Topic: Crime
An apology by the pope's brother for not doing anything to stop the abuse of students in the 1960s is a "wonderful sign" that the church plans to get to the bottom of the allegations, a top Roman Catholic prelate said Wednesday. Prelate ...
Islamist militants freed a Spanish aid worker and an Italian woman Wednesday who were being taken to Burkina Faso from Mali where kidnappers held them since November, a Malian negotiator said. "The news is good. As we speak the two women are on their way to Burkina," the negotiator said. An anti-terrorist source in Madrid said earlier Wednesday that Alicia ...
Spanish aid worker Alicia Gamez, 39, one of three kidnapped in Mauritania by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in November, is "being freed" an anti-terrorist source in Madrid said Wednesday. "She is being taken to a safe place," the source said. Spanish national radio (RNE) reported that Gamez's freedom was "imminent" and that First Vice President Maria Teresa Fernandez ...
