AZRAQ REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan (AP) – A barbed wire-topped fence encircles a section of this bleak U.N.-run camp, isolating thousands of recent arrivals – whom Jordan considers a potential security risk – from other Syrian refugees. This camp-within-a-camp, called “Village 5,” was set up in late March as part of …
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Greece: 3 injured in violence at migrant detention camp
ATHENS, Greece (AP) – Authorities in Greece say three migrants have been hospitalized with injuries after violence broke out overnight at a detention camp on the island of Lesbos. The clashes between migrant groups occurred early Thursday and also resulted in a fire that gutted a converted freight container used …
Read More »French nuclear plants, trains on strike over labor bill
PARIS (AP) – Workers are on strike at most French nuclear plants and the national rail service to protest the proposed abolition of some labor protections. Members of the CGT union at 16 of France’s 19 nuclear plants, which provide the majority of the country’s electricity, voted for a one-day …
Read More »Ship detects signals from crashed EgyptAir plane’s black box
CAIRO (AP) – A French ship searching the Mediterranean has detected black box signals from a missing EgyptAir flight in the waters between the Greek island of Crete and the Egyptian coast, a development that could help solve the mystery of why the aircraft crashed into the sea last month, …
Read More »UCLA goes from fear to sadness in professor’s shooting death
LOS ANGELES (AP) – A murder-suicide brought a massive police response and widespread fear of an active shooter among tens of thousands of people at UCLA. Now fear has shifted to sadness as many lament the death of a professor who worked on computer models of the human heart who …
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