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BERLIN (AP) — An 81-year-old man admitted to sexually assaulting and killing an American tourist in Germany more than 30 years ago at the opening of his trial on Tuesday, German news agency dpa reported. The defendant, whose name was not given in line with German privacy rules, admitted to killing 24-year-old Amy Lopez in 1994 in the western German city of Koblenz, the news agency reported. Prosecutors accused him […]

(SRN NEWS)-The administration is handing out two billion dollars to World Vision, Samaritan’s Purse, Compassion International and other ministries that provide help around the globe when disaster strikes.  Franklin Graham, who heads Samaritan’s Purse says the government cash will still make up a small portion of the ministry’s annual expenses, but it is very welcome and will go into things like field hospitals in Africa’s Ebola zone and air lifts to earthquake-stricken […]

(SRN NEWS)-According to a report by the Department of Health and Human Services, a number of hospitals and doctors have allegedly used billing code chicanery to obtain insurance payments to cover sex-change operations and other procedures to help children live as the opposite sex.  The allegations are included in a 64 page HHS report entitled “Wolves in White Coats:  How Doctors and Hospitals Pushed and Profited the Fraud of Gender […]

(SRN NEWS)- Folks who are going through a divorce, suffering from an illness or dealing with the death of a loved one are more likely than those who are not to say they are reading the Bible.  That’s the finding of a new poll from the American Bible Institute, which also reveals that getting fired or being a victim of a natural disaster also makes people more likely to open the […]

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian American whose home in the occupied West Bank has been besieged for more than a week confronted Israeli settlers on his property Tuesday and demanded Israeli forces remove them from the area. But on his first day back at his home in the village of Qusra, Loui Ridi was ultimately told to go inside because the area was a closed military zone. Israeli […]

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday summoned the Japanese ambassador to protest Tokyo’s condemnation of President Vladimir Putin’s trip to Kuril Islands, the Moscow-controlled Pacific archipelago that is claimed by both countries. Last week, Putin visited Iturup, one of the four southernmost islands of the chain, which Japan calls the Northern Territories. The Soviet Union took them from Japan in the final days of World War II, and […]

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered authorities to take imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan to a private hospital in the capital for a medical examination, following months of concerns from his family and personal physicians about his health and access to medical care, his lawyers and party officials said. A three-judge panel ordered that Khan be taken to Shifa International Hospital in Islamabad in the coming […]

Relations between the U.S. and Canada could deteriorate further at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday if Trump goes ahead with his plan to impose 50% tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian products. The two countries are seeking a truce on the new taxes as the deadline approaches. The fate of the Gaza ceasefire remains unclear after a marathon meeting Monday between U.S. negotiator Jared Kushner and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. […]

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has signed into law a measure that would introduce a conditional pardon for thousands of Kurdish militants as part of a government peace effort with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK. The measure was published in the Official Gazette on Tuesday. It will only come into force after Turkey’s National Security Council confirms that the group has fully dissolved itself and […]