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- CLAIRE GIANGRAVÉ
Vatican City
RNS
On Thursday, the Vatican hosted a Christmas tree lighting ceremony ahead of the holidays, but it was the Nativity scene that stole the show.
Almost entirely made from wood, the Nativity scene ticks every box of Pope Francis’ pontificate. The plight of immigrants and refugees
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China has threatened to retaliate against the US after the House of Representatives approved a bill to sanction senior Chinese officials for helping orchestrate the country’s brutal crackdown against its Uighur Muslim minority.
The Democrat-controlled House voted on Tuesday overwhelmingly in favour of the bipartisan Uyghur Human Rights
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When a worried parent calls for help finding a missing child, Norma Ledezma says she often immediately has a sense of whether they are likely to be found alive.
Seventeen years after her daughter Paloma disappeared in northern Mexico, Ledezma has helped hundreds of families
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- JONATHAN BARRETT
Sydney, Australia
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Samoa on Thursday closed all non-essential public and private services for two days to combat a measles epidemic that has killed more than 60 people, mostly babies and children, in a battle complicated by a vocal anti-vaccination movement.
The measles virus has infected more
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- UMBERTO BACCHI
Tbilisi, Georgia
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Privacy concerns are pushing people to change their behaviour online, according to an international poll published on Wednesday that found one in three avoid specific search terms or web pages to elude tracking.
More than seven in 10 respondents to a survey
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- IAN RANSOM
Sydney, Australia
Reuters
Rugby Australia boss Raelene Castle has defended the governing body's settlement with Israel Folau as a "commercial decision" and necessary to avoid the cost and distraction of testing its inclusion policy in court.
RA and Folau announced on Wednesday they had settled their unfair dismissal
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Madrid, Spain
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Worsening heatwaves are taking a heavier toll on rich as well as poor countries, according to an annual ranking that measures the damage done by extreme weather to human life and economies.
The Global Climate Risk Index, published on Wednesday by environmental
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- CLAIRE GIANGRAVÉ
Vatican City
RNS
At an event welcoming 33 refugees sponsored by the Vatican, the cardinal in charge of administrating Pope Francis’ charitable work called European bishops to “wake up” and take a stand in welcoming displaced persons fleeing persecution in the world.
“There is great compassion from the
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- JAN WOLFE
Washington DC, US
Reuters
The US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee was scheduled to hold its first impeachment hearing on 4th December, starting a new phase of the inquiry that could lead to formal charges against President Donald Trump within weeks.
The following explains the basics of impeachment,
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Melbourne, Australia
Reuters
Former Wallabies fullback Israel Folau has settled his unfair dismissal case with Rugby Australia and Super Rugby team the New South Wales Waratahs, bringing an end to a prolonged and bitter dispute triggered by an explosive social media post.
Folau, a fundamentalist Christian, launched legal
