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ROME (AP) — Pope Francis marked the 12th anniversary of his pontificate Thursday in the hospital — the first pope to do so in modern church history — as he received increasingly positive medical news on his recovery, a cake and hundreds of messages w

A United Nations-backed group of human rights experts accused Israel of “disproportionate violence against women and children” during the war against Hamas in Gaza, and accused Israeli security forces of rape and sexual violence against Palestinian d

GENEVA (AP) — United Nations-backed human rights experts on Thursday accused Israel of “the systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other gender-based violence” in its war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip .

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria's interim president on Thursday signed a temporary constitution that leaves the country under Islamist rule while promising to protect the rights of all Syrians for five years during a transitional phase.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — They called it the “monkey trial.” It was supposed to be a publicity stunt. A hundred years later, it is remembered as far more.

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — U.N.

BEIRUT (AP) — After Syria’s longtime autocratic ruler was toppled late last year , the man who led rebel groups to victory immediately faced a new challenge: unifying the country after more than a decade of civil war.

DALLAS (AP) — A former pastor of a Texas megachurch who resigned after a woman accused him of sexually abusing her in the 1980s has been indicted in Oklahoma on child sexual abuse charges, that state's attorney general’s office said Wednesday.

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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Archaeologists in Cambodia are celebrating an unexpected find at the country’s centuries-old Angkor temple complex: the torso of a statue of Buddha that matches a head found nearly a century ago at the same site.