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2015年3月20日星期五

Morning Digest: Islamic State video purports to show Kurdish peshmerga beheadings

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03/20/2015

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Islamic State video purports to show Kurdish peshmerga beheadings

ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Islamic State has published a video purporting to show the beheading of three Kurdish peshmerga fighters in northern Iraq by militants who threatened to kill "dozens" more of those being held captive..

Russia says sanctions 'destructive', will act in own interests

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia described "sanctions rhetoric" as destructive on Friday and said it would do what is in its national interests after European Union leaders kept economic sanctions in place over the Ukraine crisis..

Athens pledge, cautious Fed soothes Europe's investors

LONDON (Reuters) - The euro nudged towards its best week in 18 months while yields on low-rated bonds fell as investors welcomed the Fed's cautious approach to raising interest rates and a reform pledge from Athens that could avert a cash crunch..

One Direction's Malik takes tour break due to 'stress'

(Reuters) - One Direction singer Zayn Malik has dropped out of the pop band's On the Road Again tour in Asia due to "stress", his publicist said on Thursday, after pictures were posted of the engaged Malik partying with a holidaymaker in Thailand..

Vonn equals Stenmark with 19th World Cup title

MERIBEL, France (Reuters) - Lindsey Vonn dominated the Super-G at the Alpine skiing World Cup finals on Thursday to add a record-equaling 19th crystal globe to her trophy collection..

Chinese military denies role in reported U.S. hacking

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Defense Ministry on Friday denied that it had anything to do with a cyber attack on Register.com, a unit of Web.com, following a report in the Financial Times that the FBI was looking into the Chinese military's involvement..

Eclipse sweeps across Atlantic, visible only from remote islands

TORSHAVN (Reuters) - A solar eclipse swept across the Atlantic Ocean on Friday with the moon set to block out the sun for a few thousand sky gazers on remote islands with millions more in Europe, Africa and Asia getting a partial celestial show..

Paper planes, parents help Indian pupils outsmart state exams

PATNA, India (Reuters) - Images of Indian students blatantly cheating on school-leaving examinations under the noses of supervisors have gone viral, inviting ridicule on Twitter and exposing flaws in the much-maligned education system of an impoverished eastern state..