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French President Emmanuel Macron has warned that France is headed towards a “civil war” if his party does not win the upcoming parliamentary elections.After a bruising defeat by Marine Le Pen’s conservative National Rally party during the European elections earlier this month, Macron called snap parliamentary elections.Both National Rally and the far-left France Unbowed are riding high in the polls and could hold a parliamentary majority if the election goes their way.

WASHINGTON - Three members of an elite Navy SEAL team conducting operations in Iraq have been charged with several crimes in connection with detainee abuses that included at least two deaths, Navy officials announced Friday, bringing the total number of SEAL team members from the same unit charged with such crimes to seven.

Aug. 17, 2003, 12:24AM Doctor decapitated by faulty elevator at St. Joseph Hospital By PEGGY O'HARE •Doctor was driven by compassion for indigent Hitoshi Nikaidoh An aspiring missionary doctor, who was voted by medical school classmates as the epitome of a good physician, was killed Saturday at Christus St. Joseph Hospital when an elevator malfunctioned, decapitating him, authorities said. Hitoshi Nikaidoh, 35, of Dallas, a surgical resident at the hospital at 1919 La Branch, was stepping onto a second-floor elevator in the main building around 9:30 a.m. when the doors closed, pinning his shoulders, said Harold Jordan, an investigator with...

EPA Issuance of Report Stings the Boss 2002-06-06 SOME folks at the Environmental Protection Agency better get their resumes in order. Showing up your boss is never a good idea -- especially when that boss is president of the United States. That's what happened when a controversial global-warming assessment, apparently based on some very bad science, hit the agency's Web site late last week. The U.S. Climate Action Report 2002 seemed to reverse the Bush administration's previous global warming stance. It pointed to a clear human role in the accumulation of atmosphere-warming greenhouse gases. It also embarrassed President Bush. The...