The stories we’re following in the Grasswire Newsroom, Friday, March 31, 2017
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SYRIA EXCLUSIVE Coalition says engineers checked Syria’s Tabqa dam for IS booby traps
SYRIA EXCLUSIVE Coalition disputes reports a US service member was killed by an IS drone in Syria
SYRIA We continue fine-grained reporting on events around the Tabqa dam here
USA Portion of Interstate 85 collapses near Atlanta, Georgia
REFUGEES The number of Syrian refugees in the region tops five million
SYRIA Up to 5,000 people flee to SDF-controlled areas north of Tabqa dam, near Raqqa
SYRIA Finding a convoy of US military vehicles in Syria from a March 28 video
As it happened
BREAKING: Police chief: Malaysia allowed 3 North Koreans sought in Kim Jong Nam case to leave after getting their statements.
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 31, 2017
#BREAKING At least six people are killed and 50 wounded when a bomb tears through a market in a mainly Shiite area in Pakistan's north-west
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) March 31, 2017
Israel approved establishment of a new West Bank settlement for the first time 2 decades. https://t.co/Dfsw1ndrp7 pic.twitter.com/hklIrF9ZOa
— New York Times World (@nytimesworld) March 31, 2017