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On-Air Ambush: TV crew's killing unfolds in real time

Saturday, 29 August 2015, 20:34 Last update: about 12 years ago Associated Press

The on-air shooting deaths of Virginia TV reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward and the suicide five hours later of gunman Vester Flanagan played out in a sort of surreal time, spilling from...

France: European countries to increase checks on trains

Saturday, 29 August 2015, 18:36 Last update: about 12 years ago Associated Press

France's interior minister says European countries will increase ID checks and baggage checks on trains after American passengers thwarted an attack on a high-speed train from Amsterdam to...

In Alaska, Obama to walk fine line on climate change, energy

Saturday, 29 August 2015, 18:09 Last update: about 12 years ago Associated Press

President Barack Obama will visit Alaska beginning Monday to press for urgent global action on climate change, with melting glaciers and rising seas as his backdrop. Yet he'll have to carefully...

Attack draws new scrutiny to railways linking open Europe

Saturday, 29 August 2015, 11:25 Last update: about 12 years ago Associated Press

Europe's rail system is at the heart of its open borders, a way for passengers to travel on some of the world's fastest and most sophisticated mass transit with no need for passports or even...

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