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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will begin laying out a strategy to defeat Islamic State militants this week. Obama is scheduled to meet with congressional leaders at the White House on Tuesday and deliver a speech on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the U.S. carried out airstrikes against Islamic State militants around Haditha Dam in western Iraq on Sunday.
CAIRO (AP) — The head of the Arab League is asking its member states to confront the Islamic State group "militarily and politically." Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby says the 22-member regional group is facing unprecedented challenges. He says what's needed is a "clear and firm decision for a comprehensive confrontation" to what he called "cancerous and terrorist" groups.
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A Somali police officer says mortar shells have landed in a residential neighborhood in Mogadishu on Sunday. The officer says five people were wounded. .No group has claimed responsibility but it comes a day after al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab named a new leader and vowed to avenge the death of its previous head. He was killed by a U.S. airstrike.
SPARTAK, Ukraine (AP) — Shelling and other clashes between government forces and pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine are throwing a cease-fire agreement into deepening peril. Violence broke out this weekend near Donetsk as well as in the port city of Mariupol (mah-ROO'-pahl).
DETROIT (AP) — It could take several more days before electrical service resumes for all of the remaining Michigan homes and businesses still powerless after a storm Friday that generated 75 mile-per-hour winds, blacked out 452,000 homes and businesses and claimed the life of a suburban Detroit man. Detroit-based DTE Energy says 200,000 of its 2.1 million customers are still without power.
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