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| Islamic State beheads British hostage Henning in new video | |  By Matt Spetalnick and Sylvia Westall WASHINGTON/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State militants fighting in Iraq and Syria released a video on Friday that purported to show the beheading of a man it identified as British citizen Alan Henning. The footage on YouTube, which was linked to on pro-Islamic State Twitter feeds, showed a man in an orange jumpsuit kneeling in a landscape who was identified as Henning. "Because of our parliament's decision to attack the Islamic State, I, as a member of the British public, will now pay the price for that decision," the kneeling man says. ...
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| Secret Service in disarray, fueling questions over Obama's safety | |  By Matt Spetalnick, David Lawder and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Secret Service officer Timothy McCarthy took a bullet to protect Ronald Reagan in a 1981 assassination attempt and agent Jerry Parr shoved the president into a limousine, their quick reflexes projected a Hollywood-style image of invincibility around the agency. ...
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| States probe JPMorgan Chase as hack seen fueling fraud | |  By Jim Finkle and Karen Freifeld BOSTON (Reuters) - Two U.S. states are investigating the theft of 83 million customer records from JPMorgan Chase & Co in a massive cyberattack uncovered over the summer, and more may soon join, Reuters learned on Friday. Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan said she has launched a probe into the hack on the No. 1 U.S. bank by assets. Connecticut is also investigating, said a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to publicly discuss the probe. ...
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| California man whose pit bulls killed woman gets 15 years to life | | | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Southern California man whose four pit bulls fatally mauled a woman near her home was sentenced on Friday to 15 years to life in prison for second-degree murder, a court clerk said. Alex Donald Jackson, 31, received the sentence during a hearing at a court in Lancaster just north of Los Angeles, a few months after his conviction at a trial where jurors heard evidence of past attacks by the dogs that prosecutors say demonstrate Jackson knew they were a menace. ... |
| Ex-Murdoch British editor admits phone-hacking offence | |  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - A former newspaper editor, whose emails led to the exposure of widespread phone-hacking at Rupert Murdoch's now defunct British tabloid, the News of the World, pleaded guilty on Friday to illegally listening to people's voicemails. Ian Edmondson is the eighth person from what was once Britain's biggest-selling paper to have been convicted of being involved in hacking celebrities' phones to find exclusive stories. Edmondson, who had previously denied any wrongdoing, admitted conspiring with colleagues to illegally access voicemails. ...
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| In rare alliance, Shi'ites join Sunnis to defend Iraqi towns | |  By Raheem Salman and Yara Bayoumy BAGHDAD (Reuters) - When Islamic State fighters tried to storm the Tigris River town of Dhuluiya north of Baghdad this week, they were repelled by a rare coalition of Sunni tribal fighters inside the town and Shi'ites in its sister city Balad on the opposite bank. The assault, which began late on Tuesday and ran into Thursday, was one of several major battles in recent days in which Sunni tribes joined pro-government forces against the militants, in what Baghdad and Washington hope is a sign of increasing cooperation across sectarian lines to save the country. ...
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| Nine U.N. troops killed in worst attack yet on Mali force | | | By Adama Diarra and David Lewis BAMAKO/DAKAR (Reuters) - Nine United Nations peacekeepers in Mali were killed when heavily armed gunmen on motorbikes ambushed their convoy on Friday, the deadliest attack yet on U.N. troops in Mali, the mission said. The attack on the peacekeepers from Niger took place in the region of Gao and highlighted a sharp increase in strikes on foreign troops based in Mali to prevent the return of al Qaeda-linked Islamists who seized the desert north in 2012. "I am horrified by this cowardly act of terrorism ... ... |
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