Kerry tries to ease concerns over deal

Kerry tries to ease concerns over deal

DOHA, Qatar

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Qatar talks with Arab officials whose countries are wary of the nuclear deal world powers have struck with Iran.

Kerry arrived in the Qatari capital Sunday after visiting Egypt, where he also spoke in favor of the agreement reached with Iran last month in Vienna. The Sunni-ruled Gulf Arab states fear Shiite Iran’s increasing assertiveness in the region. In Cairo, Kerry acknowledged Iran’s negative role but said it would be easier to deal with if Tehran cannot develop a nuclear weapon.

Kerry’s meetings with the foreign ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council in Doha today are a follow-up on a May meeting that President Barack Obama hosted for Arab leaders at Camp David at which the U.S. promised them enhanced security cooperation and expedited defense sales to guard against a potential Iranian threat.

1 killed as tent falls during brief storm

chicago

One person was killed and 20 injured Sunday when a tent where people had sought shelter during a brief storm blew off its moorings and collapsed on some of the crowd at a festival in a Chicago suburb.

Mike Rivas, deputy police chief in the suburb of Wood Dale, said three people were seriously injured and 17 others had minor injuries and were either treated at the scene or transported to area hospitals.

Malaysia seeks help to find more debris

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia

Malaysian officials said Sunday they would seek help from territories near the island where a suspected piece of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet was discovered to try to find more plane debris.

A new piece of debris, meanwhile, found Sunday on the French island of Reunion in the western Indian Ocean turned out to be a “domestic ladder” and doesn’t belong to a plane, Malaysian Director General of Civil Aviation Azharuddin Abdul Rahman told The Associated Press amid media reports that a new plane part was found.

Some picky eating signals inner woes

CHICAGO

Parents of picky eaters take heart: New research suggests the problem rarely is worth fretting over, although in a small portion of kids it may signal emotional troubles that should be checked out.

Preschool-age children who are extremely selective about what they eat and dislike even being near certain foods are more likely than others to have underlying anxiety or depression, the study found. But only 3 percent of young children studied were that picky.

Less-severe pickiness, dubbed “moderate selected eating” in the study, was found in about 18 percent of kids. These are children who will eat only a narrow range of foods. Kids with either level of pickiness were almost two times more likely than others to develop anxiety symptoms within two years, the study found.

Marist suspends presidential polling

WASHINGTON

As candidates jostle to make the cut for the first Republican presidential debate this week, the McClatchy-Marist Poll has temporarily suspended polling on primary voter choices out of concern that public polls are being misused to decide who will be in and who will be excluded.

The Marist Institute for Public Opinion, which conducts the national survey, said the debate criteria assume too much precision in polls in drawing a line between candidates just a small fraction apart, presume that the national polls being averaged are comparable, and turn the media sponsoring most of the polls from analysts to participants.

Combined dispatches