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PHILADELPHIA (AP) ? The Latest on the U.S. Justice Department's investigation into child sexual abuse in the Pennsylvania Catholic Church (all times local): #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 19th October 2018 at 00:46 (about 8 hours ago)
Gaza's Islamist rulers Hamas on Thursday pledged to launch an investigation into rocket fire at Israel the previous day, in an apparent bid to calm fears of a new war. Israeli children returned to schools near the border with the Palestinian territory that had been closed on Wednesday after the pre-dawn rocket fire from Gaza badly damaged a family home in the southern city of Beersheba. Hamas, which has ruled Gaza for a decade, issued a joint statement with its ally Islamic Jihad publicly disavowing the rocket fire. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 19th October 2018 at 00:46 (about 8 hours ago)
Germany's Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said he would delay a decision on whether to go through with a planned visit to Saudi Arabia until Riyadh had given more clarity on the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Maas said the trip, which had been intended as part of a push to repair strained relations with the desert kingdom, made no sense in the context of concerns over the fate of Khashoggi, whom Turkish authorities believe was murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. "We had planned a visit in the context of the dialogue with Saudi Arabia. #
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? A high-level meeting on security plans for Afghanistan's parliamentary elections had just concluded when an elite Afghan guard turned his gun on the departing delegation Thursday, killing the powerful Kandahar police chief but missing the top U.S. commander in the country, Gen. Scott Miller. #
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?They had a problem, but she?s fine,? Trump said in an interview on Fox Business News. The plane had a "minor mechanical issue," after the plane took off for Philadelphia, the first lady's spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham, said in an emailed statement. Trump was scheduled to visit the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital there and meet with families affected by prenatal opioid use as part of her "Be Best" campaign. #
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WASHINGTON ? After Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin announced that he was #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 18th October 2018 at 23:16 (about 10 hours ago)
Donald Trump, the US president, has threatened to close the US-Mexico border and deploy the military unless a large convoy of migrants was stopped. Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state, is travelling to Mexico City and expected on Friday to meet Mexico?s president, Enrique Pena Nieto, to discuss the situation, as Mexico scrambles to dissuade the migrants from entering its territory. By Thursday the convoy, which set out from the violent Honduras city of San Pedro Sula on Saturday and is now believed to be around 3,000 people strong, was moving up towards the Guatemala-Mexico border city of Tapachula. Central Americans have free passage within their region, but crossing into Mexico they are required to present a visa. Mexico has sent two Boeing 727s carrying federal forces and riot police to Tapachula, in readiness for the caravan?s arrival. Manelich Castilla Craviotto, commissioner of the federal police, said they were sent to guarantee calm and security at the border crossing, and ensure that human rights were respected. Migrants move through Guatemala, towards the border with Mexico Schools in Tapachula were closed on Thursday and around 200 demonstrators from Pueblo Sin Frontera, which organised a similar caravan in April, took to the streets to demand the United Nations intervene and protect the right to seek asylum. But both the US and Mexico are working to convince the migrants to turn back. Mr Trump tweeted: "I must, in the strongest of terms, ask Mexico to stop this onslaught - and if unable to do so I will call up the U.S. Military and CLOSE OUR SOUTHERN BORDER!" He added that the issue was more important to him than the new trade deal with Mexico, brought in to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement pact. "The assault on our country at our Southern Border, including the Criminal elements and DRUGS pouring in, is far more important to me, as President, than Trade or the USMCA,? he said. ?Hopefully Mexico will stop this onslaught at their Northern Border." Honduran children, fleeing poverty and violence, move north. The caravan is now close to the border with Mexico Earlier in the week Mr Trump threatened to cut off US aid to Honduras, worth $66 million (£50m) for 2019, unless they halted the caravan. By then it was already in Guatemala. Mexico's ambassador to Guatemala, Luis Manuel Lopez Moreno, met with leaders of the caravan on Wednesday and warned them that Hondurans caught without papers in Mexico would be deported. Luis Arreaga, the US ambassador to Guatemala, also posted a video message on Twitter to migrants thinking of entering the United States illegally. "If you try to enter the United States, you will be detained and deported," he said in Spanish. "Return to your country. Your attempt to migrate will fail." #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 18th October 2018 at 23:16 (about 10 hours ago)
SAP, Europe's most valuable tech company, will continue to do business in Saudi Arabia, a top executive told Reuters, saying he hoped the circumstances of the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi are clarified. "We can't put a long-term commitment to a market into question in response to an isolated incident," Chief Financial Officer Luka Mucic told Reuters. "Having said that, I would hope that this case can be cleared up as soon as possible." Mucic had not been planning to attend a conference in Saudi Arabia next week that has been hit by high-profile cancellations amid concerns that Khashoggi, a columnist for the Washington Post, was murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. #
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Zachary Meadors had a warrant out for his arrest at the time of his death. #
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Stretching almost 2,000 miles (3,200 km), the U.S.-Mexican border is one of the busiest in the world, processing thousands of commuters daily and much of the half a trillion dollars of annual trade between Mexico and the United States. "I must, in the strongest of terms, ask Mexico to stop this onslaught - and if unable to do so I will call up the U.S. Military and CLOSE OUR SOUTHERN BORDER!" Trump wrote on Twitter. Several thousand Honduran migrants moved this week through Guatemala, and some were trying to cross to Mexico on Thursday, local media said. #