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In Iraq's holiest city, a pontiff will meet a revered ayatollah and make history with a message of coexistence in a place plagued by bitter divisions.
by QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA AND SAMYA KULLAB THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - March 4, 2021The Kremlin on Wednesday shrugged off new Western sanctions over the poisoning and arrest of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny as unfounded and pointl...
by VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - March 4, 2021Burma's security forces dramatically escalated their crackdown on protests against last month's coup, killing at least 34 protesters Wednesday in several cit...
by The Associated Press - March 4, 2021A barrage of rockets was fired Wednesday at the Ain al-Asad air base in Iraq's western Anbar province -- one of the last remaining Iraqi bases where American...
by JANE ARRAF AND HELENE COOPER THE NEW YORK TIMES - March 4, 2021The coordinated killings of three female journalists were the latest in a bloody campaign against journalists in Afghanistan. In just the past six months, 15...
by TAMEEM AKHGAR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - March 4, 2021The February storm is unforgiving, violently shaking the humanitarian rescuers' vessel as they try to revive a faulty engine and save African migrants drifti...
by BRUNO THEVENIN AND RENATA BRITO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - March 4, 2021Blast jolts Dutch virus-test center
by Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports - March 4, 2021Margaret Kelliher, Minnesota's transportation commissioner, said that after more than 122,000 people voted in a contest to name the state's snowplows, the ag...
March 4, 2021A U.S. contractor died Wednesday when at least 10 rockets slammed into an air base housing U.S. and other coalition troops in western Iraq, the Pentagon said.
by The Associated Press - March 3, 2021YANGON, Myanmar -- The hopes of building a robust democracy in Myanmar were shattered when the powerful military toppled the elected government of Aung San S...
March 3, 2021m Mitt Romney, 73, the Republican U.S. senator from Utah, said he's "doing better" after being knocked unconscious in a fall while spending time with his gra...
by Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports - March 3, 2021GUSAU, Nigeria -- Hundreds of Nigerian girls abducted last week from a boarding school in the country's northwest have been released, a state governor said T...
by The Associated Press - March 3, 20213 Afghan journalists killed in 2 attacks
by Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports - March 3, 2021TAIPEI, Taiwan -- China's vaccine diplomacy campaign has been a surprising success: It has pledged roughly half a billion doses of its vaccine to more than 4...
by The Associated Press - March 3, 2021GENEVA -- A leader of the United Nations-backed project to deploy covid-19 vaccines to needy people in both rich and poor countries acknowledged Tuesday that...
by The Associated Press - March 3, 2021