Vatican document challenges Church to change attitude to gays
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – In a dramatic shift in tone, a Vatican document said on Monday that homosexuals had “gifts and qualities to offer” and asked if Catholicism could accept gays and recognize positive aspects of same-sex couples.
Austrian ex-interior minister’s jail term for bribery cut to three years
VIENNA (Reuters) – Austria’s top court on Monday reduced on appeal to three years a jail term imposed on an ex-European Parliament member for offering to propose amendments to laws in exchange for 100,000 euros ($126,830) a year, a court spokesman said…
Government-backed candidates win in Turkish judicial vote
ANKARA (Reuters) – Government-backed candidates won most seats in a top Turkish judicial body, election results showed on Monday, tightening President Tayyip Erdogan’s control over the judiciary in a victory over his rival Fethullah Gulen.
Taliban ambush kills 22 Afghan soliders, police in north: official
KABUL (Reuters) – Taliban insurgents ambushed a convoy of Afghan security forces in a mountainous area of northern Afghanistan on Monday, killing 22 soldiers and police, an official said.
The key to nuclear’s future or an element of doubt?
CADARACHE France (Reuters) – Behind thick glass in a laboratory nestled in French woodland, a silvery molten metal swirls like a liquid mirror. But the material is no mere novelty; as dangerous as it is captivating, it could offer a solution to the nuc…
Ukraine’s Poroshenko proposes National Guard commander for defense minister
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Monday proposed National Guard commander Stepan Poltorak for defense minister, the presidential website said.
UK vote on Palestine status will not change policy – PM Cameron’s spokesman
LONDON (Reuters) – British foreign policy towards Palestine will not change, even if lawmakers on Monday vote in favor of a motion stating that the government should recognize it as a state, Prime Minister David Cameron’s official spokesman told report…
China court sentences 12 to death for Xinjiang attacks
BEIJING (Reuters) – A court in the unruly far western Chinese region of Xinjiang sentenced 12 people to death and handed out dozens of other heavy sentences on Monday for attacks in July in which almost 100 people died.
Afghan officials say air strike killed civilians, NATO says ‘enemy’
KABUL (Reuters) – An Afghan official said a NATO air strike killed seven civilians in the country’s east, including a nine-year-old child, but the international coalition said on Monday the strike killed eight militants who had fired on its forces.
U.S. warships stay in Philippines amid transgender murder probe
MANILA (Reuters) – The commander of U.S. Pacific Command has stopped two of its warships from leaving the Philippines after a U.S. Marine was named as a suspect in the murder of a transgender Filipino he met in a bar, a Philippine official said on Mond…
