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WASHINGTON (AP) — British Prime Minister David Cameron is meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House amid fresh concerns about terrorism in the West. Cameron is expected to push to get American technology companies like Google and Facebook to allow governments to snoop on encrypted communications. He has argued that intelligence agencies must be able to intercept terror suspects' communications on encrypted social media and messaging sites.
BRUSSELS (AP) — Suspected terrorists plotting to carry out more attacks may have been planning to pass themselves off as police officers. Belgian authorities conducting more than a dozen raids today say they've found military-style weapons and several police uniforms. Belgian, German and French police have arrested more than two dozen suspects in anti-terrorism sweeps today, in hopes of preventing attacks like the ones that killed 17 people in Paris last week.
MILAN (AP) — Italy's foreign minister is denying media reports that Italy paid $12 million in ransom to free two young aid workers held for five months in Syria. He's telling Italian lawmakers that "'we are against paying ransom." The women were kidnapped last summer on their third visit to Syria. They landed in Rome today.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Pope Francis has issued his strongest defense yet of church teaching against artificial contraception. At a rally in the Philippines, Francis praised Pope Paul the Sixth for having the courage to reinforce church opposition to birth control. He said Paul was able to foresee "the destruction of the family because of the lack of children." Francis called on Christian families to "be sanctuaries of respect for life."
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal science officials say that for the third time in a decade, the globe sizzled to the hottest year on record. Both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA calculated that 2014 was the hottest year in 135 years of record-keeping. NOAA says 2014 averaged 58.24 degrees Fahrenheit, 1.24 degrees above the 20th-century average.
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