MOSCOW / AP Russian news reports say a prominent young chess grandmaster has died after falling from a balcony apparently while undertaking the extreme sport of parkour. The reports cited police as saying 20-year-old Yuri Eliseev died late Saturday after falling from the 12th story of his apartment building in Moscow. Eliseev was the world under-16 chess champion in ...

  Paris / AFP Written off as finished on more than one occasion, Republicans party presidential candidate Alain Juppe is living proof that in French politics death is often temporary. Juppe, 71, who faced Francois Fillon in Sunday’s rightwing primary runoff, has rebounded from what seemed like hopeless lows to have a shot at the presidency. The first major difficulties came ...

  Butig / AFP Troops on Sunday fired artillery at positions held by an extremist faction in the southern Philippines as more soldiers deployed against the group, which staged a deadly bombing in President Rodrigo Duterte’s home city. Troops used 105 mm artillery to blast the positions of the Maute group in the nearly deserted town of Butig in the ...