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©2015 Bloomberg News NMT1XS6K50XS (Bloomberg) — They look like regular Islamic State militants in khaki fatigues and black bandanas, exercising and practicing combat routines. Yet their size and lack of trademark black beards betray them as children. The group, also known as ISIS or Da’esh, is already turning to the next

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Copyright 2015 Bloomberg. NIOVX36JIJUQ (Updates with Japanese government official in third paragraph.) (Bloomberg) — A Japanese hostage was shown killed in a purported Islamic State video after a deadline passed for Japan to pay a $200 million ransom, according to the Japanese government and a terrorist-monitoring group. Haruna Yukawa, a

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(Bloomberg) — Japan is using “every channel available” to secure the release of Kenji Goto, a war journalist captured and threatened with death by Islamic State militants. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters in Tokyo on Monday that Japan would do its utmost to free Goto with the co-operation

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