CALAIS, FRANCE A green light Thursday from a French court sets in motion the evacuation of a large swath of a sprawling migrant camp in Calais where thousands dream of getting to Britain, with promises of a progressive and humane process in what could be a slow death for the windswept outpost. But sceptics say […]

TOKYO Japan’s latest census confirmed the hard reality long ago signaled by shuttered shops and abandoned villages across the country: the population is shrinking. Japan’s population stood at 127.1 million last fall, down 0.7 percent from 128.1 million in 2010, according to results of the 2015 census, released Friday. The 947,000 decline in the population […]

ATHENS, Greece Greece’s government on Friday ordered authorities on islands near Turkey to reduce the number of migrants allowed to travel by ferry to the mainland, where thousands of people are stranded in increasingly desperate conditions following border closures in the countries to the north. Ferry companies and regional authorities were handed the instructions as […]

ALASKA Alice Tanaka Hikido clearly remembers the bewilderment and sense of violation she felt 74 years ago when FBI agents rifled through her family’s Juneau home, then arrested her father before he was sent to Japanese internment camps, including a little-known camp in pre-statehood Alaska. The 83-year-old Campbell, California, woman recently attended a ceremony where […]

ANKARA, Turkey Two journalists imprisoned for their reports on alleged government arms smuggling to Syria were released from jail early on Friday hours after Turkey’s highest court ruled that their rights were violated. A large group of supporters greeted Cumhuriyet newspaper’s editor-in-chief Can Dundar and the paper’s Ankara representative, Erdem Gul, as they emerged from […]

RIO DE JANEIRO As the clock ticks down to the start of the Summer Olympics, the residents of a Rio de Janeiro shantytown are battling to save what remains of their neighborhood from demolition by the city government. Dozens of activists resisting a court order gathered Thursday in a house in the favela known as […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. A funeral home says Elvis Presley’s former personal doctor has died. Memorial Park Funeral Home in Memphis said in an obituary posted on its website that 88-year-old George C. Nichopoulos died Wednesday. Known as “Dr. Nick,” Nichopoulos was Presley’s doctor for 11 years before the singer’s death from heart disease on Aug. 16, […]