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Donald Trump Tries to Clarify Immigration Plan, but Avoids Key Issue
The New York Times - 28 Aug 2016 02:21
Mr. Trump said he would remove illegal immigrants who committed crimes, but he sidestepped what to do about the millions of others in the country.
N. Korea threatens to fire at truce village holding US, S. Korea troops
Fox News - 28 Aug 2016 07:00
North Korea on Saturday threatened to aim fire at the lighting equipment used by "provocative" American and South Korean troops at a truce village inside the Demilitarized Zone that divides the two Koreas.
Clinton Foundation Official Requests State Lunch Favors, Emails Show
ABC News - 28 Aug 2016 02:34
State Department emails were obtained by ABC News.
Iraq requests new Saudi envoy after assassination remarks
Miami Herald - 28 Aug 2016 14:31
Iraq's Foreign Ministry has requested that the Saudi ambassador in Baghdad be replaced after he claimed that Iranian-backed Shiite militias are plotting to assassinate him. …
UK leader May, Cabinet to chart EU exit at Chequers retreat
Miami Herald - 28 Aug 2016 14:27
British Prime Minister Theresa May is bringing her Cabinet together at her rural retreat to plot Britain's first steps on leaving the European Union. …
Mining leader, 2 others, accused in Bolivia official's death
Miami Herald - 28 Aug 2016 02:51
Authorities in Bolivia say they have accused the president of a mining federation and two of his top officials for the killing of deputy interior minister Rodolfo Illanes amid a bitter strike. Forty miners have been deta...
Locally transmitted Zika virus infects 41 in Singapore
Miami Herald - 28 Aug 2016 14:47
More than 40 people have been infected locally by the Zika virus in Singapore, but most have fully recovered, officials said Sunday. …
Uzbekistan's longtime ruler Islam Karimov hospitalized
Fox News - 28 Aug 2016 15:28
Uzbekistan's government has issued an unusual statement announcing the hospitalization of President Islam Karimov, who has ruled the former Soviet republic in Central Asia for more than 25 years.
It's 'digital heroin': How screens turn kids into psychotic junkies
New York Post - 28 Aug 2016 01:54
Susan* bought her 6-year-old son John an iPad when he was in first grade. "I thought 'why not let him get a jump on things?' " she told me during a therapy session. John's school had begun using the devices with younger ...
UK alert on treacherous beach ends as swimmer turns up safe
Miami Herald - 28 Aug 2016 14:52
British emergency services have called off the search for a missing swimmer on the same treacherous beach where five men drowned days ago — after the swimmer telephoned to say she was fine. …
Filipino militants free 8 comrades, 15 others in jail attack
Miami Herald - 28 Aug 2016 06:11
Muslim extremists supporting the Islamic State group have freed eight fellow militants in a daring attack that also allowed 15 other inmates to escape from a provincial jail in the southern Philippines. …
State burial in Poland for WWII heroes slain by communists
Fox News - 28 Aug 2016 15:34
A state burial in Poland has been held for two World War II heroes who fought the Germans but were later killed by the communists for their pro-independence activity.
Iran confirms arrest of member of negotiation team with West
Fox News - 28 Aug 2016 15:27
Iran's official news agency is saying the country's judiciary has confirmed the brief detention of a member of Iran's negotiation team with world powers on suspicion of "infiltration." Earlier on Wednesday, hard-line new...
Serbia, Bosnian Serbs hold joint anti-terrorism drill
Fox News - 28 Aug 2016 15:21
Police from Serbia and the Serb mini-state in Bosnia have held a joint anti-terrorism drill that could add to simmering tensions in the Balkans stemming from the 1990s war.
Italy investigates quake buildings, checking for code fraud
Miami Herald - 28 Aug 2016 14:47
Bulldozers with huge claws pulled down dangerously overhanging ledges Sunday in Italy's quake-devastated town of Amatrice as investigators worked to figure out if negligence or fraud in building codes had added to the qu...
Sheriff: Suspect confesses in killings of 2 nuns in Mississippi
CBSNews - 28 Aug 2016 07:57
Rodney Earl Sanders arrested and charged in the deaths of two 68-year-old nuns
Kurds square off against Turkey-backed rebels in latest Syria conflict
Fox News - 28 Aug 2016 07:00
Backed by Turkish tanks and reports of airstrikes, Turkey-allied Syrian rebels clashed with Kurdish-led forces in northeastern Syria in a new escalation that further complicates the already protracted Syrian conflict.
$3m found in Volkswagen trunk
CNN - 28 Aug 2016 03:30
Border Patrol agents in California hit a jackpot this week in terms of cash seizures: $3 million.
Bongo aims to extend 50-year family rule in Gabon election
Reuters - 28 Aug 2016 02:45
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737 engine explodes during flight
CNN - 28 Aug 2016 02:11
A Southwest Airlines flight from New Orleans to Orlando was forced to make an emergency landing when one of the engines failed, the airline said.
Man detained after stabbing picnicking couple in Germany
Fox News - 28 Aug 2016 15:23
Police say a 26-year-old man has been detained after stabbing a picnicking couple in western Germany.
Fukushima's surfers riding on radioactive waves
Al Jazeera English - 28 Aug 2016 15:11
"We will only know the true consequences of our time in the water 20 years from now."