• Two Held in Obama Plot:
  Two men, being described as Neo-Nazis and aged 18 and 20, are being held for plotting to kill [1] Barack Obama. Obama said he's not worried about the news and that it's "not who America is." The plan was to shoot 88 African-Americans and decapitate 14, symbolic numbers to white supremacists. The plot appears to have been amateurish and unsophisticated.



• Syria Raid Kills "Major Target": A controversial raid [2] into Syria has killed a key individual [3], Abu Ghadiyah, who was involved in smuggling foreign fighters into Iraq. Officials called the raid a "success." Baghdad has condemned the move [4] saying that it doesn't want to be used as a launch point for attacks on others.




• Arctic Ice Thickness Drops:
  The thickness of the Arctic Ice dropped last year as much as 1.5 feet in some areas. The ice had been consistent for five years before hitting the 2007 minimum. The losses in ice could suggest the region has hit a tipping point [5] — five years ago they projected the sea ice would disappear by 2080. The new data shows the ice will be gone by 2030 or 2040.

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