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Top comedians are on stage at a big comedy festival in Saudi Arabia.

Critics call it whitewashing the kingdom's abysmal human rights record.

They are trying to promote this festival that for me itself is a joke.

I'm Carolyn Beeler.

And I'm Marco Werman. Also today, businesses closing people leaving the country.

President Trump's crackdown and its many impacts on immigrant communities.

I had kids that were not going to school for weeks because their parents were afraid of an ice crackdown at the school.

Plus an update on the Gaza flotilla intercepted by the Israeli military and why four Caribbean

nations are opening their borders to each other.

The quest to improve standard of living is a feature of our economies for decades.

That's all ahead today on the world.

This is the world. I'm Marco Werman.

And I'm Carolyn Buehler. Thank you for joining us on this Thursday.

We start today in Manchester, England, where an attacker killed two people and injured four

others outside of a synagogue filled with worshippers.

Police said they shot and killed the suspect and that they're treating the

incident as an act of terrorism. Today is Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.

British Prime Minister Kyr Starmor cut short a trip to Denmark to put together an emergency

security meeting in London. The world's Europe correspondent, Orla Barry, is following the story.

Details are still emerging, Orl, about what exactly happened today.

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