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A 26-year-old Moroccan identified as Ayoub El-Khazzani, has been named by police as the Kalashnikov-wielding man who was subdued by passengers aboard a high-speed train on Saturday.

The storm, downgraded from a Category 3 hurricane to a tropical storm over the course of Saturday, is expected to continue to lose steam as it heads toward the the eastern Caribbean.

Hours before the deadline set by North Korean for Seoul to halt propaganda broadcasts across the border, the two sides said they would meet face-to-face at the border village of Panmunjom.

An Air Force serviceman, a U.S. National Guardsman and a Sacramento State University student brought down the gunman. One was slashed several times with a box cutter and remains in the hospital.

The Italian coast guard, assisted by a Norwegian vessel, has already rescued 1,200 migrants from a flotilla of vessels off the coast of Libya.

The Hawker Hunter fighter jet, long out of service with the royal air force and navy, failed to complete an acrobatic loop and plowed into the A27 at West Sussex.

Most of the dead were Afghan civilians and scores more were wounded in the attack on a convoy. The Taliban have denied any responsibility.