CARACAS, Venezuela - Press freedoms in countries throughout the Western Hemisphere are facing serious threats from authoritarian governments, especially in Venezuela and communist-led Cuba, a group representing news media from across the Americas warned Sunday.
CAIRO (AFP) - International donors at a conference in Cairo on Sunday pledged 850 million dollars for the reconstruction of war-ravaged Darfur, way short of the two billion dollars organisers had been expecting.
DUBLIN (AFP) - Worshippers at morning mass in Ireland Sunday welcomed the pope's condemnation of the sexual abuse of children by priests, but said it was too little to prevent people turning away from the Catholic Church.
LIBREVILLE (AFP) - Ex-Central African Republic leader Ange-Felix Patasse, who was ousted in a 2003 coup, has filed papers to run as a candidate in upcoming presidential elections, his spokesman said Sunday.
WASHINGTON - Democrats were poised Sunday to pass historical health-care reform legislation that will undoubtedly become the defining moment of Barack Obama's presidency and likely determine whether it stretches into a second term.