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LONDON (AP) — The knife-wielding British-accented terrorist seen in numerous beheading videos from the Islamic State group has now been identified. A Western official says the militant known by the world as "Jihadi John" is actually Mohammed Emwazi, a 20-something man who was born in Kuwait and was raised in West London. British intelligence won't confirm his identity, citing a "live counterterrorism investigation."
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia's Intelligence and Security Committee is recommending a major rewrite of draft laws that would force the country's telephone companies and Internet providers to store customers' personal data for at least two years for the convenience of law enforcement agencies. The committee is recommending that the bill specify what information is to be kept, which it currently does not do. The bill is meant as a counterterrorism measure to help law enforcement agencies prosecute extremists who plot terror attacks online and through telephone communications.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan officials say severe conditions and lack of machinery are hampering efforts to reach people trapped, injured or dead after avalanches and flooding across large sections of the country. Officials say 165 people are known to have died 60 miles northeast of the capital Kabul, when avalanches buried homes in a valley earlier this week. But casualties are expected to climb as agencies reach more remote areas.
OXNARD, Calif. (AP) — Records show that the pickup truck driver who mistakenly turned onto railroad tracks, causing a commuter train crash this week, wasn't the first person to make a wrong turn at the same crossing in Oxnard, California. There've been six accidents in the last seven years at that crossing, including one that killed two people in a car last year. On Thursday night, driver Jose Alejandro Sanchez-Ramirez was released from jail. Investigators say they'll complete an investigation before deciding whether to file charges against him.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana lawmakers have approved legislation that would allow certain facilities to install metal boxes where parents can surrender their newborns anonymously. The 2-foot-long incubators would be placed at hospitals, police and fire stations, churches and select nonprofits, and would supplement U.S. safe haven laws that allow people to surrender infants at designated sites without risking prosecution so long as the child isn't harmed. Critics say the boxes don't address the issues that contribute to abandonment.
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