PLANNED PARENTHOOD SHOOTING

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado — A gunman who opened fire inside a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic is arrested after engaging in gun battles with authorities during an hours-long standoff that killed three people and wounded nine others, officials say. 

CANADA MIGRANTS FAMILY

TORONTO — The aunt of a Syrian boy whose lifeless body was photographed on a Turkish beach, sparking worldwide outrage at the refugee crisis, says she hopes her family members will be in Canada by Christmas. Tima Kurdi said Canada has approved her application to bring her brother Mohammed and his family to Canada, but that security checks are still underway. 

CARIBBEAN-PESTICIDE POISONING

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Nine months after a vacationing family nearly died from exposure to methyl bromide on St. John, authorities have come to at least one troubling conclusion: The use of the banned pesticide was not an isolated event in U.S. Caribbean territories. 

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CUBA-ECUADOR-VISA

HAVANA — Hundreds of Cubans confront police and Ecuadoran Embassy officials in an unusual display of public discontent after the announcement of a visa requirement aimed at choking off a flood of Cubans across South and Central America to the U.S. border with Mexico.