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BAGHDAD (AP) — Just one day before last week's terror attacks in Paris, senior Iraqi intelligence officials warned members of the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group of imminent assaults by the militant organization. The Associated Press has learned that Iraqi intelligence sent a dispatch saying the group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, had ordered an attack on coalition countries fighting against them in Iraq and Syria, as well as on Iran and Russia, through bombings or other attacks in the days ahead.
PARIS (AP) — French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius (loh-RAHN' FAH'-bee-yus) says his country was justified in carrying out air strikes on the Islamic State group in Syria. France launched "massive" air strikes Sunday night on the city of Raqqa, destroying a jihadi training camp and a munitions dump. Meanwhile, authorities have arrested seven people and are hunting for more alleged members of a sleeper cell that carried out Friday's Paris attacks that killed 129 people.
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A Palestinian health official says two Palestinians were killed and three were wounded in clashes with Israeli troops in the West Bank. A Health Ministry spokesman says the Palestinians were killed at dawn Monday when Israeli troops entered a refugee camp. The Israeli military says troops were in the camp to demolish the home of a Palestinian who it says shot and killed an Israeli in the West Bank this summer.
HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson says he would cut down on illegal immigration across the U.S.-Mexico border by cutting all benefits he says attract illegal immigration. The comments came during a press availability Sunday in Henderson, Nevada. Carson suggests prosecuting all first-time offenders, installing a double fence and using technology-driven surveillance to cut down sharply on the percentage of illegal crossings.
SALEM, Mass. (AP) — Opening statements are set for Monday in Salem, Massachusetts in the trial of a high school teen charged with raping and killing his math teacher two years ago. Philip Chism was 14 when math teacher Colleen Ritzer was attacked and killed. The 24-year-old's body was found near Danvers High School. Her throat had been slit. Chism is now 16 years old. Chism's lawyers have suggested they will use a mental health defense and argue he isn't criminally responsible for the teacher's death.
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