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Video showing the moment the house of Ziyad al-Salmy, an Islamic Jihad leader, is hit by an Israeli air strike in Gaza City. IMAGES
A prison van believed to be carrying Aine Davis arrives at the Old Bailey, London's Central Criminal Court, as the alleged British member of the Islamic State group attends a pre-trial hearing accused of terror offences. Davis was part of a group of four known as the Beatles because of their British accents, which murdered hostages while fighting with jihadists in Syria. IMAGES
The mother of slain journalist James Foley, Diane Foley, says the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation welcomes the life sentence for El Shafee Elsheikh after the member of the notorious Islamic State kidnap-and-murder cell known as the "Beatles" was sentenced to life in prison by a US court for the deaths of four American hostages in Syria. "With today's verdict we finally have a bit of justice," she says outside the federal courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia. SOUNDBITE
The US Attorney for the eastern district of Virginia announces that the two members of the notorious Islamic State kidnapping cell dubbed the "Beatles" pleaded not guilty in US court to charges of conspiring to murder four American hostages. SOUNDBITE
Iraqi protesters clash with security forces in Iraq's central city of Karbala as anti-government protests continue across the country. Iraq's embattled premier announced Friday he would resign in keeping with the wishes of the country's top cleric, as renewed violence added to a soaring death toll in two months of anti-government protests. IMAGES
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo lands in Mexico City to meet president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, an anti-establishment leftist who arrives at a point when the two countries' relations are deeply strained. IMAGES of his arrival