In a first, pope and staff to hold retreat outside Vatican
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis, cardinals, bishops and other Holy See officials will hold their week-long Lenten spiritual retreat outside the Vatican for the first time in living memory, the Vatican said on Thursday.
Adopted children fight Irish state secrecy to find parents
OMAGH, Northern Ireland (Reuters) – Catherine Droogan turns 40 this year. That’s one of the few personal details she can be sure of.
Twelve dead in Qatar restaurant gas explosion: news agency
DOHA (Reuters) – Twelve people including two children were killed on Thursday when a gas tank exploded at a Turkish restaurant in the Qatari capital Doha, authorities in the Gulf Arab state reported.
Obama, Palestinians’ Abbas to meet at White House March 17
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the White House on March 17 to talk about Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, the White House said on Thursday.
Crimea is bastion of resistance to Ukraine’s new rulers
SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (Reuters) – Waving the Russian flag and chanting “Russia! Russia!”, protesters in Crimea have become the last major bastion of resistance to Ukraine’s new rulers.
South Sudan government troops, rebels may have committed war crimes: HRW
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – South Sudan’s government troops and rebel forces have committed serious abuses that may amount to war crimes during fighting in two oil-producing regions, with patients too weak to flee shot in their beds, according to rights an…
Suicide car bomb kills at least 10 in Somali capital
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – An Islamist militant suicide bomber drove a car into a Mogadishu cafe frequented by members of the security forces on Thursday, killing at least 10 people and blowing the place to bits.
Israeli forces kill Palestinian in the West Bank
BIRZEIT, West Bank (Reuters) – Israeli forces opened fire and killed a Palestinian they were seeking to arrest in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, after the man had barricaded himself inside his house, Reuters witnesses said.
Ex-Murdoch editor Brooks: ‘I sanctioned payments to officials’
LONDON (Reuters) – Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch’s former British newspaper boss, told a London court on Thursday she had sanctioned payments to public officials but denied authorizing illegal sums for which she is on trial.
Court clears former German president of corruption
HANOVER (Reuters) – A German court cleared Christian Wulff on Thursday of corruption charges for accepting roughly 700 euros in expenses at a beer festival when he was a state premier, ending the first trial of a former post-war president.
