Friday, April 29, 2016

World news in one minute: Find out what happened around the world on 28 April

GOP 2016-WORLD ON TRUMP — He's become one of the most closely scrutinized people on earth, but nobody really knows what a President Donald Trump would mean for world at large, foreign officials and analysts admit. 

TRUMP TOWER-SUSPICIOUS POWDER — An envelope containing a suspicious white powdery substance caused a scare when it was opened at a campaign office of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, but it later was deemed to be harmless. 

SYRIA — Airstrikes and artillery in the past 24 hours kill more than 60 people in Aleppo, including dozens at a hospital flattened by bombs. Aid agencies warn that Aleppo is on the brink of a humanitarian disaster as a two-month cease-fire collapses and peace talks stall. 

ISRAEL-ANNEXED GOLAN? — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sparks a new diplomatic brushfire by declaring that the Golan Heights, seized from Syria in the 1967 war, is and should remain sovereign Israeli territory. 

AFGHANISTAN-HOSPITAL ATTACK — Some 16 U.S. military personnel, including one general officer, are disciplined for mistakes that led to the bombing of a civilian hospital in Afghanistan last year that killed 42 people. 

SAN BERNARDINO ATTACK — The brother of one of the San Bernardino shooters is arrested with two other family members in Southern California in what prosecutors say was a marriage scheme to bring one of them to the United States. 

HOUSE-WOMEN IN DRAFT — American women would be required to register for the military draft under a House committee's bill that comes just months after the Defense Department lifted all gender-based restrictions on front-line combat units. 

AMAZON-PRIME NATION — Amazon has been investing heavily in its $99 annual Prime loyalty program, which now offers groceries, instant deliveries, streaming video and other perks. They payoff? About 50 million subscribers, and a nation increasingly reliant on the e-commerce powerhouse. 

PRINCE-MUSIC VAULT — Hardcore Prince fans hope to someday hear the Holy Grail of the legend's music: unreleased recordings from the Paisley Park vault. Who will control and curate and care for all of it?



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