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Medical aid group slams EU migrant policy in Libya
BRUSSELS - The medical aid group Doctors Without Borders, or MSF, on Thursday accused the European Union and national governments of funding the criminal abuse of migrants in detention centres in Liby...
Sep 07, 2017
British government facing battle to pass key Brexit bill
LONDON - With 18 months until Britain is due to leave the European Union, the U.K. government warned lawmakers on Thursday that it would be “reckless” to oppose a key piece of Brexit legis...
Sep 07, 2017
South Sudan asks US to reconsider sanctions on top officials
JOHANNESBURG - South Sudan says it is asking the United States to reconsider the sanctions it has imposed on two senior government members, a former official and three companies. Foreign ministry spok...
Sep 07, 2017
Israel PM bars Al-Jazeera journalist from free press seminar
JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has personally intervened to bar an Al-Jazeera journalist from a government conference on press freedoms that uses the pan-Arab broadcaster as a c...
Sep 07, 2017
France's Macron to outline EU vision as he arrives in Greece
ATHENS, Greece - French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Greece Thursday for a two-day visit during which he was expected to outline his vision for the future of the European Union and discuss Gre...
Sep 07, 2017
Ex-Manson disciple must get past governor to see freedom
CHINO, Calif. - Getting the approval of a parole panel was the easy part for Leslie Van Houten, the youngest of Charles Manson’s murderous followers. Between her and her release stands a governo...
Sep 07, 2017
More warnings issued about pineapple products in Alberta, B.C., and Saskatchewan
EDMONTON- Alberta Health Services has expanded the warning about hepatitis A in packaged pineapple chunks to include more fruit products sold in 58 stores in B.C. and Alberta. Both AHS and the B.C. Ce...
Sep 07, 2017
Rachael Ray's Hamptons home on market for $4.9 million
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. - Author and Emmy-winning celebrity cook Rachael Ray has listed her home in the Hamptons for sale for nearly $5 million. Newsday (http://nwsdy.li/2wKvQGX ) reports the 49-year-old Gl...
Sep 07, 2017
Teen takes credit for red 'It' balloons tied to sewer grates
LITITZ, Pa. - A girl says she and her friends are behind the red balloons found tied to sewer grates in a small Pennsylvania town, not a homicidal clown. Seventeen-year-old Peyton Reiff tells PennLive...
Sep 07, 2017
Winnipeg woman convicted of hiding remains of babies files appeal
WINNIPEG - A Manitoba woman is appealing her conviction for hiding the remains of six babies she conceived over many years in a rented storage locker. Andrea Giesbrecht, 43, was sentenced in July to 8...
Sep 07, 2017