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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
French-led troops surrounded Mali’s fabled desert city of Timbuktu on Monday after seizing its airport in a lightning advance against Islamists who have been driven from key northern strongholds. French paratroopers swooped in to block any fleeing Islamists while ground troops coming from the ...
Paris AFP-JIJI The French Army regards the actions of one of its soldiers photographed while posing in a skeleton mask in Mali as “unacceptable” behavior, a military spokesman said Monday. “This is unacceptable behavior,” Col. Thierry Burkhard told a news conference. The image, which ...
Disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn paid a settlement of $1.5 million to the New York hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault, a French newspaper reported Sunday. Citing sources close to Strauss-Kahn, Le Journal du Dimanche said Nafissatou Diallo had received the ...
West African leaders Saturday sought urgent U.N. aid for a regional force to fight Islamists in Mali as President Francois Hollande said French troops would remain as long as needed to stamp out “terrorism.” The emergency summit of the Economic Community of West African ...
Cracks in France’s united front behind military action in Mali appeared Wednesday as concern grew over the expanding operation and the reluctance of other Western powers to commit troops. Opposition leader Jean-Francois Cope called the intervention “just and necessary” in a parliamentary debate that ...
French troops surrounded the desert village of Diabaly in central Mali on Wednesday, the first direct engagement since France launched a military assault last week to oust radical Islamists who have advanced to within 400 km of the capital, Bamako. In waging ground combat, ...
Frankfurt AFP-JIJI Germany’s central bank wants to retrieve much of the gold it has stored in Britain, France, and the United States to meet requirements set out by its national auditors, the financial daily Handelsblatt reported Tuesday. The Federal Court of Auditors called for ...
The White House is considering significant military backing for France’s drive against al-Qaida-linked militants in Mali, but its support for a major ally could test U.S. legal boundaries and stretch counterterrorism resources in a murky new conflict. The United States is already providing surveillance ...
Paris AP France appears to be halting the lightning advance of radical Islamists seen as a threat to Europe. But the operation raises the specter of an African quagmire in a new theater of the West’s “war on terror” just as France and other ...
Washington THE WASHINGTON POST U.S. military fighter jets provided backup support to the French hostage rescue mission in Somalia, the White House announced Sunday in a rare public acknowledgment of American combat operations in the Horn of Africa. In a letter to Congress, President ...
France’s vow to battle Islamist militants in Mali “as long as necessary” risks plunging the former colonial power into a prolonged campaign, according to diplomats and experts. “It is getting nasty and there will be a chaotic few weeks ahead,” said a senior U.N. ...
President Moncef Marzouki said Saturday that Tunisia is becoming a “corridor” for arms to Islamist militants in Mali, and the prime ministers of Algeria, Libya and Tunisia sealed a pact to secure their borders against arms trafficking. “The situation in Mali has always worried ...