| By Bethel Habte (@bethel_habte)
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said President Barack Obama floated the idea of joint action with Turkey to capture Raqqa from Islamic State. The Syrian city is the militant organization’s makeshift capital. Turkey would be willing to do it, Erdogan said. "We stated that would not be a problem from our perspective. We said, 'Let our soldiers come together, whatever is necessary will be done'," the Turkish president said, adding that a specific Turkish role would depend on further talks.
The tut-tutting of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte continues a day after he pledged to call President Obama a “son of a bitch.” Duterte made the remark about Obama while explaining that he didn’t want to be lectured over the drug war he’s waged since taking office. But now, the Philippines government is scrambling to repair its relationship with Washington as it tries to forge a united front against China’s expansion in the South China Sea. One official noted that Duterte was new to national leadership having served only as a city mayor before his presidency. "He is maybe feeling his way into the new job," the official said.
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Around the country - More updates from the campaign trail (only two months left): Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump invoked religion, talked of unifying Americans and tried to raise doubts about whether Democratic rival Hillary Clinton can be trusted in a new campaign stump speech. Clinton blasted Trump’s past bankruptcies and his refusal to release his tax records.
- A Native American tribe in North Dakota that’s trying to block construction of a pipeline across land they consider sacred is ''disappointed'' with an agreement to halt construction at some sites until Friday, according to the tribe’s attorney. Leaders also say that women and children were met with violence in initial protests.
Around the world - Syrian government helicopters dropped barrel bombs containing chlorine on the Sukari neighborhood in eastern Aleppo, according to the Syrian Civil Defence, a rescue workers organization that operates in rebel-held areas. A video showed wheezing children using oxygen masks to breathe. The Syrian government has denied prior accusations of using chemical weapons. The United Nations and Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons reported two other instances of chlorine gas attacks, one in 2014 and one in 2015.
- Austria’s threatening to sue Hungary if it refuses to take back migrants who had crossed their shared border. Both countries are facing internal pressure from far-right blocs that want to stave the flow of migrants and limit the number of asylum requests they accept. Meanwhile, Hungary is charging a Hungarian camera woman from a news channel with nationalist sympathies for tripping and kicking migrants fleeing from the police last year.
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A woman loyal to the Houthi movement holds a rifle as she takes part in a parade to show support to the movement in Sanaa. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
Around Wall Street - Today’s the day. Apple is expected to announce its latest and greatest device at 1 p.m. ET. But many are already expecting to be disappointed by this year’s iPhone, and are planning to hold out for the next generation.
- World stocks hit year-highs as expectations of a rise in Federal Reserve interest rates receded after weak U.S. economic data.
- But San Francisco Fed President John Williams said it "makes sense to get back to a pace of gradual rate increases, preferably sooner rather than later." Williams also said central banks’ policy of targeting inflation doesn’t work well in a world where economic growth and interest rates are likely to be persistently lower than they were in the era before the Great Recession.
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