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The Americans killed in a firey plane crash yesterday have been identified, with their families expected to land in Australia early tomorrow to bring their loved ones home. Captain Ian McBeth, 45, First Officer Paul Hudson, 43, and Flight Engineer Rick DeMorgan Jnr, 43, died instantly yesterday when their C-130 Hercules plane crashed in the south of New South Wales, exploding into a ball of flames. The three firefighting aeroplane crew members were killed just before 2pm yesterday when the aerial water tanker they were in crashed while battling fires near Cooma in the state’s Snowy Mountains region. The plane...

ABC News' Trish Turner said Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren was spotted playing a game on paper.

Priest’s Parents Vanish in Southeastern Turkey Search Continues 12 Days After Disappearance 01/23/2020 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on January 11, 2020, the elderly parents of a Chaldean Catholic priest in Turkey disappeared. The absence of Hurmuz and Simoni Diril was discovered the following day, and their son was informed that it was a kidnapping. The man who witnessed the abduction said that the couple was taken by PKK members, two men and one woman. An investigation into the disappearance remains ongoing by the Turkish authorities. A search for their location has...

Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg and Mike Bloomberg claim they’re proposing a moderate, less disruptive approach to health-care reform when they advocate a public option—a government policy offered as an alternative to private health insurance—in lieu of Medicare for All. Don’t believe it. My research finds that such proposals would increase the federal deficit dramatically and destabilize the market for private health insurance, threatening health-care quality and choice. While estimates by the Congressional Budget Office and other analysts have concluded that a public option-style proposal would reduce federal deficits, those effects are predicated on two flawed assumptions: first, that the government...

Yemen: Shi’ite jihadists target Sunni mosque in missile attack, murder at least 73 JAN 21, 2020 3:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER “At least 73 soldiers killed in missile attack ‘on mosque’ in Yemen,” by Samuel Osborne,” Independent, January 19, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace): At least 73 soldiers have been killed in a missile attack reportedly launched by Houthi rebels at a mosque in Yemen. Dozens more were left wounded in the attack, which targeted a mosque in a military training camp in the city of Marib, two medical sources told Reuters. The Iran-aligned Houthis did not immediately...

Several members attending a furry convention in California on Friday helped restrain a man who was assaulting his girlfriend until police arrested him, according to officials.

The US Embassy Warns of Serious Consequences in the Event of Getting Close to it Thursday 23 , January 2020 Baghdad (NINA) - The American Embassy warned of grave consequences in the event of getting close to it. The Embassy wrote on the walls of the external checkpoints warnings of approaching them without official approval, threatening serious consequences if they crossed them. The warning came with the launch of a million demonstration on Friday to expel foreign forces from the country. / End

Taliban Kill 6 Members of Same Family, Including An Infant, Say Afghan Officials Representative Image Representative Image The Taliban denied any involvement, saying the attack on Saturday was triggered by a personal dispute. LAST UPDATED: JANUARY 19, 2020, 8:31 PM IST Kabul: Afghan officials on Sunday said the Taliban executed six members of the same family, including an infant girl, in a remote village in the country's north. The Taliban denied any involvement, saying the attack on Saturday was triggered by a personal dispute. However, local Afghan officials said the family was accused by the Taliban of working in prostitution....

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The Abbey of Our Lady of Phước Sơn is home to 220 monks, including 80 novices and postulants. In Vietnam, there are about 1,002 Cistercian monks and 244 Cistercian nuns.Novices and postulantsPhước Sơn (AsiaNews) – “Young Vietnamese are attracted to the monastic life,” says Fr Gioan Baotixita Dung, a Cistercian monk at the Abbey of Our Lady of Phước Sơn. The abbey, which is about 70 km south of Ho Chi Minh City not far from Vũng Tàu, is home to 220 monks, 80 of whom are novices and postulants. In addition to work and prayer, the monastery is also...

Netanyahu, Gantz to visit Trump, discuss peace plan next week Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will travel to Washington, D.C., next week to meet with President Trump and other officials and discuss a long-awaited Middle East peace plan. Vice President Pence said during a meeting with Netanyahu in Jerusalem that Trump had asked him to invite Netanyahu to Washington to discuss "regional issues, as well as the prospect of peace here in the Holy Land.” Netanyahu "gladly accepted" the invitation. Pence said he would also invite Benny Gantz, Netanyahu's political rival and the leader of Israel's Blue and White Party....

The Welsh government has announced new education plans meaning parents will no longer have the right to opt their children out of lessons about relationships, sexuality or religion. Welsh Education Minister Kirsty Williams said the move would be tested from next year before becoming a compulsory part of the new curriculum in 2022. Introducing LGBT themes in place of sex educationMuch like the new sex education guidelines that have been introduced in England, which are set to come into force from September this year, the Welsh programme also introduces LGBT themes. The draft guidance outlines themes that are to be...

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Twelve former students of a man convicted of sexually abusing them when he was their teacher at a San Francisco Bay Area school will receive a combined $10.9 million to settle a lawsuit against the school, an attorney said. Ronald David Guinto, 38, is serving a 931-year sentence after being convicted in 2017 of molesting 15 boys when he was their teacher at Making Waves Academy in Richmond and ran a youth program.

A structure not even big enough to be called a bridge on a road that supporters attending President Donald Trump’s Jan. 28 rally in Wildwood might use was closed by state Department of Transportation officials because it could collapse. **SNIP** State officials, however, said they had to close a less-than-a-mile portion of Route 47 “due to numerous sinkholes that have compromised the roadway,” including a three-foot sinkhole that developed this week, said Stephen Schapiro, a DOT spokesman. The DOT sent out press advisories on Jan. 17. Route 47 is a mostly two-lane state highway - also known as Delsea Drive...

The almighty dollar has transformed former churches around Greater Boston into everything from condos to a Dollar Tree store. The Archdiocese of Boston has closed more than 70 former houses of worship since 2004, and in that time, buyers have moved in. But it’s a transformation that’s come with a lot of criticism. “If you stand back and take a broad view, here you have one of the strongest Catholic dioceses in the United States, created back in the 1800s when America was still very new. It is in full retreat,” said Peter Borre, chairman of the Boston-based Council of...

MIAMI - Refugees make an important impact in the United States and should not be denied resettlement as the Texas governor recently decided, said Miami Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski. The archbishop, writing in a letter to the editor posted online Jan. 16 for the Miami Herald, noted that Albert Einstein was a refugee and former Florida Republican Sen. Mel Martinez was an unaccompanied minor when he came to Florida as part of Operation Peter Pan - when more than 14,000 Cuban minors came to the United States in the early 1960s. “Today, Texas wouldn’t allow either one to resettle there....

President Trump said on Thursday that he’ll “save” Social Security, a day after he said he is open to reviewing entitlement spending in a second term. “Democrats are going to destroy your Social Security. I have totally left it alone, as promised, and will save it!” Mr. Trump tweeted aboard Air Force One on his way to the Republican National Committee’s winter meetings at his Doral golf resort in Florida. In the Democratic primary, Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont is accusing former Vice President Joseph R. Biden of being open to cuts in Social Security, a charge that Mr. Biden...

Former CIA Director James Woolsey, CIA Director John Brennan, and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, worked in concert to frame President Donald Trump and President Trump’s National Security Advisor Lt. General Michael Flynn as “Russian agents.” General Flynn had become a “problem” for President Obama and for the Obama/Clinton Deep State intelligence apparatus. General Flynn had not only begun advising the Trump Campaign in February 2016, but also had called out President Obama’s “willful” decision to arm ISIS. On November 17, 2016, President-elect Trump named General Flynn to be White House national security adviser. Even as ISIS expanded across...

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg may want to get his supporters to the polls, but his refusal to bring them to a pole is drawing the ire of some in the LGBT community. The former South Bend, Ind., mayor's campaign canceled a fundraiser at Dark Lady, a gay Rhode Island nightclub, following a dispute over the presence of a stripper pole, according to the venue.