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Why Influx Of Migrants Could Be A Good Thing For Europe

2:30pm September 11, 2015

One argument holds that migrants arriving in Europe is good for countries with an aging labor force and vast government debt. Steve Inskeep talks to Oliver August of The Economist about this idea.

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Senate Democrats Block Measure To Reject Iran Nuclear Deal

2:15pm September 11, 2015

by Ailsa Chang

The Senate blocked a measure to reject the Iran nuclear deal Thursday. Meanwhile, the House is working on a parallel, but separate, legislative track to voice Republican opposition to the Iran deal.

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Top Intelligence Officials Warn Against Growing Threat Of Cyberattacks

2:15pm September 11, 2015

by David Welna

The leaders of the U.S. intelligence community convened on Capitol Hill Thursday to discuss worldwide cyber security threats. They said the problem is only getting worse.

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Critics Charge Europe's Asylum System Encourages Chaos

2:05pm September 11, 2015

by Eleanor Beardsley

In Austria, a group of lawyers has set up a stand at Vienna's rail station to try to help refugees. But the lawyers say they can't do much because Europe's refugee system is so dysfunctional.

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Peter Robinson (center) resigned as Northern Ireland's first minister, along with several other ministers from his party.

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Northern Ireland's Government Teeters On Collapse After Resignations

12:59pm September 11, 2015

by Bill Chappell

Leading ministers resigned in a political crisis that has deepened along with allegations of the Provisional Irish Republican Army's role in a murder.

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At Least 22 People Remain Missing After Flooding In Japan

12:01pm September 11, 2015

by Mark Katkov

Nearly a million people are covered by a government evacuation order. The weather service is warning of more severe weather to the north.

Zainab Abbas, husband Ahmed Hadi Jawad and their surviving daughter, Rawan, show photos of 10-year-old Zainab and 9-year-old Haider. The two children perished after a wave swept over their boat crossing the Aegean last week — the same boat carrying 3-ye

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Iraqi Boat Family Warns Others: Don't Risk It, It's Too Dangerous

11:57am September 11, 2015

by Alice Fordham

An Iraqi family returns home and tells the story of risking a trip to Greece on a boat that sank, drowning two of their children. But images of people making the trip safely encourage others to try.

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Camerawoman Petra Laszlo trips a migrant holding a young boy as he tries to run past a police collection point in Hungary. "I'm not a heartless, racist, children-kicking camerawoman," Laszlo later said.

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Camerawoman Who Tripped Migrant In Hungary Apologizes

10:15am September 11, 2015

by Bill Chappell

Petra Laszlo, who was caught on video sticking her leg out as a man ran from police while clutching a child to his chest, says she is sorry — and not "heartless."

U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert, seen here greeting U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in May, was attacked during a breakfast function in March.

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South Korean Man Who Slashed U.S. Ambassador Gets 12-Year Sentence

10:07am September 11, 2015

by Bill Chappell

U.S. Ambassador Mark Lippert was at a performing arts center in Seoul preparing to give a speech on relations between the U.S. and the two Koreas when he was attacked.

A Marine Corps F-35B Joint Strike Fighter does a short takeoff (STOVL) from Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md., in 2011. Eighteen years after development began, a version of the plane designed for the Marine Corps is expected to be deemed

Marine Version Of F-35 Deemed 'Combat Ready'

9:42am September 11, 2015

by Scott Neuman

With a total program cost estimated at $400 billion and a per-plane price tag of $135 million, the Joint Strike Fighter program is considered the most expensive in U.S. history.