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BRUSSELS (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is holding counterterrorism talks in Brussels on Friday as top members of Belgium's embattled government face ongoing criticism for a series of security and intelligence failings in the run-up to this week's bomb attacks in the city that killed 31 people and wounded 270....
(Vatican Radio) Monsignor Philip Whitmore brings us a timely musical meditation focusing on the fourth sorrowful mystery of the rosary, "The Carrying of the Cross".Listen to Monsignor Philip Whitmore in a programme produced by Veronica Scarisbrick: "O Crux Ave, Spes Unica". Those words are taken from the ancient Good Friday hymn 'Vexilla Regis',the royal banners forward go. One setting of these words is by Anton Bruckner, the great Austrian symphonist and disciple of Wagner. In addition to his nine grandiose symponies, he also wrote quite a lot of church music. His firm faith shines through his deeply felt motets, which are written with a fascinating blend of traditional choral textures and Wagnerian harmonies.
(Vatican Radio) Monsignor Philip Whitmore brings us a timely musical meditation focusing on the fourth sorrowful mystery of the rosary, "The Carrying of the Cross".
Listen to Monsignor Philip Whitmore in a programme produced by Veronica Scarisbrick:
"O Crux Ave, Spes Unica". Those words are taken from the ancient Good Friday hymn 'Vexilla Regis',the royal banners forward go. One setting of these words is by Anton Bruckner, the great Austrian symphonist and disciple of Wagner. In addition to his nine grandiose symponies, he also wrote quite a lot of church music. His firm faith shines through his deeply felt motets, which are written with a fascinating blend of traditional choral textures and Wagnerian harmonies.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- When former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced his foundation was awarding $5 million to launch Providence's high-tech idea to improve the vocabularies of the city's youngest children, he said he hoped the pilot could take root in Rhode Island and spread across the nation....
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- Helicopters dropping money in the streets: it's a vivid metaphor for a drastic form of central bank stimulus that is gaining attention as a possible way to help the global economy out of its malaise....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two years after problems began with the drinking water in Flint, Michigan, and nearly six months after officials declared a public health emergency, a bipartisan congressional effort to aid the predominantly African-American city is idling in the Senate - stalled by the objections of a single senator from Utah....
NASSARIYA, Egypt (AP) -- In the video, the Egyptian Christian teens laugh playfully as a couple of them kneel down, imitating Muslim prayers, then another slides his hand under one boy's neck, imitating the trademark beheadings of the Islamic State group....
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Prospects of jumpstarting peace talks with the Taliban are becoming increasingly dim amid recent battlefield gains by the insurgents in Afghanistan, an embattled government in Kabul and growing suspicions of Pakistan's good intentions in facilitating such negotiations....
SEATTLE (AP) -- Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders' brand of democratic socialism may take some explaining in some parts of the United States, but not in Seattle....
GENEVA (AP) -- As Syrian peace talks were adjourned in Geneva after 10 days, the U.N. mediator said he was encouraged that there was "no drama, no walkouts" - but, while a shaky truce has continued to hold across the war-torn country, there was also no visible sign of progress on a lasting settlement....
BRUSSELS (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has arrived in Brussels for counter-terrorism talks with EU and Belgian officials and to pay his respects to the victims of this week's attacks....
