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| Bible left in North Korean sailor's club triggered U.S. tourist's arrest | | Saturday, August 02, 2014 3:10 AM | |
|  By James Pearson SEOUL (Reuters) - American tourist Jeffrey Fowle was arrested by North Korean authorities for leaving a bible under a bin in the toilet at a club for foreign sailors, a source familiar with Fowle's case told Reuters. During his ten day trip to North Korea, Fowle's fellow travellers described the middle-aged street repairs worker from Miamisburg, Ohio as a warm, amiable, quiet man. On May 4, towards the end of an evening spent eating and drinking in Chongjin, a large industrial city on North Korea's east coast, Fowle's action led to him being thrown in jail, where he is awaiting trial in one of the world's most inhospitable countries. He was arrested three days later at the airport where he was due to board a flight out of North Korea.
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| U.S. House passes border-security funding bill to speed deportations | | Saturday, August 02, 2014 3:07 AM | |
|  By David Lawder and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives voted on Friday to crack down on Central American migrants, including unaccompanied children, who are flooding to the U.S. border with Mexico, as lawmakers passed a $694 million border security bill. The 223-189 vote came one day after conservative Republicans balked at an earlier version of the measure, exposing a deep rift between Tea Party activists and more mainstream Republicans. In passing the retooled bill, the Republican-led House ignored a veto threat from the White House. "We couldn't go home (for recess) and not have a decision," said Representative Kay Granger of Texas, who helped draft the original bill.
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| U.S. Congress approves $225 million for Israeli 'Iron Dome' system | | Saturday, August 02, 2014 2:45 AM | |
|  The U.S. Congress approved $225 million in emergency funding for Israel's "Iron Dome" missile defense system on Friday, sending the measure to President Barack Obama to be signed into law. The House of Representatives approved the funding by a 395-8 vote late on Friday, several hours after the Senate passed it unanimously. The money would be used to replenish Israel's arsenal of Iron Dome interceptor missiles, many of which have been used to shoot down short-range rockets fired from Gaza into populated areas of Israel in the current three-week-long conflict. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on whether Obama would sign the legislation.
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| U.S. tourists detained in North Korea ask U.S. to help free them - APTV | | Saturday, August 02, 2014 2:18 AM | |
| | Two U.S. tourists being held in North Korea have called on the U.S. government to help secure their release from the isolated country, in an interview with the Associated Press Television Network. North Korea has said Matthew Miller and Jeffrey Fowle, held since early May, would be put on trial for crimes against the state. "I am now requesting help from the American government, the citizens of America and the world to release me from this situation," Miller, 24, from Bakersfield, California, said in the interview, recorded in Pyongyang on Friday. It was not clear if the interview was given in the presence of North Korean government officials. |
| Area in front of White House reopened after being cleared | | Saturday, August 02, 2014 1:38 AM | |
| | U.S. Park Police and Secret Service officers reopened an area in front of the White House on Friday evening after briefly closing it due to an unattended package that had been left in front of the presidential building, according to a Reuters eyewitness. At around 8 p.m., officers moved pedestrians away from Pennsylvania Avenue, the street in front of the White House, and Lafayette Park, which faces the building. A package that looked like a small black backpack had been left near the railings that separate the White House grounds from the street, the witness reported. |
| Putin opponent sought by Russia released from custody in Bulgaria | | Saturday, August 02, 2014 1:34 AM | |
|  A prominent opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin who was detained in Sofia following an extradition request from Moscow was released on Friday by a Bulgarian court on condition he does not leave the country. Nicolay Koblyakov had been held for 72 hours after being detained at Sofia airport. He is wanted by Russia on suspicion of fraud between 2004 and 2005. The Sofia City Court, however, said Koblyakov's actions can not be classified as fraud, or any crime, under Bulgarian law, adding that this could be a reason for a future denial of Russia's request for extradition.
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