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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says the threat from al-Qaida-inspired militants who have violently seized territory in Iraq could grow and spill over into other countries in the region. In an interview airing today on CBS' "Face the Nation," Obama says Sunni extremists could amass more weapons and the insurgency could spill over into neighboring Jordan and worsen the situation in Syria. But he says the U.S. can't address hotspots across the Middle East alone.

CAIRO (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry is in Cairo on the highest-level American visit to Egypt since President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi (AHB'-del fat-AH' el-SEE'-see) took office. Washington is pressing the former army chief to adopt more moderate policies. El-Sissi ousted Egypt's first freely elected president, Mohammed Morsi, last July, after widespread protests against the Islamist leader and his Muslim Brotherhood group.

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says negotiation and compromise must accompany a cease-fire in eastern Ukraine, but he's expressing cautious approval of the action by Ukraine's president in the battle against pro-Russia separatists. Putin has appealed to both sides to halt all military operations.

MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash. (AP) — Officials say they have yet to identify a female body found on Mount Rainier in the area where search teams were looking for a prominent outdoors writer. But the search for 70-year-old Karen Sykes has now been suspended. Sykes hasn't been seen since she separated from her hiking partner on Wednesday. She was reportedly working on a story.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Border Patrol is beginning flights tomorrow to ferry Central American migrants from South Texas to California for processing. It's an effort to ease the workload on agents at the nation's busiest corridor for illegal crossings who are dealing with a surge of Central Americans entering Texas' Rio Grande Valley. The Border Patrol has made more than 174,000 arrests since Oct. 1.

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