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 …
Read More »In Chile, Wal-Mart adapts to local tastes to reach the top
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) – As Wal-Mart tries to build an international juggernaut, it has had no greater success than in Chile, where even its failures show a commitment to adapting quickly to local shopping habits. Take, for example, the company’s bread snafu. Bread is a big deal in Chile. The …
Read More »From a young activist, a show of anger at Egypt’s courts
CAIRO (AP) – Egyptian activist Sanaa Seif decided she had had enough of Egypt’s justice system. When the 22-year-old was summoned for questioning on accusations of inciting protests, she refused to answer the investigating judge’s questions. She told him she would not participate in the “charade” and said the courts …
Read More »Rain pummels France, Seine River overflows Paris embankments
PARIS (AP) – The Seine River has overflowed embankments in Paris as floods hit or threaten cities and towns around France. Paris City Hall closed roads along the shore of the Seine from the southwest edge of the city to the neighborhood around the Eiffel Tower as the water level …
Read More »North Korea’s media praise Trump talk about US troops
TOKYO (AP) – Donald Trump appears to be finding some friends in North Korea. The presumptive U.S. Republican presidential nominee has been getting good press this week in the North’s carefully controlled media, first in an opinion piece that praised him as “wise” and full of foresight and then Wednesday …
Read More »Afghan official: Taliban hit court in east Ghazni, killing 6
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – Taliban gunmen stormed a court building in an eastern Afghan province on Wednesday, killing five civilians and a policeman, the Interior Ministry said. A statement from the ministry said “four terrorists” were involved in the attack in the city of Ghazni, the capital of the eastern …
Read More »Futuristic Dubai office showcases 3-D printing’s potential
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – There are office printers that spit out documents and others that always seem to jam. And then there those that make the office itself. A small group of employees in Dubai is starting to move into a new workspace that the emirate says is …
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