Tensions mount as record numbers crowd French migrant camp
By ELAINE GANLEY Tempers are rising among migrants squeezed in record numbers into a shrinking slum camp in France’s port city of Calais, where they spend hours in line waiting…
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EU says Apple must pay up to 13B euros in back taxes
By JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG Apple will have to pay up to 13 billion euros ($14.5 billion) plus interest in back taxes to Ireland after the European Union found Tuesday that the…
IS buried thousands in 72 mass graves, AP finds
By LORI HINNANT and DESMOND BUTLER Surrounded by smoke and flames, the sound of gunshots echoing around him, the young man crouched in the creek for hours, listening to the…
Does China still harvest organs of executed? Doctors divided
A Canadian patient’s receipt of a kidney transplant after waiting just three days during a recent visit to China raised an immediate red flag among surgeons at the Montreal-based Transplantation…
Billionaire Richard Branson survives bike crash
By DANICA KIRKA Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson said Friday he thought he was going to die after flying head first off his bicycle in the British Virgin Islands. The Virgin…
Officials: Striking miners kill deputy minister in Bolivia
By CARLOS VALDEZ Striking miners in Bolivia armed with dynamite seized highways in a protest over mining laws and then kidnapped, possibly tortured and beat to death the county’s deputy…
Obama plans to create world’s largest marine protected area
By KEVIN FREKING President Barack Obama will expand a national monument off the coast of Hawaii, creating a safe zone for tuna, sea turtles and thousands of other species in…
US, Russia renew push for elusive agreement on Syria
By MATTHEW LEE and JAMEY KEATEN The United States and Russia on Friday renewed efforts to secure a military and humanitarian cooperation agreement for war-torn Syria after months of hesitation,…