PAKISTAN-U.S. TENSIONS: The Pakistani military is so angry over U.S. airstrikes last week that it is threatening to postpone or cancel a U.S. program to train a paramilitary force in counterinsurgency for combating militants, two Pakistani government officials said.
CASTRO ON TV: Cuban TV is showing Fidel Castro, 81, chatting in a garden with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the first images of the ailing revolutionary broadcast in six months.
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‘It is our hope that this solemn commemoration of such a great pope can give rise to further in-depth research, free of prejudices concerning his actions.’
– Monsignor Walter Brandmuller, president of the Pontifical Committee for Historic Sciences. The Vatican said Tuesday that it will mark the 50th anniversary this year of the death of Pope Pius XII, describing the controversial World War II pontiff as a great pope who spoke out when necessary. The Vatican has often defended Pius from charges that he remained largely silent in the face of the Holocaust.
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