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• Australian PM calls July 2 poll amid economic slowdown, instability
• Deployed Washington National Guard soldier dies in Iraq
• California Muslim student wrongly identified as 'Isis' in yearbook
• Turkish warplanes attack Kurdish militant targets in Iraq: sources
• Al Qaeda chief tells jihadist fighters in Syria: Unite or die
• Egypt police killed in IS attack near Cairo
• Multiple attacks in, around Baghdad kill at least 12 people
• France's leads World War II commemorations in Paris
• U.S., allies conduct 25 air strikes against Islamic State militants: U.S. military
• Gunmen kill eight police in Cairo suburb, Islamic State claims attack
• Gunmen kill 8 police in Cairo suburb, Islamic State claims attack
• Journalists held in Syria for 10 months return to Spain
• Report: Turkey attacks IS in Syria; 55 militants killed
• Gunmen kill eight police outside Cairo, Islamic State claims attack
• Indonesia's Muslim cyber warriors take on IS

Australian PM calls July 2 poll amid economic slowdown, instability Posted: 08 May 2016 03:38 PM PDT By Jane Wardell SYDNEY (Reuters) - Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull fired the starting gun on Sunday on one of the longest election campaigns in Australia's history, against the backdrop of a flagging economy and heated debate over sensitive political issues like asylum seekers. Turnbull officially called federal elections for July 2, several months earlier than originally planned, using rarely invoked powers to dissolve both houses of parliament after the upper house Senate repeatedly blocked government legislation. The federal poll throws up the specter of more political instability in Australia, where infighting among the leading parties has resulted in a revolving door to the top job at a time when Australia is trying to rebalance its economy away from a once-in-a-generation mining boom.

Deployed Washington National Guard soldier dies in Iraq Posted: 08 May 2016 02:36 PM PDT SEATTLE (AP) — A Washington National Guard soldier, who was a state trooper in his civilian life, has died in Iraq in a noncombat related incident, the Defense Department said Sunday.

California Muslim student wrongly identified as 'Isis' in yearbook Posted: 08 May 2016 02:02 PM PDT The senior at Los Osos High School in Rancho Cucamonga and her parents were "embarrassed after seeing the picture in the yearbook and have suffered a great deal of emotional and psychological distress," according to an emailed statement by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR. The school's principal has apologized for what she described as a "misprint," and CAIR said its legal team would meet on Monday with the family and school officials, and seek an investigation of the incident, a spokesman told Reuters.

Turkish warplanes attack Kurdish militant targets in Iraq: sources Posted: 08 May 2016 10:23 AM PDT Turkish warplanes hit targets belonging to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq on Sunday, military sources said, as three soldiers and 12 militants were reported killed in separate clashes over the weekend. The F-16 and F-4 2020 aircraft destroyed bunkers, ammunition depots and gun installations in four northern Iraqi regions, including Qandil, where the PKK has camps, the sources said. Turkey has been regularly attacking PKK targets in mountainous northern Iraq since the collapse of a ceasefire between the PKK and the Turkish state in July last year.

Al Qaeda chief tells jihadist fighters in Syria: Unite or die Posted: 08 May 2016 09:50 AM PDT Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri urged rival jihadist fighters in Syria to unite or risk death but again decried fellow Sunni Muslim militants Islamic State as "extremists" in an audio recording posted online on Sunday. As successor to Osama bin Laden, Zawahri has the allegiance of al Qaeda branches in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. In Syria, al Qaeda offshoot Nusra Front and Islamic State are the two most powerful groups fighting government forces.

Egypt police killed in IS attack near Cairo Posted: 08 May 2016 09:16 AM PDT Eight policemen were shot dead on Cairo's southern outskirts in an attack claimed Sunday by the Islamic State group, one of its deadliest in mainland Egypt. The interior ministry said four assailants in a truck intercepted a van carrying the policemen in the district of Helwan, just south of Cairo, and sprayed them with automatic rifle fire. It said those killed in the shooting overnight included a lieutenant and seven lower ranking policemen who had been on patrol in plain clothing.

Multiple attacks in, around Baghdad kill at least 12 people Posted: 08 May 2016 06:58 AM PDT BAGHDAD (AP) — Separate attacks in and around the Iraqi capital on Sunday killed at least 12 people and wounded dozens, officials said.

France's leads World War II commemorations in Paris Posted: 08 May 2016 06:22 AM PDT PARIS (AP) — France's president on Sunday led low-key commemorations in Paris marking the end of World War II in Europe.

U.S., allies conduct 25 air strikes against Islamic State militants: U.S. military Posted: 08 May 2016 05:42 AM PDT The United States and its allies targeted Islamic State in Iraq with 17 air strikes on Saturday, and hit the militant group with eight air strikes in Syria, the U.S. military said on Sunday. Six of the strikes in Iraq were near Mosul, hitting four Islamic State tactical units and destroying four vehicles. In Syria, three strikes were near Mar'a.

Gunmen kill eight police in Cairo suburb, Islamic State claims attack Posted: 08 May 2016 04:31 AM PDT Gunmen killed eight plainclothes police on the southern outskirts of Cairo overnight, the Egyptian interior ministry said, in an assault claimed by Islamic State militants. The four attackers pulled alongside in a pick-up truck and sprayed a police vehicle with automatic weapons fire before fleeing, the ministry said on Sunday. Egypt's government is facing an insurgency that has killed hundreds of soldiers and policemen, mostly in northern Sinai, since mid-2013, when then-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi following mass protests.

Gunmen kill 8 police in Cairo suburb, Islamic State claims attack Posted: 08 May 2016 04:26 AM PDT Gunmen killed eight plainclothes police on the southern outskirts of Cairo overnight, the Egyptian interior ministry said, in an assault claimed by Islamic State militants. The four attackers pulled alongside in a pick-up truck and sprayed a police vehicle with automatic weapons fire before fleeing, the ministry said on Sunday. Egypt's government is facing an insurgency that has killed hundreds of soldiers and policemen, mostly in northern Sinai, since mid-2013, when then-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi following mass protests.

Journalists held in Syria for 10 months return to Spain Posted: 08 May 2016 04:25 AM PDT Three Spanish freelance journalists who were kidnapped in Syria last year arrived in Madrid on Sunday in apparent good health after nearly 10 months in captivity. The three men - Antonio Pampliega, Jose Manuel Lopez and Angel Sastre - went missing last July a few days after crossing into Syria from Turkey. El Pais newspaper said the journalists were kidnapped and held by the Nusra Front, al Qaeda's Syrian wing and a group which is designated by the United Nations and the United States as a terrorist organization.

Report: Turkey attacks IS in Syria; 55 militants killed Posted: 08 May 2016 03:55 AM PDT ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish artillery has fired at the Islamic State group across the border in Syria, killing 55 militants and destroying three rocket launchers and three vehicles, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Sunday.

Gunmen kill eight police outside Cairo, Islamic State claims attack Posted: 08 May 2016 03:32 AM PDT Gunmen killed eight plainclothes policemen just outside Cairo overnight, the interior ministry said, in an assault claimed by Islamic State. Egypt's government is facing an insurgency that has killed hundreds of soldiers and policemen, mostly in northern Sinai, since mid-2013, when then-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi following mass protests. Islamic State's Egyptian affiliate, which calls itself Sinai Province, mainly operates out of northern Sinai, which borders Israel, the Gaza Strip and the Suez Canal.

Indonesia's Muslim cyber warriors take on IS Posted: 08 May 2016 12:45 AM PDT A group of Indonesian "cyber warriors" sit glued to screens, as they send out messages promoting a moderate form of Islam in the world's most populous Muslim-majority country. Armed with laptops and smartphones, some 500 members of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) -- one of the world's biggest Muslim organisations -- are seeking to counter the Islamic State group's extremist messages. Internet propaganda is believed to have played a key role in drawing some 500 Indonesians to the Middle East to join IS, particularly among those living in cities where it is easier to get online.

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