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BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's prime minister is issuing an ultimatum to Sunni tribal fighters. He wants them to abandon the Islamic State group, ahead of a promised offensive to retake Saddam Hussein's hometown from the militants. Tikrit, some 80 miles north of Baghdad, fell into extremist hands last summer. Shiite militias and Iraqi security forces are now positioning themselves around Tikrit
WASHINGTON (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in Washington to deliver the speech to Congress that the Obama administration did not want him to give. An adviser to the prime minister says Netanyahu's mission Tuesday is to speak of the dangers of a nuclear-armed Iran. As the adviser put it: "We are not here to offend President Obama, whom we respect very much."
MOSCOW (AP) — Tens of thousands of Russians are remembering opposition politician Boris Nemtsov who was gunned down Friday night as he walked across a bridge near the Kremlin. He was killed shortly after denouncing on radio what he called President Vladimir Putin's "mad, aggressive policy" in Ukraine. Nemtsov supporters marched solemnly through the Moscow drizzle on Sunday.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University says four cities in upstate New York shivered through their coldest February in history. The average temperature was 10.9 degrees in Buffalo, beating the 1934 record of 11.4. The monthly average was 9.0 in Syracuse, 12.2 in Binghamton and 10.2 in Ithaca.
TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — Police say the driver of a pickup truck that went onto a frozen New Jersey river and then plunged through the ice into the water has turned himself in. They say a passenger who got out just before the truck went onto the river also has surrendered. The men are being questioned and could face criminal charges including for the death of a dog inside the truck.
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