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Gates in Hanoi notes the friendly ties of old foes (AP)

October 11th, 2010

AP - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says Asian territorial disputes should be resolved by international diplomacy.

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Pope notes 70th Blitz anniversary as he says Mass (AP)

September 19th, 2010

Pope Benedict XVI greets the crowd outside the Vatican's Apostolic Nunciature in London as he leaves London for Birmingham, Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010. Pope Benedict XVI  is on a four-day visit, the first-ever state visit by a Pope to Britain. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)AP - Pope Benedict XVI is celebrating Mass to beatify Cardinal John Henry Newman and in that ceremony he has offered a personal reflection on the evilness of the Nazi…

Pope notes attacks on church, urges repentance (AP)

April 15th, 2010

Pope Benedict XVI walks away as a Swiss guard stands in foreground, following his weekly general audience, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 14, 2010. The Vatican has gone into full-fledged damage control mode in the priest sex abuse scandal ahead of Pope Benedict XVI's first foreign trip since it erupted. Officials are promising surprising new initiatives. The pope's personal secretary is speaking out. And bishops around the world are being told to report abuse cases to the police. The revved-up strategy comes as the Vatican tries to stem the damage from weeks of revelations about priests who raped and molested children, and the church officials who kept it quiet — before the pontiff's visit to Malta this weekend. Abuse victims on that majority Roman Catholic Mediterranean island are seeking a papal audience and apology. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - Pope Benedict XVI broke his recent silence on the clerical abuse scandal Thursday, noting recent attacks on the church and the need for “we Christians” to repent for…