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Qatar And Saudi Arabia Take Their Feud To The Airwaves, Internet

4:43pm July 31, 2017

by Jackie Northam

Saudi Arabia and Qatar have ramped up their lobbying efforts to gain international support in their 2-month-old feud. That includes TV attack ads, and flooding online media sites with competing messages.

Security forces respond at the site of an attack on the Iraqi Embassy in Kabul. The Islamic State has claimed responsibility.

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ISIS Claims Responsibility For Attack On Iraqi Embassy In Afghanistan

4:19pm July 31, 2017

by Scott Neuman

The Islamic State says its fighters carried out the attack on the embassy compound in Kabul, which began with a bomb explosion at the gates and ended with an hours-long gunbattle.

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Dutch Police Bust Gang That Allegedly Snatched iPhones From Moving Trucks

2:06pm July 31, 2017

by Scott Neuman

Authorities say five men were arrested after one heist, but are thought to be responsible for some 17 such highway burglaries.

Kim Hak-min, 30, is an electrical engineering student at Sogang University who fixes iPhones as a side business.

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How Steve Jobs Helped This North Korean Defector 'Think Different'

1:26pm July 31, 2017

by Elise Hu

When Kim Hak-min got to South Korea, he saw his first-ever smartphone, the iPhone 4. It changed his life trajectory.

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In Search Of Love, Too Many Messages In The Bottles

5:43am July 31, 2017

A widower put messages inside hundreds of glass bottles. But when they started washing up on Britain's shores, a littering backlash forced him to stop. Still, he says several women have been in touch.

U.S. Condemns Venezuela Vote As 'Sham Election'

5:43am July 31, 2017

Violence has broken out in Venezuela as people went to the polls to vote on a new constitutional assembly endowing President Nicolas Maduro's ruling socialist party with virtually unlimited powers. Electoral authorities say 8 million people participated, while opposition leaders claim that number is much lower. The U.S. has joined other nations saying it won't recognize the results. U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley tweeted, the "sham election is another step toward dictatorship."

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A U.S.-Russia Low Point After U.S. Diplomats Expelled

5:43am July 31, 2017

The former diplomat who coordinated U.S. sanctions against Russia weighs in on the current low point in U.S.-Russia relations after the Kremlin orders more than 700 U.S. diplomats to leave the country and seizes diplomatic properties.

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Morning News Brief: A New White House Chief Of Staff, Russia Expels U.S. Diplomats

5:21am July 31, 2017

by Tamara Keith

President Trump's new chief of staff is sworn in today, Russia expels hundreds of American diplomats and Venezuelans vote on their country's future.

Members of Argentina's Venezuelan community protest against the election for a constituent assembly on Sunday, in Buenos Aires, as Venezuela holds the controversial vote.

Several Countries Reject Venezuela's Election To Rewrite Constitution

11:43pm July 30, 2017

by Emma Bowman

The controversial vote has culminated in more violence between protesters and police, with at least 10 deaths Sunday. Opposition activists see the election as a power grab by President Nicolas Maduro.

A view of the newly-erected wind turbine on Tilos, Greece, part of a microgrid that, along with a solar park and a renewable battery system, will power the island.

Why Greece Has Been Slow To Embrace Clean Energy

9:09pm July 30, 2017

by Joanna Kakissis

With its famed sunshine and sea winds, Greece should be a clean energy hub. But it's been slow to abandon coal and embrace renewable energy. That's changing on one small island.

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