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'Economist' Correspondent Spends Time On Migrant Rescue Ship

7:05am October 28, 2016

Emma Hogan spent five days aboard a migrant rescue ship in the central Mediterranean. She kept a reporter's diary of that week, and talks to Renee Montagne about the experience.

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Wallonia leader Paul Magnette speaks to the media Wednesday prior to a meeting with Belgium's leaders. Wallonia objected to parts of a major European Union-Canada trade deal that was seven years in the making. But Magnette said Thursday he was willing acc

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The Walloons Pack A Wallop As Canada, Europe Agree To Tweak A Trade Deal

4:52pm October 27, 2016

by Jackie Northam

A major trade deal between Canada and the European Union hit a snag when the tiny Belgian region of Wallonia raised objections. But after winning concessions, the Walloons say they're now on board.

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Traveling Exhibit Shows What It's Like To Be A Refugee

7:25am October 27, 2016

by Nurith Aizenman

A Doctors Without Borders exhibit leads visitors through a simulation during which they're crowded onto a tiny boat and led through stifling hot tents and makeshift latrines.

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Italians Decry Rome's Invasion Of McDonald's And Cheap Souvenir Shops

7:25am October 27, 2016

by Sylvia Poggioli

Some intellectuals have written a letter to the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural organization bemoaning the siege of fast-food joints that have replaced Rome's workshops and bookstores.

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Wallonia's premier, Paul Magnette, (center) leaves Tuesday after talks at Belgium's Foreign Ministry on the trade agreement between the European Union and Canada. All 29 governments involved support the deal, which has been seven years in the making, but

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29 Countries Want A Trade Deal — And Wallonia Is Still Blocking It

3:43pm October 26, 2016

by Jackie Northam

Thursday was to be signing day for a major trade pact between Canada and the European Union. But Belgium's small Wallonia region remains opposed.

Central Rome's Piazza Navona is seen reflected in a heart-shaped balloon in 2014. The arrival of a McDonald's near the piazza has horrified some Romans.

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Italian Intellectuals Appeal To UNESCO For Help With 'Siege' By McDonald's

1:01pm October 26, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

Rome is under attack — by fast food joints, cheap souvenir shops and pubs, an open letter says. The "barbarism" has led hopeless Romans to beg the U.N. agency for help preserving cultural landmarks.

A migrant holds onto a rope during a rescue operation some eight nautical miles off Libya's Mediterranean coastline earlier this month.

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U.N. Says 2016 Will Be Deadliest Year Ever For Migrants Crossing The Mediterranean

8:30pm October 25, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

That's despite far fewer people making the treacherous passage. The U.N. says smugglers set people off on mass embarkations on "flimsy inflatable rafts that often do not make the journey."

Novelist Paul Beatty Is First American To Win Britain's Man Booker Prize

7:40pm October 25, 2016

by Lynn Neary

Beatty won for The Sellout, a satire hailed as hilarious about the fraught subject of race in the U.S. The competition was opened recently to any author writing in English and published in the U.K.

A reconstruction of the head of Paranthropus boisei, based on a skull found at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, in 1959 by Mary Leakey. Initial analysis of the skull and fossilized teeth led scientists to think this ancestor ate nuts. More advanced analysis in la

Dental Detectives: What Fossil Teeth Reveal About Ancestral Human Diets

3:03pm October 25, 2016

by Erin Ross

From the thickness of tooth enamel to the molecular signatures on a tooth left behind by foods eaten by a human, fossil teeth hold many clues to the diets of our ancestors.

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France Begins Clearing Out Migrant Camp In Calais

6:40pm October 24, 2016

by Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

France began clearing the sprawling migrant camp in the northern city of Calais on Monday. The camp, known as "The Jungle," has been home to more than 6,500 migrants who have fled war and poverty. France plans to resettle the migrants in 450 centers around the country.

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