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Austria plans to convert or demolish house Hitler was born in | Reuters

VIENNA Austria plans to convert and possibly tear down the house Hitler was born in to prevent it becoming a pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis, the Interior Ministry said on Monday.Austria had already ordered the compulsory purchase of the building in Braunau am Inn, a town on the border with Germany where Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889.Now a committee of experts including historians, officials and the head of Austria's main Jewish organisation has recommended that a "thorough architectural rearrangement" be carried out, and Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka intends to follow their suggestion, a spokesman for the minister said.Austrian newspaper Die Presse, which first reported the decision, said the house would be torn down."A new building will be erected," Die Presse quoted Sobotka as saying. "The house will then be used by the community either for charitable or official purposes." A spokesman for Sobotka said that might involve tearing the building down."A demolition is one possibility," the spokesman said, adding that the aim was for the building to "not be recognisable"

Pakistan lifts travel ban for journalist but warns media | Reuters

By Amjad Ali | ISLAMABAD ISLAMABAD Pakistan on Friday lifted a travel ban on a prominent journalist over an article he wrote about an alleged rift between the country's government and powerful military, but sternly warned media against publishing reports against the national interest.The Interior Ministry said Cyril Almeida, a leading columnist and assistant editor of the Dawn newspaper, was being removed from the Exit Control List as a "good-will gesture" but an inquiry into the "inaccurate and fabricated" article would continue. The military's press wing issued a separate statement calling the article a "breach of national security".Almeida declined to comment.Dawn, Pakistan's most respected English-language daily, has said it stands by the Oct

Judge orders search of new Clinton emails for release by September 13 | Reuters

Obama's TPP deal won't get Senate vote this year: McConnell | Reuters

Obama's TPP deal won't get Senate vote this year: McConnell | Reuters

Trump campaign manager Manafort resigns after troubled stretch | Reuters

IS pulls families out of towns in Syrian north | Reuters

Trump says campaign chairman Manafort resigns | Reuters

German minister says nothing to regret about report alleging Turkey a hub for Islamists | Reuters

Kuwait arrests Filipina accused of pledging allegiance to Islamic State, planning attack | Reuters

DUBAI Kuwaiti authorities have arrested a Filipina accused of pledging allegiance to Islamic State and planning to launch an attack in the Gulf Arab state, the official news agency KUNA reported on Friday. The woman, born in 1984, entered Kuwait in June as a housemaid and has been in contact with Islamic State's affiliate in Libya, the interior ministry said in a statement published by KUNA