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Chandigarh, June 28: Rain lashed many areas in north-west India as south-west monsoon further advanced into some more parts of Punjab and Haryana today. More...

NEW YORK Leaders of the National Council of Churches and several member denominations marked July 4 with a petition stating vehement opposition to United States policy in Iraq...

VATICAN CITY The Vatican said Saturday it hoped to quickly normalize diplomatic relations with Vietnam _ yet another indication that Pope Benedict XVI is intent on bringing Asia's sizable Catholic minority into formal ties with Rome...

NEW YORK The white teenager jailed without bail after a baseball bat attack on a black man was also prosecuted in a bias incident outside a Sikh temple on Sept. 11, 2001, and was put on probation for a 2002 stabbing...

Thousands of Tibetans in China received blessings from the boy picked by Beijing as the reincarnation of the Panchen Lama _ the second-highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism _ during a visit by him, the government said...