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Release of encyclical reveals pope’s deep dive into climate science

YoopyaJun 18, 2015July 2, 20230

VATICAN CITY — He warns of synthetic agrotoxins harming birds and insects and bioaccumulation from industrial waste. He calls for renewable fuel subsidies and maximum

Top two FIFA officials hire lawyers as Swiss probe bank transactions

YoopyaJun 18, 2015July 2, 20230

FIFA’s embattled president, Sepp Blatter, and his second-in-command have hired high-powered lawyers to represent them, two sources said as a corruption probe engulfs soccer’s global

S. Africa: Actress Angelina Jolie joins African Union summit

YoopyaJun 18, 2015July 2, 20230

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Appearing at an African Union summit in South Africa on Friday, actress Angelina Jolie, who is also a United Nations special envoy

World Muslim body lends support to Qatar over 2022 World Cup

YoopyaJun 18, 2015July 2, 20230

The world’s largest Muslim organization has thrown its weight behind Qatar’s hosting of the 2022 World Cup, hitting back at Western criticism of the Gulf

As Vladimir Putin Talks More Missiles and Might, Cost Tells Another Story

YoopyaJun 18, 2015July 2, 20230

KUBINKA, Russia — They call it Russia’s military Disneyland, and the underlying idea that Russia will soon field a high-tech, modernized army was indeed part

Obama v. LBJ on display at congressional picnic

YoopyaJun 18, 2015July 1, 20230

As President Barack Obama struggled with his own party over trade — and failed — Washington kicked off a new round of a favorite game,

Egypt’s Morsy: Death sentence upheld; life term in second case

YoopyaJun 17, 2015July 1, 20230

Cairo (CNN)A court in Egypt upheld a death sentence Tuesday against former President Mohamed Morsy. Morsy, 63, was sentenced to death last month for his

AU head Mugabe says international court unwelcome in Africa

YoopyaJun 16, 2015July 1, 20230

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Zimbabwean leader and African Union chairman Robert Mugabe on Tuesday harshly criticized the International Criminal Court after Sudan’s president dodged an international

Egypt court confirms ousted President Morsi’s death sentence

YoopyaJun 16, 2015July 1, 20230

CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court on Tuesday confirmed the death sentence of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi over the mass 2011 prison break that

Whodunit playing out as Vatican reels from encyclical leak

YoopyaJun 16, 2015July 1, 20230

VATICAN CITY (AP) — There’s something of a whodunit going on in the Vatican to discover who leaked Pope Francis environment encyclical to an Italian newsweekly,