FLORENCE, Italy (CNS) — Bishops and mayors from cities around the Mediterranean gathered to talk about migration, peace, development and the promotion of human rights, but war broke out in Ukraine and overshadowed their discussions. Benjamina Karic, the 31-year-old mayor of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, was at the meeting in Florence. Her city has become the symbol…

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Ambassador Đặng Hoàng Giang, the newly-appointed Permanent Representative of Việt Nam to the United Nations, presenting his credentials to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (right). — VNA/VNS Photo NEW YORK — United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said that Việt Nam is a trustworthy partner of the UN, and described the country as a successful example of a developing nation, given its achievements so…

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SINGAPORE– President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc on February 26 met with former Prime Minister of Singapore Goh Chok Tong, and Senior Minister and Coordinating Minister for National Security Teo Chee Hean as part of his State visit to Singapore. President Phúc said that Việt Nam highly valued the precious support that former PM Goh Chok Tong…

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TORTOLA — The British Virgin Islands recorded its second homicide of the year when a businessman was gunned down Thursday night near a Huntums Ghut gas station in what witnesses told police was a drive-by shooting. The deceased was identified as 30-year-old Le’Shaughn Smith, the owner of trucking, car rental and boating businesses. The shooting…

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ST. THOMAS — Human Services Commissioner Kimberly Causey-Gomez is blaming a backlog of cases in its Division of Children and Family Services on a staffing shortage. “With the exception of the St. Croix District Foster Care and Adoptions Unit, every other unit within DCFS has critical vacancies. Staff in these units are managing an excessive…

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