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United States

Man who found Hitler's hat dies

The New York man whose story of finding Adolf Hitler's top hat at the end of World War II was told in a 2003 documentary film has died. Richard Marowitz was 88. His son, Larry, said he died on Wednesday in Albany, New York. Marowitz was a 19-year-old US army scout on April 30, 1945, when he found a black silk top hat with "A.H." in the lining while searching Hitler's Munich apartment.

Tot in White House scare

A toddler squeezed through the White House gates in Washington, DC, on Thursday, causing a brief security lockdown on Pennsylvania Avenue. "We were going to wait until he learned to talk to question him, but in lieu of that he got a timeout and was sent on his way with his parents," Secret Service spokesman Edwin Donovan said in a statement.

Brazil

Rival seems to be gaining

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff would win re-election in a likely second-round run-off in October, but challenger Aecio Neves has narrowed her lead, a new poll by the IBOPE polling institute showed on Thursday. Voter support for leftist Rousseff ahead of the Oct 5 election was unchanged at 38 percent, while center-right Neves gained one point to 23 percent since a previous poll in July, IBOPE said.

Romania

Politician gets 10 years

The founding leader of Romania's ruling Conservative Party Dan Voiculescu received on Friday a 10-year sentence at the Bucharest Court of Appeal in a major corruption case involving the privatization of a state agricultural institute. The value of the case of the privatization of the Institute of Food Research in Bucharest comes to over 60 million euros ($78 million), according to the Romanian National Anti-corruption Department, which sued Voiculescu.

Kenya

UN: Food aid direly needed

Three years since extreme drought devastated eastern Africa, a continuing lack of rain and multiple conflicts in the region have put over 14 million people in need of food aid, the United Nations said on Friday. "The situation is very worrisome," said Matthew Conway, spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs for Eastern Africa. "There are similarities to the situation that we saw leading up to the 2011 crisis," he said, adding that the UN is appealing for $2.6 billion in aid.

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