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There's been a breakthrough in emergency peace talks on the Korean Peninsula - South Korea has agreed to halt cross-border propaganda broadcasts, after the North reportedly agreed to express "regret" over the landmine blast that seriously injured two soldiers in the South.  Seoul fired up its high powered speaker array on the border for the broadcasts in retaliation for the mine incident, and the North responded by firing artillery at it last week.  Both countries are also agreeing to try to resume reunions for families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War.

The Dow closed more than 580 points down - a loss of more than 3.5 percent - as the market panic over China's slowing economy fully circled the globe.  London's FTSE 100 index closed down 4.6 percent at 5,898.87.  Major markets in France and Germany down by 5.5 percent and 4.96 percent, respectively.

Prosecutors will reportedly drop the most serious charges against one of the teens arrested in the alleged ANZAC Day Plot to attack and behead people in Australia.  His lawyer says terrorism charges will be dropped against 18-year old Harun Causevic, but a weapons charge will remain.  Prosecutors will have the option of trying to convince the court to keep Causevic in custody instead of granted bail on the lesser charge.

The United Nations cultural heritage agency says the destruction of the Temple of Baalshamin at Palmyra, Syria by Islamic State terrorists is a war crime.  Unesco released a statement saying it was "an immense loss for the Syrian people and for humanity".  The militants took control of the ancient site of well preserved Roman ruins in May, used the amphitheater for beheadings, and executed the elderly archeologist who spent decades managing the site earlier this month.

Israeli authorities charged an ultra-Orthodox man with murder for stabbing a 16-year-old girl to death and wounding five others at Jerusalem's Gay Pride parade.  39-year old Yishai Schlissel railed against homosexuality in the courtroom.  Witnesses captured the 30 July attack on mobile cameras, which happened just three weeks after Schlissel was released from prison for an earlier, similar attack.

Nepal imposed a curfew after eight police officers were killed in rioting by people opposing a new constitution.  Officials say the protesters had encircled the cops, and attacked with spear and axes.  The protesters say that reorganizing the country into a federal state with seven provinces will lead to increased discrimination against historically marginalised communities.

Mountain guides in Ecuador found three bodies on the Chimborazo volcano over the weekend, and hope that forensic tests will determine of the remains are those of some French climbers who died in an avalanche in 1994.  The bodies were still wearing their backpacks.  A camera found nearby might yield clues about their identity and what happened to them.

French President Francois Hollande presented the Legion d'honneur to three Americans and a Brit who stopped a terrorist attack on a commuter train last week.  Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos, Anthony Sadler, and Briton Chris Norman earned the ceremony at the Elysee Palace for stopping and restraining a suspected radical Islamist.  Two more people involved in the take down, one French and other other French-American, will be honored at a later date.