Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Wednesday 20 Aug 2014

1. WEST APPALLED BY BEHEADING VIDEO

Western nations have expressed outrage over a "barbaric" video which apparently shows an IS (Islamic State) fighter beheading US journalist James Foley, missing in Syria since 2012. The executioner, speaking with an English accent, says the killing is revenge for US air strikes in Iraq. Another US journalist, Steven Sotloff, appears in the video.

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