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Kylie Morris
Scan the statements and pronouncements from American politicians of all stripes today, and you’ll see how the murder of Steven J Sotloff has spurred the political world here into rhetoric, if not action.
Jonathan Rugman
The timing of the release of the latest Islamic State video, showing Steven Sotloff’s murder, suggests the lives of other western hostages could be at risk.
Matt Frei
The authorities think that America has spawned several dozen jihadis as opposed to Britain’s several hundred. This is because America has a totally different relationship to its ethnic minorities.
David Cameron will return to Cornwall later after interrupting his holiday over events in Iraq. Who is in charge while he is away from Downing Street?
US forces tried to rescue James Foley and other hostages held by Islamic State militants during a recent secret mission in Syria, say officials, but the captives were nowhere to be found.
Fifty years since the US civil rights act, why have the parents of black teenagers who have been killed taken their case to the UN?
Police use tear gas against protesters and make 31 arrests in another night of violence in Ferguson, Missouri, as President Obama sends the attorney general to meet with investigators.
Islamic militants in Iraq reportedly massacre 80 members of the Yazidi minority, although reports emerge of a far larger number being killed.
Lindsey Hilsum
The barbarians are inside the property. The task is urgent, but the changes needed will take many months and years. Haider al-Abadi has an all but impossible task.
Robin Williams, star of films including Good Morning Vietnam, Mrs Doubtfire and Good Will Hunting, has died at the age of 63 in an apparent suicide. Here are some of his best moments.
Minority Yazidis in Iraq are reportedly buried alive as the US steps up airstrikes against the Islamic State, which declares ‘caliphate’ in the region.
The Daily Mail says Baroness Warsi “flounced” out of government over Gaza. Sexist? Don’t be silly! From William the Conquerer to Putin, some of the most “macho” men have a grand history of flouncing.
This week more than 50 African heads of states are attending the first ever US-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington.
I’ve been to radicalised Muslim countries and heard the rhetoric. But what I’m hearing in Gaza, from people who consider they have little left to live for, is more than that.
Gary Gibbon
European Union foreign ministers meet with the prospect of tightening sanctions against Russia – but some still remain divided.