John Heilprin

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In this picture taken Saturday June 21, 2104, hikers take a rest on the Alvier mountain in the Swiss Alps near Truebbach , Switzerland. (AP Photo/Keystone,Arno Balzarini)

Swiss urge glacier hikers to look for artifacts

John Heilprin · June 23, 2014 2:54 pm

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 30, 2010 file photo, an event display shows the activity during a high-energy collision at the CMS control room of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, at their headquarter outside Geneva, Switzerland. The world's largest atom smasher is gearing up for its second three-year run after 16 months of maintenance and upgrades. The Large Hadron Collider, which was used to discover a long-theorized subatomic particle, is designed to push the proton beam close to the speed of light, whizzing 11,000 times a second around a 17-mile (27-kilometer) tunnel on the Swiss-French border near Geneva. The world's top particle physics lab known by its French acronym CERN said Monday, June 23, 2014, that the $10 billion collider is being improved and is on track to resume early next year at double its former energy level.(AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)

Famed atom smasher gets twice the energy next year

John Heilprin · June 23, 2014 2:12 pm

A woman washes clothing at a camp for internally displaced Afghans on World Refugee Day in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, June 20, 2014. The plight of millions of refugees everywhere is marked Friday on World Refugee Day. The United Nations refugee agency says that at the end of last year, more than 50 million people have been forced from their homes worldwide, the highest figure of displaced since World War II. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

A look at countries generating the most refugees

John Heilprin · June 20, 2014 6:54 pm

UN: Spike in Eritreans fleeing human rights abuses

UN: Spike in Eritreans fleeing human rights abuses

John Heilprin · June 19, 2014 4:54 pm

Iraqi federal policemen watch as Shiite tribal fighters deploy with their weapons in the northwest Baghdad's Shula neighborhood, Iraq, Monday, June 16, 2014. Sunni militants captured a key northern Iraqi town along the highway to Syria early on Monday, compounding the woes of Iraq's Shiite-led government a week after it lost a vast swath of territory to the insurgents in the country's north. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

UN panel: Syria, Iraq edging into regional war

John Heilprin · June 17, 2014 2:38 pm

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses the audience during the celebration of the 50. anniversary of the establishment of the UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development), at the European headquarters of the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, June 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Keystone,Salvatore Di Nolfi)

UN chief warns of massive sectarian Iraq violence

John Heilprin · June 17, 2014 11:29 am

Shiite tribal fighters raise their weapons and chant slogans against the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 16, 2014. Sunni militants captured a key northern Iraqi town along the highway to Syria early on Monday, compounding the woes of Iraq's Shiite-led government a week after it lost a vast swath of territory to the insurgents in the country's north. (AP Photo/Nabil Al-Jurani)

UN calls Iraq reports almost certain war crimes

John Heilprin · June 16, 2014 5:14 pm

In this still image posted on a militant Twitter account on Wednesday, June 11, 2014, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, militants parade down a main road in Mosul, Iraq. Iraqi officials say al-Qaida-inspired militants who this week seized much of the country's Sunni heartland have pushed into an ethnically mixed province northeast of Baghdad, capturing two towns there.(AP Photo/militant source via Twitter)

UN warns of war crimes, atrocities in Iraq

John Heilprin · June 13, 2014 5:11 pm

Oil company, group agree on Congo park plan

Oil company, group agree on Congo park plan

John Heilprin · June 11, 2014 1:49 am

FILE - In this Aug. 1, 2007 file photo police watches neo-Nazis during national holiday celebrations on the Ruetli meadow above lake Lucerne in Switzerland. Switzerland's top court has ruled Wednesday, May 21, 2014, that a Nazi salute isn't illegal racial discrimination provided it's intended as a personal statement. The Federal Tribunal's ruling, entitled "Hitler salute in public not always punishable," says the gesture is a crime only if someone is using it to try to spread racist ideology to others, not simply declaring one's own conviction. (AP Photo/Keystone, Alessandro Della Bella, File)

Swiss court: Nazi salute ‘not always punishable’

John Heilprin · May 21, 2014 3:33 pm

FILE - In this April 27, 2014 file picture Swiss flags fly at the entrance of of Swiss bank Credit Suisse in Zurich, Switzerland.E uropean bank Credit Suisse AG pleaded guilty Monday May 19, 2014 to helping wealthy Americans avoid paying taxes through secret offshore accounts and agreed to pay about US $2.6 billion. The Justice Department said it was the largest penalty imposed in any criminal tax case. Credit Suisee is the largest bank to plead guilty in more than 20 years. (AP Photo/Keystone,Patrick B. Kraemer)

Swiss relieved Credit Suisse probe in US is over

John Heilprin · May 20, 2014 5:38 pm

UN report: 21 million in forced labor worldwide

John Heilprin · May 20, 2014 4:20 pm