BRUSSELS (AP) – Belgian authorities have detained a sixth person suspected of ties to the Brussels bombings, a group that includes the last known fugitive of last year’s Paris attacks and a Swedish fighter with possible links to attacks in both Brussels and Paris, prosecutors said Saturday. The arrests could …
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Polish workers in UK worry about possibility of Brexit
WARSAW, Poland (AP) – Hundreds of thousands of people whose personal fates hinge on whether Britain leaves the European Union or stays don’t even have a say in the matter: Polish immigrants, a community so numerous that Polish has become Britain’s second most-spoken language. When Poland and many other countries …
Read More »Virgin Mary statue stirs up debate in secular Uruguay
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) – The South American country of Uruguay has a long tradition of secularism, to the point that a popular president in the early 1900s insisted on writing the word “God” with a lowercase “g” whenever he wrote about his policies in local newspapers. So when the Catholic …
Read More »Greece: 2 weeks or more to fix deportations
ATHENS, Greece (AP) – The Latest on the flow of people into Europe (all times local): 5:25 p.m. Greece says it will take at least two weeks to fix the process of deporting migrants from the eastern Aegean islands to Turkey. The country’s deputy foreign minister for European affairs, Nikos …
Read More »In latest claim, N. Korea says it tests new rocket engine
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea’s latest belligerent declaration – that it successfully tested a new long-range rocket engine that could allow nuclear strikes on the U.S. mainland – leaves outsiders in a familiar predicament. With only a few details and no independent confirmation of what happened, there’s the …
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