Pope Francis Encourages Religious Tolerance in Azerbaijan and other top stories.

• Pope Francis Encourages Religious Tolerance in Azerbaijan

  

  BAKU, Azerbaijan — Pope Francis traveled to Azerbaijan on Sunday for a 10-hour visit aimed at encouraging the country's inter-religious harmony while likely overlooking criticism of a referendum that extends the president's term and powers.Francis' first stop was to celebrate Mass for Azerbaijan's tiny Catholic community. The Caucasus nation — the second-largest Shiite Muslim country after Iran — has fewer than 300 Azeri Catholics. Several thousand foreigners make up the rest of its Catholic c..

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• Colombia conflict: Voters decide on Farc peace deal

  

  Image copyright AFP Image caption Under the deal, the Farc will be relaunched as a political party People in Colombia are set to vote on whether to accept a peace deal agreed by the government and Farc rebels.The historic agreement would see the group handing over weapons, ending its involvement in the drugs trade and changing into a political movement.Polls suggest voters are set to back the deal, despite criticism that the concessions to the rebels ..

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• Brexit: PM to trigger Article 50 by end of March

  

  Media captionTheresa May confirms Article 50 deadline Theresa May will formally begin the Brexit process by the end of March 2017, she has told the BBC.The PM's announcement on triggering Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty - which begins the formal negotiation process - means the UK looks set to leave the EU by the summer of 2019.Mrs May also promised a bill to remove the European Communities Act 1972 from the statute book.She said this would make the UK an "independent, sovereign nation".The..

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• Explosion at Cafe Injures 90 at Festival in Southern Spain

  

  MADRID — Authorities say an explosion at a cafe in southern Spain has injured 90 people at a local festival, five of them seriously.The Saturday night explosion occurred at around 7 p.m. in Velez-Malaga, a small town neighboring Malaga, a popular tourist destination in Spain's southern Andalusia region. Authorities have not confirmed that a gas leak caused the explosion but said a leak may have caused glass on the cafe's windows and doors to explode.The Andalusia emergency service said 57 of t..

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• The Latest: EU leader sees danger in Hungary migrant vote

  

  A couple kiss as people gesture during a concert by nationalist band Romantic Violence that followed a rally by far right sympathizers, supporting Hungarian Premier Viktor Orban’s policies on migrants in Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016. Hungary is holding a referendum on Sunday against future European Union quotas for accepting asylum seekers, but schemes already in place to ensure EU member countries are taking in a fair share of the migrants reaching Europe hardly are working now..

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• Trump Tax Return Shows He Could Have Avoided Taxes for 18 Years: NYT

  

  The New York Times has published documents it said were Donald Trump's 1995 income tax returns, and the documents appear to show the businessman and GOP nominee reported a nearly $1 billion loss. Trump declared a nearly $916 million loss on his 1995 state income tax returns according to the documents, the Times reported in an article posted online Saturday night. An unsigned statement from the Trump campaign posted to its website late Saturday did not appear to deny or dispute a single fac..

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