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Pope Sworn In

Ray Turner - Apr 24, 2005 / 11:01 am | Story: 8787

As many as 500,000 people packed St. Peter's Square Sunday to attend a mass that marked the official start of the pontificate of Benedict XVI.

The crowd erupted into applause as the Pope emerged from St. Peter's Basilica and stood for a few moments to smile and wave before the mass began.

More cheering greeted the Pope as he kissed the altar.Full story
Hundreds of thousands of Armenians marked 90th anniversary of the genocide of 1.5 million Armenians from 1915-1923, an event that is still the subject of an international dispute. Among the crowd in the capital of Yerevan were many Armenians from North America and Europe, members of the country's huge diaspora due in large part to the genocide. Mass deportations and killings happened 90 years ago in the former Ottoman Empire, in a territory that is now eastern Turkey. Turkey acknowledges that large numbers of Armenians died, but says the figures cited today are inflated and that the deaths occurred in the civil unrest during the disintegration of the troubled Ottoman Empire during the First World War.Full story
A car bomb exploded outside a police academy in Saddam Hussein's hometown Sunday, and another one went off moments later as authorities rushed to the scene, killing at least six Iraqis and wounding 33, officials said. The carefully co-ordinated attack by insurgents in Tikrit occurred as academy recruits were about to travel to Jordan for training, said police Leut. Shalan Allawi.Full story

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