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16/07/2015

Obama launches penal reform effort

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President questions jail sentences; Tennessee marines shot dead; IS attacks Egyptian ship

President Obama targets long prison sentences for non-violent offenders; Four US marines killed in Tennessee shooting; IS says it hit an Egyptian naval vessel in a missile attack

President Obama has launched an effort to reform US penal policy with a visit to a prison in Oklahoma; Four US marines have been killed in a gun attack on two naval bildings in Tennessee; Islamic State says it struck an Egyptian naval vessel off the mediterranean coast of Sinai with a missile. Image: Reuters

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