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• 3M to pay $9.1 million over defective military ear plugs
• China sacks top official over vaccine scandal, firm may de-list
• Yazidi 'ex-sex slave' trapped both in Iraq and in German exile
• US threatens more sanctions, keeping alive Turkish crisis
• Xiamen Air passenger jet skids off runway in Manila, no casualties
• Questions arise as Trump pulls ex-CIA director's security clearance
• Chinese plane skids off Manila runway in downpour, all safe
• Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul, leaves behind an astonishing net worth
• Vatican expresses 'shame and sorrow' over abuse of 1,000 children by more than 300 priests in Pennsylvania

3M to pay $9.1 million over defective military ear plugs Posted: 17 Aug 2018 10:43 AM PDT The 3M Co. has agreed to pay $9.1 million to settle allegations it knowingly sold defective combat ear plugs to the U.S. military without disclosing defects that limited the effectiveness of the hearing protection devices, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday. A settlement frees 3M from the inconvenience of a long investigation and litigation, it said. The 3M payment settles allegations that 3M and its predecessor, Aearo Technologies Inc., knew the ear plugs it sold the military were too short for proper insertion into the users' ears and could loosen and not perform effectively in some people, the Justice Department said. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

China sacks top official over vaccine scandal, firm may de-list Posted: 17 Aug 2018 08:11 AM PDT China has sacked a senior provincial official and is probing a former top drug regulator after a safety scandal at vaccine maker Changsheng Biotechnology Co Ltd, which again warned it could be delisted over the scandal. The company was accused in July of falsifying data for a rabies vaccine and manufacturing an ineffective vaccine for babies, sparking widespread consumer anger. While there were no known reports of people being harmed by the vaccines, regulators ordered Changsheng to halt their production and recall the rabies vaccine. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Yazidi 'ex-sex slave' trapped both in Iraq and in German exile Posted: 17 Aug 2018 07:17 AM PDT A young Yazidi woman who fled to Germany but returned home to northern Iraq says she cannot escape her Islamic State group captor who held her as a sex slave for three months. Ashwaq Haji, 19, says she ran into the man in a German supermarket in February. Traumatised by the encounter, she returned to Iraq the following month. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

US threatens more sanctions, keeping alive Turkish crisis Posted: 17 Aug 2018 04:11 AM PDT ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey and the United States exchanged new threats of sanctions Friday, keeping alive a diplomatic and financial crisis that is threatening the economic stability of the NATO country. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Xiamen Air passenger jet skids off runway in Manila, no casualties Posted: 17 Aug 2018 01:29 AM PDT A passenger plane operated by China's Xiamen Air veered off a rain-soaked runway after landing at Manila's main airport, disrupting flight schedules on Friday due to a temporary runway closure, officials said. All 157 passengers and eight crew aboard the Boeing 737-800 were unharmed, according to the airline and airport authorities in the Philippines' capital. Images of the plane operated by Xiamen Air, a subsidiary of China Southern Airlines, showed it next to an airport perimeter fence with the left wing touching the ground. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Questions arise as Trump pulls ex-CIA director's security clearance Posted: 16 Aug 2018 08:53 PM PDT In an interview, Trump appears to contradict the White House's explanation for revoking John Brennan's security clearance. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Chinese plane skids off Manila runway in downpour, all safe Posted: 16 Aug 2018 07:45 PM PDT MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A plane from China skidded off a runway at Manila's airport while landing in a downpour and its 157 passengers and eight crew members evacuated safely by the emergency slides. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul, leaves behind an astonishing net worth Posted: 16 Aug 2018 05:47 PM PDT Aretha Franklin, the 'Queen of Soul,' has passed away at the age of 76.

Vatican expresses 'shame and sorrow' over abuse of 1,000 children by more than 300 priests in Pennsylvania Posted: 16 Aug 2018 03:12 PM PDT The Vatican has expressed "shame and sorrow" in its first response to a groundbreaking US Grand Jury report detailing decades of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. The report accuses over 300 "predator" priests throughout Pennsylvania of abusing nearly 1,000 children — and the Church of conducting a systematic cover-up. "We believe that the real number of children whose records were lost or who were afraid ever to come forward is in the thousands," the grand jury noted in its lengthy report. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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