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| Obama: Attacks 'terrible' setback in Islamic State campaign Posted: 16 Nov 2015 08:36 AM PST  ANTALYA, Turkey (AP) — President Barack Obama on Monday conceded that the Paris terror attacks were a "terrible and sickening setback" in the fight against the Islamic State, but forcefully dismissed critics who have called for the U.S. to change or expand its military campaign against the extremists.
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| Carson: Congress should stop funding refugee resettlement Posted: 16 Nov 2015 03:05 PM PST  HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson is calling on Congress to withdraw funding to resettle Syrian refugees in the United States, arguing in the wake of the Paris attacks that there is no credible way to tell the difference between an Islamic State militant and an innocent citizen fleeing war.
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| Obama rules out U.S. troops on ground to fight Islamic State Posted: 16 Nov 2015 11:31 AM PST  By Matt Spetalnick BELEK, Turkey (Reuters) - President Barack Obama ruled out a shift in strategy in the fight against Islamic State on Monday despite the deadly attacks in Paris, saying putting more U.S. troops on the ground as sought by his political critics "would be a mistake." Speaking after a G20 summit in Turkey, Obama described the attacks in France that killed 129 people as "a terrible and sickening setback" and vowed to redouble efforts to destroy Islamic State, even as the group threatened to strike Washington. Mindful of the difficulties that the United States had in controlling Iraq after its invasion in 2003, Obama is very reluctant to commit American ground forces to Middle East conflict zones.
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| U.S. firefighter gets world's most extensive face transplant Posted: 16 Nov 2015 02:27 PM PST  By Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - A volunteer firefighter from Mississippi whose face was burned off during a home fire rescue received the world's most extensive face transplant, New York University Langone Medical Center said on Monday. After a 26-hour surgery performed at the New York hospital in August, 41-year-old Patrick Hardison is living with the face of 26-year-old David Rodebaugh, a BMX extreme bicycling enthusiast from Brooklyn who was pronounced brain dead after a cycling accident. Now, for the first time since that raging fire in Senatobia, Mississippi in 2001, Hardison can blink and even sleep with his eyes closed - key steps to sparing his blue eyes from blindness that previously seemed all but inevitable, said Dr. Eduardo Rodriguez, the plastic surgeon who led the 150-person medical team that performed the procedure.
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| Harvard University sounds all clear, no bombs found after threat Posted: 16 Nov 2015 04:04 PM PST  BOSTON (Reuters) - Harvard University said on Monday that a search of four campus buildings targeted by an "unconfirmed" bomb threat had turned up no explosives and that the buildings had reopened for normal business.
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| Muslims face threats of violence, harassment in wake of Paris attacks Posted: 16 Nov 2015 05:56 AM PST  Worshipers of Islam reacted in horror to Friday's deadly terror attacks in Paris and braced for threats, harassment, and violence at home.
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| Growing number of states refuse to accept Syrian refugees in wake of Paris attacks Posted: 16 Nov 2015 04:10 PM PST  A growing number of states are refusing to take in Syrian refugees amid heightened security concerns following Friday's terrorist attacks in Paris, but they may have no choice but to accept them, according to a State Department spokesman. Michigan and Alabama were the first states in the country to refuse relocating Syrian refugees on Sunday, and they have now been joined by Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Indiana, Illinois, Massachusetts, Ohio, Arizona, North Carolina, Florida, Wisconsin, Mississippi, New Hampshire and Georgia, some of which say more information is needed before accepting more refugees. Rick Snyder of Michigan, Robert Bentley of Alabama, Greg Abbott of Texas, and Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas said in separate statements Sunday and today that their states would not be relocating refugees from the war-torn country until the U.S. Department of Homeland Security fully reviewed its screening procedures.
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| After Paris attacks, Hollande urges grand coalition in Syria Posted: 16 Nov 2015 09:01 AM PST  By Emile Picy VERSAILLES, France (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande appealed on Monday for a single coalition including the United States and Russia to eradicate Islamic State militants in Syria after bloody attacks on Paris. In a solemn address to a joint session of parliament in the Palace of Versailles that began with the words "France is at war", Hollande announced an increase in police recruitment, a halt to layoffs in the army, and a constitutional amendment to strengthen the fight against terrorism. The attacks by gunmen and suicide bombers at restaurants, bars, a soccer stadium and a music hall that killed 129 people and wounded more than 350 people were ordered from Syria, planned in Belgium and carried out with the help of French people, he said.
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| France IDs top Paris attacks figure, seeks unity to bomb IS Posted: 16 Nov 2015 02:58 PM PST  France identified a 27-year-old Belgian who once boasted about killing "infidels" and fought for the Islamic State group in Syria as the mastermind of the Paris attacks, and President Francois ...
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| Focus on passport in Paris highlights lack of migrant checks Posted: 16 Nov 2015 02:59 AM PST  BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — The focus on a Syrian passport found near the body of a suicide bomber in the Paris attacks highlights an uncomfortable reality: European authorities are completing few checks on the hundreds of thousands of people moving across their territory fleeing war and poverty.
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