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UNDATED (AP) — Austria is rolling back measures that have allowed thousands of migrants to cross the border from Hungary. The Austrian chancellor says the emergency measures will be lifted "step by step" in order to ensure the European Union's external border security, safeguard fair asylum procedures and achieve "a fair distribution of asylum seekers by means of a European quota."
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican will shelter two families of refugees who are "fleeing death" from war or hunger. Pope Francis is also calling on Catholic parishes, convents and monasteries across Europe to do the same. As Francis puts it, "the Gospel calls us to be neighbors to the smallest and most abandoned, to give them concrete hope."
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon says Iraq's air force has gone after the Islamic State group for the first time using F-16 fighter planes bought from the U.S. A Pentagon spokesman is commending Iraq for what he calls "its successful use of this cutting edge aircraft" in the campaign to degrade and defeat the group. Iraq took delivery of the first four F-16s in July, with more to come.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton is campaigning in Iowa over Labor Day weekend. She says she's ready to take on Republican opposition and will press for specifics on immigration proposals by Donald Trump. The former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential candidate said in Cedar Rapids today that "whatever they throw at me, I can throw it right back."
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indianapolis Zoo officials are investigating how a cheetah managed to escape from its enclosure, spurring an hour-long lockdown of zoo guests this morning while staff found and tranquilized the animal. A Zoo spokeswoman says staffers found the cheetah named Pounce lying in an area outside its exhibit but behind a barrier that kept it out of the public space.
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