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BAGHDAD (AP) — Sunni insurgents are expanding their offensive in western Iraq. The militants, who are led by an al-Qaida breakaway group, have captured three strategic towns in Anbar province and a border crossing with Syria. Qaim (kym), Rawah (RAY'-wah) and Anah are the first towns seized in the province since the militants overran Fallujah and parts of Ramadi earlier this year.
CASSANO ALL'JONIO, Italy (AP) — Pope Francis is lashing out at the mob. He journeyed Saturday to the heart of Italy's biggest crime syndicate. During a one-day pilgrimage to the southern region of Calabria, he met the imprisoned father of a 3-year-old boy slain in the region's drug war, and declared .that all mobsters are automatically excommunicated from the Catholic Church.
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) - Police say more than 6,000 people marched through the streets of Greece's second largest city on Saturday in its third gay pride parade. Taking part In the march was the mayor of Thessaloniki and the consuls of the U.S., U.K., Germany, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland and Portugal. The march was condemned by the local Orthodox church.
KIRKLAND, Wash. (AP) — Police say U.S. women's soccer star Hope Solo has been arrested at a suburban Seattle home for assaulting her sister and nephew. She was booked into jail today and.is expected to appear Monday at Kirkland Municipal Court. Solo is a goalkeeper for the U.S. women's national team. She is married to former Seattle Seahawk Jerramy Stevens.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is closing a conference designed to mobilize religious conservative voters before the upcoming midterm elections and the 2016 presidential contest. Several prospective Republican presidential candidates have addressed more than 1,000 evangelical Christians attending the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference in Washington, D.C.
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