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• White House summit won't focus solely on IS group

  16-02-2015 21:20
  
  RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) — The White House says this week's summit on countering violent extremism will not focus exclusively on threats from the Islamic State group.
  
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• Israeli election chief puts curbs on Netanyahu speech to Congress

  16-02-2015 20:10
  
  By Luke Baker JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The head of Israel's election commission acted on Monday to limit any pre-election boost Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may get from a March 3 speech to the U.S. Congress, in which he will warn of the threat from Iran's nuclear programme. The speech has caused controversy in Israel and the United States, where Democrats and the White House are angry that the Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner, invited Netanyahu to spe
  
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• Obama’s ‘Crusades’ controversy highlights war on terrorism’s rhetorical minefield

  16-02-2015 18:23
  
  President Barack Obama describes the so-called Islamic State as a “death cult.” But critics want him to label its fighters “Islamist radicals.” Ahead of the White House’s “Countering Violent Extremism” summit, Yahoo News looks at the rhetorical battles in the war on terrorism.
  
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• Israeli election chief puts curbs on Netanyahu's speech to U.S. Congress

  16-02-2015 16:08
  
  By Luke Baker JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The head of Israel's election commission acted on Monday to limit any pre-election boost Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may get from a March 3 speech to the U.S. Congress in which he will warn of the threat from Iran's nuclear programme. The speech has caused controversy in Israel and the United States, where the Democrats and the White House are angry that the Republican speaker, John Boehner, invited Netanyahu to speak at a sensitive time in the
  
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• Egypt Bombs Islamic State Targets In Libya

  16-02-2015 08:26
  
  Egypt's military says it has bombed Islamic State (IS) targets in Libya, a day after the group released a video purporting to show the beheading of 21 Egyptians. A spokesman for the Armed Forces General Command said it was "to avenge the bloodshed and to seek retribution from the killers". "Let those far and near know that Egyptians have a shield that protects them," the statement added. White House spokesman Josh Earnest described the killings as a "despicable and
  
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• White House: Islamic State's 'barbarity knows no bounds'

  16-02-2015 07:31
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is condemning the purported killing of 21 Egyptians by militants in Libya affiliated with the Islamic State group as "despicable" and "cowardly."
  
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• Michelle Obama to visit Japan next month: media

  16-02-2015 06:37
  
  Tokyo (AFP) - US First Lady Michelle Obama is set to visit Japan in March for the first time since her husband Barack Obama entered the White House, local media reported Monday.
  
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• IS Killings Of Egyptian Christians 'Despicable'

  16-02-2015 05:51
  
  The White House has condemned the murder of 21 Coptic Christians following the release of a video which purports to show the Egyptian hostages being beheaded in Libya. Militants linked to Islamic State released the video on Sunday showing handcuffed hostages dressed in orange jumpsuits being murdered by black-clad terrorists. In the video - which is titled "a message signed with blood to the nation of the cross" - the militants are identified as fighters with the Tripoli Province of Is
  
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• White House: IS 'barbarity knows no bounds'

  16-02-2015 05:02
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is condemning the purported killing of 21 Egyptians by militants in Libya affiliated with the Islamic State group as "despicable" and "cowardly."
  
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• White House slams IS Libya 'beheading' of Egyptian Christians

  16-02-2015 04:24
  
  The United States condemned as "despicable" the Islamic State group's apparent beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians in Libya after it released a video claiming to show the killings on Sunday. "The United States condemns the despicable and cowardly murder of twenty-one Egyptian citizens in Libya by ISIL-affiliated terrorists," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said. It is unconstrained by faith, sect, or ethnicity," Earnest added, saying the latest bloodshed "on
  
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• U.S. calls Islamic State killings of Egyptians in Libya 'despicable'

  16-02-2015 03:56
  
  The White House on Sunday condemned the "despicable and cowardly murder" of 21 Egyptians in Libya by Islamic State-affiliated militants and urged a political solution to the conflict in the country. "This wanton killing of innocents is just the most recent of the many vicious acts perpetrated by ISIL-affiliated terrorists against the people of the region, including the murders of dozens of Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai, which only further galvanizes the international community to unite against
  
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• White House: ISIL's 'barbarity knows no bounds'

  16-02-2015 03:50
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is condemning the purported killing of 21 Egyptians by militants in Libya affiliated with the Islamic State group as "despicable" and "cowardly."
  
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