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Pope Francis’ fascination with the devil took on remarkable new twists Tuesday, with a well-known exorcist insisting Francis helped “liberate” a Mexican man possessed by four different demons despite the Vatican’s insistence that no such papal exorcism took place. The case concerns a 43-year-old ...
Kazuhiro Shiraishi, 66, is a guest-house manager in the Izu-kogen Highlands, a famous resort area on the Izu Peninsula of Shizuoka Prefecture. Looking out onto the Pacific Ocean, and just 90 minutes by train from Tokyo, Izu has a warm climate all year round ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
Guitarist Dustin Wong hesitates for a split second. It’s a pause that would go unnoticed during most other sets, but Wong has spent the last 40 minutes seemingly in a trance while playing guitar and looping the notes via an array of pedals in ...
Tim Duncan saves the day as the Spurs hold off the Grizzlies in overtime
President Barack Obama will hold his first summit with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, in California next month, with Sino-U.S. relations rattled by alleged cyberspying by Beijing and tensions in the Pacific. Obama will welcome Xi to the plush Sunnylands estate resort in Palm Springs on June 7-8, as Washington ...
President Barack Obama on Monday welcomed Myanmar’s president to the White House — the first such visit in nearly 50 ...
India says all issues will be “on the table,” including a recent border spat and a festering trade imbalance, during ...
Gunmen killed a Pakistani politician from Imran Khan’s party in the southern port city of Karachi on the eve of a partial rerun of May 11 polls that were marked by more than 150 killings. Zohra Hussain, 59, vice president of the women’s wing ...
The Philippines on Saturday rejected Taiwan’s allegations that its coast guard had intentionally murdered a Taiwanese fisherman whose death has triggered a major diplomatic spat. Hong Shi-cheng, a 65-year-old fisherman, was shot dead by the Philippine Coast Guard, who said his vessel intruded into ...
T-shirts bearing images of U.S. President Barack Obama and Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s prodemocracy leader, hang side by side in the shops just off busy Kabar Aye Pagoda Road in Yangon. It’s a reminder of the history made in November when Obama became ...
The scandal shaking up South Korea’s main spy agency is not cloak-and-dagger stuff, but the kind of low-grade trickery anyone with an Internet connection could pull off. And the target was not Seoul’s opaque rival to the north, but the country’s own people. Internet ...
Former President Joseph Estrada was proclaimed Tuesday as the new mayor of the Philippine capital, his first elected post since he was ousted in an anticorruption revolt 12 years ago. In other partial results from Monday’s congressional and local elections, nine senatorial candidates backed ...
The family of deceased dictator Ferdinand Marcos enjoyed easy wins in Philippine elections, official data showed Tuesday, with his unrepentant wife leading the clan’s political charge. Imelda Marcos captured more than 88 percent of the votes cast Monday to win a second-consecutive term in ...
South Korean President Park Geun Hye personally apologized Monday for an “unsavory” incident during her U.S. summit visit that led to the dismissal of her chief spokesman. Yoon Chang Jung was sacked over allegations that he had sexually harassed a female intern — a ...
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif looked poised to return to office with a resounding election victory — a mandate that could make it easier to tackle the country’s daunting problems, including growing power outages, weak economic growth and shaky government finances. Questions remain, ...
Former Pakistani leader Nawaz Sharif on Sunday appealed for cross-party support to help rebuild the nuclear-armed but economically crippled nation after winning historic elections that defied Taliban violence. Partial, unofficial results from Saturday’s election represented a stunning comeback for the 63-year-old tycoon, who was ...
The strong Australian dollar gave an “unprecedented whack” to tax revenue the government needed to return the nation’s budget to surplus, Treasurer Wayne Swan said Sunday. Spending on disability payments and a program to improve schools are the “big-ticket items” in the budget to ...
Defying the danger of militant attacks, Pakistanis streamed to the polls Saturday for a historic vote pitting a former cricket star against a two-time prime minister and an unpopular incumbent. But bombings that killed at least ten people and wounded dozens more underlined the ...
Bomb blasts tore through two campaign events Tuesday in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 18 people, authorities said, as attacks ahead of Saturday’s national election continued against liberal politicians. About 100 people have been killed since April in violence against candidates and party supporters, ...