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Fresh protests erupt in Sudan over economic woes

Demonstrations continued in Sudan for a fourth day on Saturday over the deteriorating economic conditions in the country.   Protests broke out in Aba Island and Er-Rahad in northern Sudan and in the southern town of Berber, according to local residents.   Eyewitnesses...

Suicide bombing kills 6 in Somalia

At least six people were killed and others wounded when a suicide car bombing targeted a security checkpoint near the presidential palace in Mogadishu on Saturday morning, officials said. "What we know about the attack is that a suicide car bomb blast targeted one of our security...

Palestinian shot by Israeli forces dies: Gaza ministry

An 18-year-old Palestinian shot by Israeli forces died of his wounds Saturday, the fourth fatality from protests along the Gaza border a day earlier, health officials in the Hamas-run enclave said. Ayman Shehr was shot in the stomach in Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza, health ministry...

Pope to abusers: Turn yourselves in

Pope Francis vowed Friday that the Catholic Church will “never again” cover up clergy sex abuse and demanded that priests who have raped and molested children turn themselves in. Francis dedicated his annual Christmas speech to the Vatican bureaucracy to abuse - evidence that a year of...