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‘I felt abandoned.’ Children stolen by France try to find their past, 50 years on

Edit The Guardian 23 Oct 2016
For decades, children from Reunion island in the Indian Ocean were removed to repopulate rural areas of France ... The last time he made this journey was in 1967; he was seven years old and flying in the opposite direction – from Réunion Island, where he was born, to France, where he now lives ... He didn’t want to go to France.” ... The island is a departement, essentially an overseas territory of France....

Episcopal Church Executive Council stands with Standing Rock (Episcopal Church in the United States of America)

Edit Public Technologies 23 Oct 2016
(Source. Episcopal Church in the United States of America). Presiding Bishop Michael Curry preaches Oct ... Gay Clark Jenningslistens ... Photo. Mary Frances Schjonberg/Episcopal News Service ... The Rev ... The Rev ... Photo. Mary Frances Schjonberg/Episcopal News Service ... Photo. Mary Frances Schjonberg/Episcopal News Service ... Photo. Mary Frances Schjonberg/Episcopal News Service ... Mary Frances Schjonberg is an editor and reporter for the Episcopal News Service....

Confusion, worry ahead of migrant camp closure in France

Edit Topix 23 Oct 2016
French authorities say the closure of the slum-like camp in Calais will start on Monday and will last approximately a wee... Volunteer teacher Laurence teach French to migrants in a classroom at a makeshift migrant camp near Calais, France, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016 ... ....

Home Office 'rejected expert help' to check refugees' ages

Edit Belfast Telegraph 23 Oct 2016
Share Go To ... He added. "The offer was not taken up quickly enough ... Screens have since been used to keep the refugees hidden from public view after arriving at a Home Office building in Croydon, south London, from the muddy, rat-infested slum in northern France ... Demolition teams are preparing to move into the Jungle on Monday to clear the estimated 6,500 inhabitants who will be relocated to reception centres across France ... ....

French Socialist party leader says no French socialist likely to win presidential election at moment

Edit Topix 23 Oct 2016
French President Francois Hollande and the first secretary of the French Socialist party, Jean-Christophe Cambadelis attend a symposium on re-founding democracy at the Hotel de Lassay, residence of the National Assembly speaker, in Paris, France,.. ... ....

Anger as ‘panicking’ Home Office puts minors in detention centre

Edit The Guardian 23 Oct 2016
@townsendmark ... Dismantling the vast camp in France will begin on Monday, although its large population of unaccompanied minors will be kept on site, raising hopes that the UK government may be willing to significantly increase the number of child refugees it will allow into Britain ... Rosa Curling, a lawyer at Leigh Day, said ... Buses will began taking the camp’s residents to reception centres across France from Monday morning ... ....

Prince Albert buys Philadelphia home of mom Grace Kelly

Edit Richmond Times Dispatch 23 Oct 2016
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia home where Oscar-winning actress Grace Kelly grew up and accepted a marriage proposal from Prince Rainier III of Monaco in 1955 is now in the hands of the royal family ... He said he was happy to have saved it "from a near certain death or development." ... The city mourned after Princess Grace died in 1982 from injuries she suffered in an automobile crash in France that involved her teenage daughter ... ....

Fan's first trip to Michigan Stadium in 70 years

Edit Detroit Free Press 23 Oct 2016
It’s been roughly 70 years since Don Hawkins, second from the right, has been to Michigan Stadium to watch the Wolverines.(Photo. Kevin Santos) ... ►Related. Live chat during Michigan-Illinois ... Back in 1946, Michigan was the No ... He landed in Glasgow, Scotland, and was stationed across Europe in England, France, Luxembourg, Holland, Germany and Belgium — specifically during the notorious Battle of the Bulge — in the three years that followed....

How Argentina’s gravel-voiced crooner put the soul back into tango for the rap generation

Edit The Guardian 23 Oct 2016
Daniel Melingo who reinvented the music for a young crowd is on his way to the UK ... “But on my father’s side my grandmother sang opera ... Twitter ... “He sings as if he was talking.”. The release of his first solo album in 1998, Tangos Bajos, catapulted Melingo into an international career that surpasses that of any other current Argentinian musical artist, especially in France, where he will be playing the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord ... ....

Business People: Sunday, Oct. 23

Edit Pioneer Press 23 Oct 2016
ADVERTISING/PUBLIC RELATIONS. Tunheim, a Minneapolis-based communications consulting firm, recently announced the addition of new hires Eli Bjerk, Karin Johnson and Mike Frahm. ARCHITECTURE/ENGINEERING ... CONSTRUCTION ... … Knutson Construction, St ... DEVELOPMENT ... FINANCIAL SERVICES ... Healthcare Edition ... HEALTH CARE ... Gateway Bank, Mendota Heights, announced the opening of its second location, at 45th and France on the border of Edina and Minneapolis....

Study Investigates the Impact of Masimo Continuous SpHb® and PVI® on Anesthesia-Related Mortality (Masimo Corporation)

Edit Public Technologies 23 Oct 2016
(Source. Masimo Corporation). CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 22, 2016-- Masimo (NASDAQ ... In the study, researchers at Hôpital Dupuytren, part of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire of Limoges, France (CHU Limoges), investigated the clinical utility of noninvasive, continuous hemoglobin (SpHb) and PVI(a measure of the dynamic changes in perfusion index that occur during the respiratory cycle), two Masimo rainbow SET™ measurements ... #Masimo....

Volunteers fear new migrant camps could follow ‘Jungle’ demolition

Edit Scotsman 22 Oct 2016
Unofficial migrant camps are likely to grow in northern France in the wake of next week’s planned demolition of the "Jungle” shanty-town in Calais, British aid volunteers fear. Bulldozers will move in on the slum on Monday, with the French authorities saying the estimated 6,500 migrants camped there will be relocated to reception centres across France....

American couple pledge $380 million art donation to France

Edit Springfield News-Sun 22 Oct 2016
France's President Francois Hollande is honoring an American couple for pledging the largest foreign collection of art to be donated to France since World War II....
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