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BARTELLA, Iraq (AP) — For the 300 Christians who braved wind and rain to attend Christmas’s Eve Mass in their hometown, the ceremony evoked both holiday cheer and grim reminders of the war raging around their northern Iraqi town, and the distant prospect of moving […]

BETHLEHEM — The Palestinian Authority is hosting a throng of visitors for Christmas celebrations in the West Bank town of Bethlehem. Thousands of pilgrims from around the world flocked to Manger Square in Bethlehem to celebrate Christmas. There were longs lines at the ancient Church of […]

Bana Alabed – the seven-year-old Syrian who tweeted about life inside rebel-held east Aleppo – has met Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Bana and her little brother have been pictured sitting on Mr Erdogan’s knee in the presidential complex in Ankara. President Erdogan sent a […]

Wednesday is the longest night of the year, and in many U.S. cities it will also be one of the coldest. Even so, more than a half-million Americans will be sleeping outside or in homeless shelters. This week, activists are holding vigils around the country […]

10. Your Name Makoto Shinkai’s Japanese smash hit is dazzling in more ways than one. The range of lighting effects and painterly panoramas makes it the most spectacular cartoon of the year, and the plotting gets weirder and more apocalyptic as it goes along: Your […]

AMY GUTTMAN: Since the U.S. Government eased restrictions on travel to Cuba early last year, the number of American tourists visiting the Caribbean island nation has soared. About 230-thousand went to Cuba in the first 11 months of this year, roughly two-and-half times the number […]

Finally, after more than 120 years, Paul Smith has recovered something he never knew was missing in the first place. The headmaster at Hereford Cathedral School, near the boundary between Wales and England, had been looking at his mail earlier this month when he noticed […]

“Christmas Village” was officially launched, on Saturday, at Beirut Souks with an opening ceremony headed by Deputy Atef Majdalani representing PM-designate Saad El Hariri, Mr. Mohamed Choukair, President of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry & Agriculture in Beirut and Mount Lebanon, and Mrs. Sandra Ghattas, […]

Until seven years ago, Chicago-born Ben Barron had worked only with fellow Americans. But when he took a job with Zurich Insurance Company, an international company headquartered in Switzerland, Barron found that his new colleagues across Europe, who used English as a shared language, had […]