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The Vatican must “deliver real results” from its investigations into money-laundering, the Council of Europe’s financial agency has said. In its latest report, Moneyval said the Vatican had improved its financial management and its bank had shut down almost 5,000 suspicious accounts. Vatican prosecutors had frozen about €11m ($12m;£8m) andContinue Reading

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Manila: About 725,000 people fled their homes and communities braced for heavy rain and coastal floods of up to 13 feet as Typhoon Melor slammed Monday into the eastern Philippines, officials said. Classes, flights and ferry trips were suspended. The government’s weather bureau said the typhoon was packing winds ofContinue Reading

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London: Relatives and friends of actor Saeed Jaffrey, who died in London last month aged 86, bid a final farewell to him at a west London church on Monday. Saeed, who played Sardar Vallabhai Patel in Richard Attenborough’s “Gandhi” film, and his wife Jennifer had been attending Sunday service atContinue Reading

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Pope Francis pushed open the great bronze doors of St. Peter’s Basilica on Tuesday to launch his Holy Year of Mercy, declaring that mercy trumps moralizing in his Catholic Church. Francis stood in prayer on the threshold of the basilica’s Holy Door then walked through it, the first of anContinue Reading