before meeting child sexual abuse survivors in France
Catholic church must reckon with its ‘painful errors’, pontiff tells crowd in Lourdes during four-day tour The pope has called on the Catholic church to heal “deep wounds” and “painful errors”, before a meeting with survivors of child sexual abuse as he continues his four-day visit to France. Addressing a crowd in a large field near the Catholic shrine of Lourdes on Sunday, Pope Leo XIV called on the church to reckon with its past, without directly referencing sexual abuse scandals in France that affected at least 330,000 children over seven decades. Continue reading...
NPR
Amid changing dynamics in the Middle East, Turkey seeks to emerge as a leader
Turkey's attempts at expanding its Middle East footprint has put it in a position of power, coming head-to-head with Israel.
Al Jazeera
Floods and landslides kill at least 56 people in India, 12 in Nepal
Authorities report increasing death toll over three days as rivers rise above danger levels in parts of both countries.
NPR
Playing 'La Bamba' for an hour? Must be a Mexican fandango!
A 300-year-old Mexican musical tradition is finding new life around the world — one sweaty, joyous, all-night fandango at a time.
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Photos: These shepherds climb down a mountain to go to night school
Many thousands of boys and men in Lesotho take up the vital profession of herding but have to give up their education. A small network of schools on a shoestring budget is teaching them the ABCs.