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Morning Brief Aug. 31: Kerry on terror, Modi saves cameraman, Shahid Kapoor and Donald Trump

From John Kerry refusing to distinguish between good and bad terrorists to PM Modi saving a cameraman's life, here are some stories to get your day started.

Aug 31, 2016

Indo-US Dialogue: We won't make any distinctions between good and bad terrorists, says Kerry

Swaraj and Kerry brought up Pakistan and said that nations should not maintain double standards

Aug 30, 2016

Barack Obama is to expand Hawaiian marine reserve four-fold

President Barack Obama will dramatically expand the PapahÄnaumokuÄkea Marine National Monument off the coast of Hawaii on 26 August, an action that will ban commercial fishing from more than 582,500 sq miles of the Pacific Ocean. The four-fold boost in territory will cover an area with more than 7,000 marine species, including a coral that is the worlds oldest-known living organism at 4,265 years old.

Aug 26, 2016

Italy earthquake: Death toll rises to 247, over 200 aftershocks hamper rescue efforts

Around 4,300 rescue workers worked through the night to pull out survivors from under the rubble of collapsed buildings.

Aug 25, 2016

Nigel Farage joins Donald Trump on stage to rally supporters in Mississippi

Nigel Farage offered his support and advice for supporters of the Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, drawing on similarities between Brexit and Trumps campaign. Farage said he believes that Trump represented the same type of anti-establishment movement that the masterminded.

Aug 25, 2016

PM Modi's controversial suit enters Guinness Records as most expensive suit ever sold

The suit that had Modi's name monogrammed as pinstripes in gold was bought by a diamond merchant at an auction for Rs. 4,31,31,311.

Aug 20, 2016

Donald Trump releases first campaign advert

Donald Trump has released his first campaign advert, which claims in Hillary Clintons America the systems stays rigged against Americans. It goes on to claim Trumps America is secure.

Aug 19, 2016

[Representational Image] Cuba: Pope Francis meets Fidel Castro during visit to communist country

Fidel Castro thanks well-wishers at gala to mark his 90th birthday

Many Cubans still revere Castro, who built a Communist state on the doorstep of the U.S., for introducing universal, free healthcare and education.

Aug 14, 2016

Shah Rukh Khan has a history of run-ins with US airport authorities

Shah Rukh Khan has been detained a couple of times earlier by U.S. airport authorities, only to be released soon.

Aug 12, 2016

'Raees' actor Shah Rukh Khan detained at Los Angeles airport; Twitterati goes crazy

The U.S. State Department's Assistant Secretary on South and Central Asian Affairs Nisha Biswal apologised to the actor.

Aug 12, 2016

Syrian civil war: Aleppo doctors appeal to Obama for help as Russia offers aid window

Doctors urged in a letter that if attacks on hospitals and other medical facilities continued, there would be nothing left in Aleppo within a month.

Aug 11, 2016

US Presidential Election 2016: Donald Trump claims Obama founded Isis

During a campaign rally in Florida, he also claimed Hillary had co-founded Isis.

Aug 11, 2016

Twitter divided as Sasha Obama gets summer job at seafood restaurant

Obama's daughter has done what most teens in the US do, but there seems to be no dearth of opinion on it.

Aug 7, 2016

Hiroshima Day: On 71st anniversary, the world says 'never again' [PHOTOS]

The attack, and the subsequent one in Nagasaki in Japan, has left a deep scar in the memory of the country and the world.

Aug 6, 2016

Japan remembers Hiroshima, urges world to follow Obama and visit

The United States dropped the bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, killing thousands of people instantly and about 140,000 by the end of that year.