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| Britain says it close to identifying beheading suspect |
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| By Babak Dehghanpisheh and Eric Beech BAGHDAD/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Britain is close to identifying a suspected British national shown beheading American journalist James Foley in a video released by Islamic State militants last week, the British ambassador to the United States said on Sunday. With Islamic State fighters now in control of vast areas of northern Iraq, the country's president-designate, Haider al-Abadi, used a meeting with the visiting Iranian foreign minister to call for greater international efforts to destroy the Islamist group. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif of Iran, a Shi'ite Muslim power likely to wield influence over the formation of Abadi's new cabinet, reaffirmed Tehran's support for Iraq's territorial unity and its fight against militants. "Abadi pointed to the presence of many dangers posed in the region as a result of the existence of the terrorist gang Islamic State, which requires regional and international efforts to exterminate this terrorist organisation," the Iraqi leader's office said in a statement after the talks with Zarif. |
| UK says is close to identifying Briton suspected of beheading |
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| "We are close" to identifying the man in the video, Westmacott told CNN's "State of the Union" program on Sunday. British authorities are trying to identify the man, who has a London accent and has been dubbed "Jihadi John" by British media. The masked figure beheaded Foley in a video released on Tuesday that also threatened a second captive American journalist, Steven Sotloff. |
| Separatists put Ukrainian captives on show in rebel stronghold |
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 By Thomas Grove and Anton Zverev DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Pro-Russian separatists marched dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war through the eastern rebel stronghold of Donetsk on Sunday in a parade meant to counter Independence Day celebrations in Kiev. Some bandaged, some limping, the men were marched up one of Donetsk's main streets and past the remains of Ukrainian armoured personnel carriers destroyed in battle and put on display in the city's main Lenin Square. For days, separatists have prepared for the march, timed to coincide with Independence Day celebrations and a military parade in Kiev where Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called for solidarity against the rebels. Kiev blames Russia for fanning the conflict by sending fighters and weapons to eastern Ukraine through rebel-held border regions.
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| Italy finds 19 boat migrants dead, saves over 3,500 since Friday - navy |
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| Italy's maritime search and rescue service saved 3,500 migrants and found 19 corpses in the Mediterranean since Friday as thousands attempted to cross to Europe by boat over the weekend, the Italian navy said. Calmer summer seas have led more people to make the perilous crossing this year from North Africa, where a breakdown of order in Libya has been exploited by human traffickers, pushing the number of arrivals into Italy since January past 100,000. The Libyan coast guard originally estimated the boat had held 150-200 people, but an official said on Sunday further checks showed it was bigger than first thought, and more than 250 migrants may have died. The Mare Nostrum search and rescue mission began after a shipwreck near Italy's coast killed 366 people last October. |
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