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| Parents of American held by Islamic State appeal for his release | | | By Alex Dobuzinskis REUTERS - The parents of an American humanitarian worker held hostage by Islamic State militants appealed for his release on Saturday, speaking in a statement and a video message that highlighted his aid work and mentioned his conversion to Islam. Ed and Paula Kassig, of Indianapolis, Indiana, urged the release of their son, Peter Kassig, 26. Kassig was threatened in a video issued on Friday by Islamic State militants that purported to show the beheading of British aid worker Alan Henning, 47. ... |
| At least five killed in attack on Hazaras in Pakistani city of Quetta | | | By Gul Yousufzai QUETTA Pakistan (Reuters) - At least five people were killed and dozens wounded in a suspected suicide attack on a predominantly Shi'ite Hazara neighbourhood of the volatile Pakistani city of Quetta on Saturday, police said. No one immediately claimed responsibility. Last year, members of Quetta's Hazara community, an ethnic minority in predominantly Sunni Muslim Pakistan, staged a sit-in in protest at their lack of protection, refusing to bury the bodies of people killed in a bomb blast in a Shi'ite commercial area of the city. ... |
| Pakistani Taliban declare allegiance to Islamic State and global jihad | |  By Saud Mehsud and Maria Golovnina DERA ISMAIL KHAN/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The Pakistani Taliban declared allegiance to Islamic State on Saturday and ordered militants across the region to help the Middle Eastern jihadist group in its campaign to set up a global Islamic caliphate. Islamic State, which controls swathes of land in Syria and Iraq, has been making inroads into South Asia, which has traditionally been dominated by local Taliban insurgencies against both the Pakistan and Afghanistan governments. ...
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| British Muslims condemn beheading of aid worker Alan Henning | |  By Stephen Addison LONDON (Reuters) - Muslim groups across Britain united on Saturday to join Prime Minister David Cameron in condemning the beheading of aid worker Alan Henning by Islamic State insurgents. Prayers for the 47-year-old taxi driver were said in mosques throughout Britain at the start of the Muslim Eid al-Adha festival, as his family said they were numb with grief. Cameron called Henning a gentle, compassionate man who had simply tried to help others, and said Britain would do all it could to destroy his killers. ...
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| Hackers who hit JPMorgan attacked some 9 other firms - report | |  REUTERS - About nine other banks and brokerages were infiltrated by the same group of hackers who recently attacked computer systems at JPMorgan Chase & Co, the New York Times reported late on Friday, citing unnamed people briefed on the matter. The report, which could not be independently verified and did not identify any of the victims beyond JPMorgan, said it was not clear how serious the attacks had been. JPMorgan said on Thursday that names and contact information for some 83 million household and small business customers were stolen, making it one of the biggest data breaches in history. ...
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| Islamic State video shows second British hostage beheaded | |  By Mark Hosenball and Sylvia Westall WASHINGTON/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State militants beheaded British aid worker Alan Henning in a video posted on Friday, triggering swift condemnation by the British and U.S. governments. The footage on YouTube, highlighted on pro-Islamic State Twitter feeds, showed a middle-aged man in an orange jumpsuit kneeling next to a black-clad militant in arid scrubland, similar to past Islamic State beheading videos of two American journalists and a British aid worker. As in previous videos, Henning appears to read from a script before he is killed. ...
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