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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Latest on the U.S. presidential campaign (all times EDT):...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. announced Thursday the first fatality of a wreck involving a car in self-driving mode, the 40-year-old owner of a technology company who nicknamed his vehicle "Tessy" and had praised its sophisticated "Autopilot" system just one month earlier for preventing a collision on an interstate. The government said it is investigating the design and performance of the system aboard the Tesla Model S sedan....
ISTANBUL (AP) -- As the death toll from the Istanbul airport attack rose Thursday to 44, a senior Turkish official said the three suicide bombers who carried it out were from Russia, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, and Turkish police raided Istanbul neighborhoods for suspects linked to the Islamic State group....
(Vatican Radio) Ten women died in a sinking boat packed with forced migrants off the coast of Libya on Thursday, while hundreds of others were rescued by the Italian Coast Guard in two separate operations.Listen to the report by Christopher Wells: The latest deaths at sea came as the wreck of a fishing boat that sank last year with up to 800 people on board was due to arrive at a Sicilian port. The sunken wreck was raised on Wednesday.Nearly 120 bodies have already been recovered from the seabed but hundreds more are believed to be trapped below deck, where survivors said many women and children were locked. Speaking to Vatican Radio Cardinal Antonio Maria Vegliò, President of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Itinerant peoples decried the latest tragedy in the Mediterranean and said unfortunately it will not be the last…Unfortunately, he said, there are still people who continue to not want to tackle the phenomenon of migration, they do not want to ...
(Vatican Radio) Ten women died in a sinking boat packed with forced migrants off the coast of Libya on Thursday, while hundreds of others were rescued by the Italian Coast Guard in two separate operations.
Listen to the report by Christopher Wells:
The latest deaths at sea came as the wreck of a fishing boat that sank last year with up to 800 people on board was due to arrive at a Sicilian port. The sunken wreck was raised on Wednesday.
Nearly 120 bodies have already been recovered from the seabed but hundreds more are believed to be trapped below deck, where survivors said many women and children were locked.
Speaking to Vatican Radio Cardinal Antonio Maria Vegliò, President of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Itinerant peoples decried the latest tragedy in the Mediterranean and said unfortunately it will not be the last…
Unfortunately, he said, there are still people who continue to not want to tackle the phenomenon of migration, they do not want to have to deal with migrants...
And commenting on the fact that the people who are dying in the Mediterranean are people who leave everything and put their lives at risk in pursuit of safety and a dignified future, the Cardinal said he hopes this tragedy will move consciences and that it may speak to European policymakers who are called to respond to the challenge urgently.
(Vatican Radio) Turkish authorities say the three suicide bombers who carried out the deadly attack on Istanbul's main airport were nationals of Russia and other Central Asia nations. The announcement came shortly after the Turkish and Russian presidents spoke each other for the first time in months. Listen to the report by Stefan Bos: Turkish officials said the three men directly involved in Tuesday's deadly attack on Istanbul's main airport were all from parts of the former Soviet Union. One is said to be from Russia's restive North Caucasus region and the others from Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.Tuesday’s gunfire and suicide bombing attack at Ataturk Airport killed 42 people and wounded more than 230 others.The statement came as counter-terror teams reportedly launched 16 simultaneous raids in Istanbul. Turkish police told local media that they detained 13 people, including three foreign nationals, in connection with the attack. Turkish media ...
(Vatican Radio) Turkish authorities say the three suicide bombers who carried out the deadly attack on Istanbul's main airport were nationals of Russia and other Central Asia nations. The announcement came shortly after the Turkish and Russian presidents spoke each other for the first time in months.
Listen to the report by Stefan Bos:
Turkish officials said the three men directly involved in Tuesday's deadly attack on Istanbul's main airport were all from parts of the former Soviet Union. One is said to be from Russia's restive North Caucasus region and the others from Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.
Tuesday’s gunfire and suicide bombing attack at Ataturk Airport killed 42 people and wounded more than 230 others.
The statement came as counter-terror teams reportedly launched 16 simultaneous raids in Istanbul. Turkish police told local media that they detained 13 people, including three foreign nationals, in connection with the attack.
Turkish media said the trio was part of a seven-person cell who entered Turkey on May 25. The assailants raised the suspicion of airport security on the day of the attack because they showed up in winter jackets on a summer day.
SURVIVORS RECALL HORRORS
But that was apparently not enough to prevent the bloodshed, as survivors could testify. "I was in the lounge, I was just changing flights here and I was in the Turkish Airlines lounge and just taking a nap actually and than the blast woke me up it was very very close," recalled survivor Thomas Kemper. "And than the gunfire and the shooting. And first you think you are in a film, but than people started running."
Eyewitness Laurence Cameron, who had just landed from Latvia, had a similar experience. "So as it came out we really saw the full extend of it. [We] walked around the corner into the main terminal, just to see people screaming, running, tripping, police with guns drawn," Cameron explained.
"So I took a few pictures. But than police started to pushing us back, back to the main terminal. And it quickly became clear, that this wasn't a drill or a hoax or anything like that," he added.
Some agencies named one of the men as Osman Vadinov, said to have crossed into Turkey from the Islamic State group stronghold of Raqqa in Syria in 2015. The organizer of the attack has been named by Turkish media as Akhmed Chatayev, a Chechen believed to have acted as a recruiter for the Islamic State group.
He had been on a US counter-terror sanctions list, but his fate was not immediately clear.
OVERSHADOWING PRESIDENTIAL TALKS
IS has long recruited members from mainly Muslim parts of the former Soviet Union with Russian President Vladimir Putin putting the overall number at between 5,000 and 7,000 in October. However security experts say the real number may be roughly 3,500 fighters from these areas.
News that fighters from Russia and other ex-Soviet parts were involved came at a sensitive time. Hours earlier Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan held their first phone call since Ankara downed one of Moscow's jets in Syria last year.
The breakthrough phone call came after the Turkish strongman on Monday sent a letter to Putin that Moscow said contained an apology for the November incident.
Soon after the phone call Putin ordered his government to lift sanctions against Turkey while Erdogan said the call re-prioritized their commitment to fighting terror.
DETROIT (AP) -- The U.S. government is urging owners of 313,000 older Hondas and Acuras to stop driving them and get them repaired after new tests found that their Takata air bag inflators are extremely dangerous....
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A single elevator could have accommodated the donors who recently gathered with Hillary Clinton at the Pritzker family home in Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood. Small in number, the group was big in largesse, contributing at least $1 million to help elect her and other Democrats this fall....
ISTANBUL (AP) -- An adoring father of his four "princesses." A weeping bride-to-be, bent over her fiance's coffin. Two women looking forward to a few days' vacation with their husbands and their infant children. Victims of Tuesday night's attack at Istanbul's main airport have left behind mourning friends and relatives who are now struggling to deal with their loss. Here are some of their stories:...
