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( Pope Francis meets refugees at the Moria refugee camp, on the Greek island of Lesbos, Saturday, April 16, 2016.) With Italian lessons and strolls around Rome, the 12 Syrian asylum seekers Pope Francis brought back with him from Lesbos are settling into new lives, their hosts said Monday. The three Muslim families are being housed temporarily by the Saint'Egidio religious community in the Rome district of Trastevere while they await longer-term accommodation being prepared for them in the Vatican, community spokesman Maximiliano Signifredi told AFP. "Yesterday they had their first Italian lessons. They have been going for walks...

So, get this.. “Space.. the final frontier” made it into State Dept.’s Rose E. Gottemoeller’s remarks to the Disarmament and International Security Committee of the United Nations General Assembly. She talked START, she talked Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), Biological Weapons Conventions (BWC), Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty (FMCT), and then she had this to say about our official Space Policy:(Remarks) In late June, the new U.S. national space policy was released by the Obama Administration. This policy reaffirms a commitment by the United States to cooperate with other nations to maintain the freedom of space and...