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Families' fury over China blast missing

Furious, frustrated and fearful, relatives of the missing in giant explosions in Tianjin besieged officials Saturday demanding answers on their loved ones’ fates – only for security to intervene instead. Three days after vast explosions lit up the night sky and left scenes of utter devastation across an industrial zone in the northern Chinese city — and scores dead — a father said he had yet to hear from his

U.S. military looks into moving some Guantanamo detainees to military sites: media

The U.S. Department of Defense is sending a team to military installations in Kansas and South Carolina to investigate the possibility of relocating some Guantanamo Bay prisoners to U.S. soil, media outlets reported on Saturday. Fox News and CNN said the Pentagon on Friday notified the U.S. Congress that the team was already visiting the disciplinary barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and would then survey the naval brig at Charleston,

New Orleans Walmart evacuated, armed suspects inside

(Reuters) – A New Orleans Walmart store was evacuated on Saturday as a police SWAT team responded to an armed robbery, police said. “Armed robbery suspects believed to be inside,” the New Orleans Police Department said on its Twitter feed. Local media said there were no reports of shots being fired. (Reporting by Jon Herskovitz and Letitia Stein)