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Saudi women register to vote for the first time ever
Saudi politics is set to shift as women are allowed to vote and run for office in the conservative Muslim kingdom.
Bangkok bomb: Two suspects hand themselves in
Two men identified as suspects in the Bangkok bombing have handed themselves in to police, insisting they are tour guides, authorities say.
They were seen in security camera footage before Monday's blast at the Erawan Shrine, which killed 20 people.
The men, in red and white T-shirts, rose from a bench shortly before the main suspect, in yellow, sat down and left behind his backpack.
Police told the BBC they believe the man in yellow is still in Thailand.
Dozens of people were injured in the explosion, with some losing limbs.
Macedonia declares 'state of emergency' queues of migrants in no-man's land
The Macedonia-Greece border has been sealed to prevent thousands of refugees from crossing. Skopje declares emergency and drafts in military to help with crisis.
Macedonia declared a "state of emergency" Thursday and said it would mobilize the army to control an unprecedented influx of migrants from crossing its border from Greece. The move reverses previously lax border controls as thousands of refugees continue to arrive.
"Due to an increasing pressure on the southern border... it is estimated that bigger and more efficient control is needed in the region where illegal border crossings from the Greek side have been massively registered," the government statement said, the AFP news agency reported.
Tianjin blast: 'Why not just tell people the truth?'
August 20, 2015 - 4:43PMPhilip Wen
China correspondent for Fairfax Media
Tianjin: Surveying the scale of destruction in and around his apartment, Wang Jiaming is under no illusions about what would have happened had he been home when the fiery explosions erupted at a chemical warehouse in Tianjin.
"I would have been sleeping right there," he says, nodding toward a bed right next to the window, strewn with shards of glass and metal debris.
He points to a wall where glass fragments are embedded in the wall from the sheer force of the blast.
"Look at the shards of glass - they were like flying daggers through the air," he says. "I would have lost my neck."
South Korea says it exchanged fire with North at border
Updated 1059 GMT (1759 HKT) August 20, 2015
In an escalation of the tense situation in the region, North and South Korea exchanged fire over their heavily fortified border on Thursday, the South Korean Defense Ministry said.
South Korea detected a projectile, assumed to be a small rocket, that was fired toward the western province of Gyeonggi, a South Korean Defense Ministry official told CNN.
The South Korean military responded by firing a few dozen shells at the area from which the North Korean projectile was fired, the official said.
Saudi women register to vote for the first time ever
Saudi politics is set to shift as women are allowed to vote and run for office in the conservative Muslim kingdom.
Women in Saudi Arabia are registering to vote in nationwide local elections for the first time in the history of the country.
Women will also be able to run for office in December's election.
The first two women to receive their voter cards were Jamal Al-Saadi and Safinaz Abu Al-Shamat, the Saudi Gazzette reported.
“The participation of the Saudi women in the municipal elections as voters and candidates was a dream for us,” Saadi said. “The move will enable Saudi women to have a say in the process of the decision-making.”Western Wildfires: Three Firefighters Killed After Crash in 'Hellstorm'
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Already waging a furious battle against wildfires, heavy-hearted investigators on Thursday will try to figure out what went wrong when three firefighters were killed in Washington state.
The firefighters, who worked for the U.S. Forest Service, were killed after their vehicle crashed and apparently was overtaken by flames. They were trying to control a blaze that broke out Wednesday afternoon and spread quickly and erratically, driven by wind and feeding on drought-parched land.
The three were not immediately identified, and there was no immediate word on what caused the crash or what equipment the firefighters had to protect themselves from the fast-moving blaze.
The firefighters were killed near the tiny town of Twisp, about 30 miles south of the Canadian border, which was quickly evacuated.
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