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The United States is overhauling its approach to fighting Islamic State militants in Syria. The Pentagon spent 500 million dollars training Syrian fighters. But a handful are now left in the battlefield. x is in Washington. 2 initial groups of U.S.-trained rebels suffered embarrassing setbacks. The first was rounded up by the x Front; while the second surrendered much of its American military equipment to the same extremist group. The administration has thus announced, what it's calling, a pause. As part of this x, the Pentagon will now provide basic military equipment and weapons to a select group x leaders and their units, who've had success in fighting Islamic State in places like x. They'll also provide these groups with their support.
The Israeli Army says Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip have launched a rocket into southern Israel, hours after Israeli soldiers shot dead 6 Palestinians on the border. They said the rocket landed in open ground. On Friday, the Israeli Army said its troops opened fire to disperse rioters, who were rolling burning tyres towards them. A spokesman for Hamas, x, said that a new x, or uprising, was underway. The x must be x, and we are not going back. x enemy is fully responsible and has crossed all the redlines, and offended and angered the feelings of our people. The enemy should only blame itself, and bear the consequence of its policy.
President Barack Obama has said the United States has to figure out how to stop mass shootings, after holding talks with the families of people shot dead last week. Mr. Obama made the comments after a private meeting of the Oregon College, where a student killed 9 people before killing himself. From x, here's x. President Obama spent around an hour with relatives of those who were killed at x Community College last week. After the meeting, he said the United States would have to come together as a country to deal with the problem of gun deaths. But today, he added, was about supporting the families. As the President's helicopter landed in x, there were cheers from protesters, many openly carrying guns, who accused him of trying to politicise a local tragedy.
2 people have been killed in shootings at universities in the U.S. states of Arizona and Texas. A student killed a classmate and wounded 3 others on the campus of Northern Arizona University on Friday. Hours later, a person died and another was wounded wounded in a shooting in Texas.
A judge in the U.S. state of Arkansas has halted the executions of 8 death roll prisoners. Their lawyers challenged a new secrecy law, which allows the state to withhold the identity of the manufacturers or sellers of its execution drugs. Citing a similar case in neighbouring Oklahoma. The lawyers argued that the prisoners could suffer unduly because the safety of the drugs could not be verified.
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North Korea is holding what is expected to be one of its biggest celebrations ever to mark the 70th anniversary of the ruling Workers' Party. A x of tanks, armoured vehicles and ballistic missiles is expected to ramble through the capital, Pyongyang's main square shortly, showcasing the country's military muscle.
The United States and 5 European nations have issued a joint statement, urging the rival factions in Libya to agreed to proposals to form a unity government. The United Nations has put forward the plan, which must now be considered by the country's 2 governments.
Fears of another landslide have forced the authorities in Guatemala to move families from an area where more than 250 people died a week ago. Nearly 400 people are missing after the landslide hit a poor neighbourhood. The Guatemalan government will decide on Monday whether to halt the rescue work.
Police in Turkey have detained the editor of leading English language newspaper on suspicion of insulting President x in a series of tweets. x, the Chief Editor of Today's x, insists he is exercising his right to free speech.
And newly-released documents from the personal archive of the former British Prime Minister, Margret Thatcher, revealed she was urged to soften her iron lady image and display a more caring side by one of her closest advisers. More from x. x was Mrs. Thatcher's Chief Press Secretary throughout her premiership. In 1985, he wrote a 5-page memo ahead of that year's Conservative Party Conference, listing her strengths and, what he called, her perceived weaknesses. She was, he told her, decisive and strong-minded; but she was also seen as having a hectoring, straightened, bossy, dictatorial personality. In her conference speech that year, she stopped short of using words like compassionate and caring, though she did say she understood the problems faced by the less fortunate in society.
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