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Even though I am no longer active in parish affairs, I am still a member of our Church and its Saint Barbara parish in Sarasota, Florida. I continue to follow with concern the financial, leadership and administrative problems facing our Church.

Turkey needs to have a new and more comprehensive strategy for science, according to Canan Dağdeviren, a top scientist who currently leads a research group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Oxford University has again topped the world's top universities ranking according to the Times Higher Education magazine covering 1,000 universities in 77 countries, BTS quoted TASS as saying.

Elizabeth Freeman, also known as “Mum Bett” was born into slavery around 1742 in Claverack, Columbia County, New York.

Her owner, Pieter Hogeboom, gave her to Sheffield, Massachusetts, resident John Ashley when he married Hogeboom’s daughter Annetje. He was known to be one of the most prominent and respected men in western Massachusetts.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth, the world's oldest and longest-reigning monarch, celebrated her 91st birthday in a usual low-key fashion on April 21.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's message on the occasion of Serbia's Statehood Day makes no mention of the country's EU bid.

This is what AFP noted in its report, adding that "last year on the same day, by contrast, former president Barack Obama’s Secretary of State John Kerry underlined US support for Serbia’s EU entry in the clearest of terms."

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on April 14 condemned as dangerous and provocative a military encounter in the Baltic Sea that the United States has described as a simulated attack on a U.S. destroyer by two Russian warplanes. 

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday condemned as dangerous and provocative a military encounter in the Baltic Sea, with Russian warplanes flying very close to a US military ship.

United States Secretary of State John Kerry stressed that a country without a free and independent press had neither anything to brag about nor the capacity to fulfill its potential. 

U.S. State Department announced that the visit of US Secretary of State John Kerry to Athens scheduled to take place on 14-15 November was postponed.

John Kerry was due to meet with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in order to express the U.S. support in the field of investments and in Greece’s efforts to return to economic growth.