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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
Responding to regional worries over North Korea’s bellicose threats, China on Sunday expressed concern and what appeared to be veiled criticism of its longtime ally. “No one should be allowed to throw a region and even the whole world into chaos for selfish gains,” ...
Former Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda briefly meets Chinese President Xi Jinping at a conference in China, but the two avoid discussing bilateral tensions.
Chinese Communist Party officials and intellectuals say President Xi Jinping's fixation on the Soviet Union may prove crucial to China's future direction.
In his first speech as head of the world's most populous country, Chinese President Xi Jinping says he will fight for a "great renaissance of the Chinese nation."
The Japan-China Economic Association is making final arrangements to send a delegation to Beijing for a three-day visit from March 21 in a move that could contribute to mending fraught bilateral ties, association sources said Tuesday. The delegation of Japanese corporate executives, led by ...
Former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama started on Tuesday a four-day visit to China, during which he hopes to meet with national leaders, including Xi Jinping, who replaced Hu Jintao as head of the Communist Party in December. Hatoyama, known as being friendly with China, ...