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Foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and US secretary of state John Kerry will confer ahead of negotiations in Geneva with six world powers on settling Tehran. Zarif said Iran-US talks "will remain confined to the margins of the nuclear negotiations".

US military said the coalition carried out 19 strikes and all the attacks took place between Saturday and Sunday morning. Also on Sunday, a video was released in which Amedy Coulibaly, one of the gunmen killed by French police after terrorist attacks which claimed 17 lives this week, appears to claim allegiance to Isis

"If world Jewish organisations were to learn from their Muslim counterparts and say loud and clear in response to Israeli atrocities "not in my name", this could help to reduce antisemitism and make the recruitment of young Muslims by jihadis more difficult. Despite Freedland's claim that Jews have "no control" over Israeli policies, such condemnation could also exert strong pressure on the Israeli government to stop its atrocities and enter into genuine peace negotiations with the Palestinian unity government."

Four French Jewish victims of last week's deadly attack on a kosher Paris supermarket were buried in Jerusalem on Tuesday in an emotional and highly charged funeral attended by thousands of members of Israel's French community. The mourning was led by family members and by Israel's prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu, president Reuven Rivlin and the French minister Ségolène Royal.

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is dealing with the contradictions of promoting free speech while running the world's biggest social network, after being called out on the gap between his words and Facebook policy. Zuckerberg, who has been outspoken in his support of Charlie Hebdo and freedom of speech in general following the attack on the magazine, posted a Facebook message about Sunday's vigil in the heart of Paris.

"Ebola has now moved on from Kenema and the east. For two months, we have hardly had any cases. People say they are winding up some of the Ebola clinics around. For us here, we hope those dark, darkest days of terror, confusion and pain are past. Ebola is still big in Sierra Leone, though, especially in Freetown. I feel so sad for those people."

"It's a sweeping generalisation, of course, but Arabs and Muslims really don't have much to laugh about these days: mayhem and death, war and repression, dictatorship and terrorism are daily fare across the region."

Nigerians living in the UK can be proud of the level of British support for Nigeria in its fight against the terrorist group Boko Haram, the Foreign Office minister Hugo Swire has said, while ruling out sending British troops to the country.

Community members pressed a White House-appointed working group on policing to find a direct line to President Barack Obama for implementing solutions to overcome racial bias in police operations and ways to improve relations with community members - not just follow through on a mandate to make recommendations.

The federal compensation scheme for Australian victims of overseas terrorism should be extended to include domestic attacks such as the Sydney siege, the New South Wales government has said. The NSW attorney general, Brad Hazzard, issued the call for broader coverage in a letter to his federal counterpart, George Brandis.

Putin avoids Auschwitz anniversary event amid tension with Poland -- Absence at event to mark 70th anniversary of Nazi death camp's liberation highlights damage of Russia's relations with west

LONDON - British inflation fell to 0.5 percent in December, a steeper drop than was expected and the lowest rate recorded in the past 15 years. The fall means that Mark Carney, the governor of the Bank of England, will be forced to write a letter to George Osborne, the chancellor of the Exchequer, explaining why inflation is so far below the central bank's 2 percent target.

United States markets leapt in early trading on Tuesday after two days of declines. Traders were encouraged by a stronger-than-expected earnings report from the giant aluminum maker Alcoa late Monday. Energy stocks lagged the rest of the market as the price of crude oil continued to fall.

A revolutionary way of approaching child abduction cases, all thanks to social media: "We are really mobilizing an army of eyes and ears to be on the search," Mr. Ryan said. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children worked closely with Facebook on expanding the alerts, and Mr. Ryan said that the social network's involvement would enhance the scope of Amber Alerts and was a "potential game-changer."

In the heart of Cerro de Pasco, a Peruvian city perched 14,000 feet in the Andes, a mile-wide mine pit smolders. For residents, the growls of heavy machinery are background noise. Just as ever-present is the hazardous cocktail of smoke and lead that seeps into their air and water.

The plan here seems far-fetched - a $36 billion tunnel that would run twice the length of the one under the English Channel, and bore deep into one of Asia's active earthquake zones. When completed, it would be the world's longest underwater tunnel, creating a rail link between two northern port cities.

An Indonesian official said on Tuesday that search teams had located the fuselage of the AirAsia plane that crashed in the Java Sea on Dec. 28, amid conflicting statements about whether the second of the flight's so-called black boxes had been pulled from the water.

An appeals court on Tuesday overturned the conviction of former President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt on charges of corruption, removing the last legal judgment against him and ordering a retrial. Mr. Mubarak, 86, remains inside a military hospital for unspecified reasons, where he was relocated from prison for health reasons during his trials.

Cuba is the idiosyncratic sister of the Caribbean, and a large part of its idiosyncrasy stems from having watched as the last half-century passed it by. What was once a cultural hotbed moldered under Communism.

After the recent success of the film "Selma," MLK's legacy has been in the spotlight: a decidedly less heroic aspect of his legacy has been playing out here in court filings and hearings as his three surviving children work through a pair of lawsuits over the disputed ownership of their father's Bible and Nobel Prize medal, and the licensing of his intellectual property.