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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 …

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US cites Chinese Internet filters as trade barrier

BEIJING (AP) – The American government has cited Chinese Internet controls as a trade barrier in a report that comes as Beijing tries to block its public from seeing news online about the finances of leaders’ families. Chinese filters, which block access to websites including the Google search engine and …

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Xi seen as easily surviving revelations in Panama Papers

BEIJING (AP) – For graft-busting Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping, the Panama Papers revelations that show his brother-in-law and relatives of two other members of the party’s elite inner circle owned offshore companies, often referred to as tax havens, might have been highly damaging. Instead, Xi will likely emerge …

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Prosecutors seek info on Brussels Airport suspect in hat

BRUSSELS (AP) – Belgian prosecutors launched a public appeal Thursday seeking any information on the “man in hat” suspect in the Brussels Airport suicide bombings that killed 16 people. Belgian Federal Prosecutor Eric Van der Sypt said authorities were especially interested in any people who might have filmed or photographed …

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