World News Update, What you need to know

World News Update, What you need to know

Ian Burrett hopes he's made his father proud after giving three blasts on a whistle at a commemoration service on the Gallipoli Peninsula.

ELSEWHERE:

PARIS - France is deploying new air and maritime resources off the remote Indian Ocean island of Reunion in the search for more wreckage from the ill-fated MH370 flight.

VIENNA - A wallet lost 70 years ago by an American soldier in Austria during World War II was returned to its rightful owner thanks to a doctor who discovered the item in his late grandfather's farmhouse.

GENEVA - Some 224,000 migrants and refugees have crossed the Mediterranean to Europe so far this year, the United Nations has reported a day after more than 200 people were feared drowned trying to make the perilous journey.

BERLIN - Swiss police say that they have identified the remains of two Japanese climbers who went missing 45 years ago, months after their bones were found on a glacier under the Matterhorn mountain.

NEW YORK - A nearly 300-year-old Stradivarius worth millions of dollars has been returned to the family of its rightful owner after it had been missing for more than 35 years.

WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton and fellow Democrat candidates will square off October 13 in their first debate of the 2016 presidential campaign, the party announced Thursday as it unveiled its primary debate schedule.

BUENOS AIRES - Argentina's former president Carlos Menem and 12 others have gone on trial charged with obstructing the investigation into the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center, which killed 85 people.


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