Abandoned town, reactor building lure hundreds of visitors a week to site of 1986 disasterCHERNOBYL, Ukraine (AP) ― For the visitor, Chernobyl makes heavy demands on the imagination ― much of what’s important can be seen only in the mind’s eye.From the outside, the building where a reactor blew up April 26, 1986, in the world’s worst nuclear disaster mostly looks like an ordinary, dull industrial

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Cairo (AP) ― Egyptian prosecutors ordered the detention of the former president’s powerful sons for 15 days allegations of corruption and the abuse of their authority are investigated, state television said early Wednesday.The move, the most dramatic in a series of investigations against top regime officials, comes just hours after former President Hosni Mubarak, 82, was hospitali

Detentions authorized as part of inquiry into use of force against protestersCAIRO (AFP) -- Egypt’s ex-president Hosni Mubarak has been placed in detention for 15 days, prosecutors said Wednesday shortly after state media reported his two sons had also been detained.In a statement on the public prosecutor’s Facebook page, a spokesman said the prosecutor Abdel Maguid Mahmoud authorized the detentio

 

PARIS (AP)– A woman has been ticketed in a suburban Paris shopping center for wearing a face veil, in the first reported sanction under a new ban on the garments, police said Tuesday.Another woman in another Paris suburb was stopped for wearing a veil, but was let go with a warning.The inconsistent response illustrates the challenge for towns with a large Muslim community in enforcing a law that s