us-hotdailynews: 2015-01-31 U.S. World

IS hostage drama shows change in propaganda technique
U-T San Diego
FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015 file photo, a passerby is silhouetted against a large TV screen broadcasting a news program in Tokyo reporting on a video posted on YouTube by jihadists on Tuesday, Jan. 27, that purports to show a still photo of ...

Japan envoy says 'only purpose' is to bring journalist home alive   Jerusalem Post Israel News
Jordan still awaiting proof pilot is alive   Sydney Morning Herald
Forcing kidnap negotiations makes Isil the big winner   Irish Independent
New York Daily News
AsiaOne
The Times (subscription)
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Nasrallah: Rules of engagement shattered
The Daily Star
Hezbollah supporters carry the party's flags along pictures of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah and those of martyrs during a ceremony in Beirut's southern suburbs, Friday, Jan. 30, 2015. (The Daily Star/Hasan Shaaban). Connect; Tweet; RSS ...

Hezbollah warns of more attacks on Israel after deadly airstrike   Chicago Tribune
The Great Game: Israeli, Hezbollah, and Iranian Edition   Huffington Post
Hezbollah chief says group is not afraid of war with Israel   Jewish Telegraphic Agency
New York Times
Tehran Times
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Battle Intensify Near Kirkuk, Twin Blasts Hit Baghdad Market
Voice of America
CAIRO—. Fierce fighting erupted Friday between Islamic State militants and Kurdish Peshmerga forces near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk. Officials say a senior Kurdish commander and at least eight of his fighters were killed. Meanwhile, at least 27 people ...

IS chemical weapons expert killed, says US military   BBC News
Air strike kills IS 'chemical weapons expert': US   Times of India
ISIS chemical weapons expert killed in airstrike, US officials say   Fox News
The Seattle Times
New York Times
Irish Independent
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The Syriza shock
The News International
The European project is in shock. Syriza's victory in Greece on January 25, 2015 has been termed by many European leaders as the most devastating blow to the European Union. The newly established left-wing party was able to gain 149 out of 300 ...

Germany to Greece: Don't mess with us over debt, austerity   Washington Post
Greece warned against reversing austerity as it rejects bailout administrators   euronews
Greece's Varoufakis: 'No debt talks with EU-IMF troika'   BBC News
Daily Mail
Irish Times
Boston Globe
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Dozens dead in bombing of mosque in Pakistan
Irish Times
An explosion ripped through a Shia mosque in southern Pakistan during weekly prayers yesterday, killing more than 40 people and wounding at least 50 in an apparent suicide attack, hospital officials said. The bombing, in Shikarpur, about 480km north of ...

Blast in Pakistan: Death toll in Shia mosque suicide bombing rises to 61   The Indian Express
Another bloodied day   The News International
World Watch   Wall Street Journal
New York Times
Press TV
Voice of America
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Canada Seeks to Strengthen Spy Agency After Attacks
New York Times
OTTAWA — Citing the attacks by radical Islamists that killed two Canadian soldiers in October and the more recent assaults in France, Prime Minister Stephen Harper introduced sweeping legislation on Friday that would greatly expand the role of Canada's ...

Security debates are now about campaigning in pre-election times   The Globe and Mail
Canadian spies, police to get broader anti-terror powers   RT
How would have new terror legislation affected recent Canadian cases?   Toronto Star
Macleans.ca
CBC.ca
NorthumberlandView.ca
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Chad army retakes Nigerian town from Boko Haram
Jerusalem Post Israel News
Troops from Chad have driven Boko Haram fighters from a northern Nigeria border town seized by the Islamist militants late last year, military sources in Niger said on Thursday. A Chadian military source said 123 Boko Haram fighters were killed in clashes ...

A good place to hit terrorism in Nigeria is in its corrupt government   Los Angeles Times
Nigeria buys black market weapons to fight Boko Haram   The Globe and Mail
African Nations Show Progress in Uniting to Beat Back Militants in Nigeria   New York Times
Sydney Morning Herald
Irish Times
Charlotte Observer
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2 Americans under fire in anti-West attack in Saudi Arabia
DAWN.com
RIYADH: Gunmen fired at two US citizens on Friday on a road in oil-rich Eastern Province, leaving one wounded, in the fourth anti-Western attack in Saudi Arabia in as many months, police said. “At 2pm today... a car carrying two American nationals... came ...

A Disconnect in Honoring Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah   Wall Street Journal (blog)

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CNN

'Prime Evil,' pro-apartheid assassin, granted parole
CNN
Pretoria, South Africa (CNN) Eugene de Kock was the most notorious assassin of South Africa's apartheid era, commanding a death squad that kidnapped, tortured and killed black activists. His nickname: Prime Evil. After apartheid fell, he was put on trial and ...

South Africa Grants Parole To a Death-Squad Leader   New York Times
Apartheid death squad leader Eugene de Kock killed her mother - and she ...   CBC.ca
South Africa grants parole to apartheid death squad leader   Times of India
The Globe and Mail
Christian Science Monitor
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Israel to build another 450 settler homes: NGO
DAWN.com
JERUSALEM: Israel on Friday published tenders to build 450 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank, a watchdog said, in a plan denounced by the Palestinians as a “war crime”. Settlements watchdog Peace Now tied the move to Israel's March 17 ...

US says Israel settlement projects 'inflame tensions'   Press TV
Israel issues tenders for new settler homes ahead of election   Firstpost
US condemns new Israeli settlement plan   Ahram Online
Haaretz
gulfnews.com
ABC News
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