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| South, North Korea officials to meet in bid to ease tension | |  By Ju-min Park and Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - Top aides to the leaders of North and South Korea will meet at the Panmunjom truce village straddling their border on Saturday, the South said, raising hopes for an end to a standoff that put the two sides on the brink of armed conflict. The meeting is due to take place half an hour after North Korea's previously set ultimatum demanding that the South halt its loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts along the border or face military action. South Korean President Park Geun-hye's national security adviser and her unification minister will meet with Hwang Pyong So, the top military aide to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and an senior official who handles inter-Korean affairs at 6 p.m. Seoul time (0900), the Blue House said.
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| Gunman slays guard at NYC federal building, kills himself | | | A gunman shot and killed a security guard at a federal building in Lower Manhattan on Friday before killing himself, and investigators are seeking a motive, police said. The suspect entered the building just after 5 p.m. (2100 GMT) and immediately shot the guard with a handgun, police said. Police identified the gunman as Kevin Downing, a 68-year-old former federal employee from Fort Lee, New Jersey. |
| Venezuela declares state of emergency along Colombia border | |  Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro on Friday declared a state of emergency along parts of the border with Colombia to restore order after a clash between smugglers and troops left three soldiers wounded. The measure will remain in effect for 60 days in five municipalities of the Venezuelan state of Tachira, where smugglers of gasoline and subsidized food products have increasingly clashed with security forces. "This decree provides ample power to civil and military authorities to restore peace," he said in a ceremony broadcast on state television.
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| U.S. soldier wounded helping to overpower gunman on train in France | |  By Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) - A machine gun-toting attacker wounded three people on a high-speed train in France on Friday before being overpowered by passengers who included an American soldier. Officials said the attacker was arrested after the shooting when the Amsterdam-to-Paris train stopped at Arras station in northern France. French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the French anti-terrorism prosecutor was investigating the incident and that the gunman's motives were not known.
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| Brazil judge asks for investigation of Rousseff re-election campaign | |  The vice president of Brazil's TSE electoral authority on Friday asked for an investigation of President Dilma Rousseff's 2014 re-election campaign, citing evidence that it may have been financed with money from a corruption scheme at state-run oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA . In a document sent to federal prosecutors and federal police, Gilmar Mendes said a 17-month-old investigation into a massive price fixing and political kickback scandal had found evidence that Rousseff's Workers' Party was indirectly funded by money stolen from Petrobras, as the firm is known.
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| Public plazas in New York's Times Square bring business, chaos | | | By Daniel Bases NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City's Times Square is notorious for its fast talkers, street walkers and con-men mingling among artists scrounging tips from tourists who gawk at themselves on jumbo video screens or take selfies with accommodating cops on horses. Much of the action takes place in pedestrian plazas carved into Broadway, souvenirs of former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's efforts in 2009 to make parts of the city more accessible to the public. It all contributes to a boom in Time Square's retail business and billboard advertising, plus fewer traffic accidents. |
| Apple defends Dr Dre after he apologies to 'women I've hurt' | |  By Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Apple Inc. came to the defence of rapper and Beats co-founder Dr Dre on Friday following his apology "to the women I've hurt" as reports of his past altercations with women resurfaced around the release of N.W.A. biopic "Straight Outta Compton." Apple, which acquired Dr Dre's headphone and music streaming company Beats Electronics last year for $3 billion and made Dre an executive, said the company believed in the rapper's sincerity. "Dre has apologised for the mistakes he's made in the past and he's said that he's not the same person that he was 25 years ago," Apple said in a statement to Reuters. "After working with him for a year and a half, we have every reason to believe that he has changed." Dr Dre, 50, a founding member of Compton rap collective N.W.A., the subject of Universal Pictures' box office hit "Straight Outta Compton," apologised for his actions from 25 years ago, which included an incident with female presenter Dee Barnes.
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| Obama praises U.S. service members' action on French train - White House | | Friday, August 21, 2015 11:41 PM | |
|  President Barack Obama expressed his gratitude on Friday for the "courage and quick thinking" of the passengers on a high-speed train in France, including U.S. service members, who overpowered a gunman. French authorities said the machine gun-toting attacker wounded three people on the Paris-bound train before being overpowered by passengers who included an American soldier. "The President expressed his profound gratitude for the courage and quick thinking of several passengers, including U.S. service members, who selflessly subdued the attacker," the White House said in a statement.
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