Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Saturday 6 Sep 2014

1. UK SIGNS UP TO US ANTI-ISIS CAMPAIGN

Britain has signed up to a Washington-led “core coalition” to destroy Isis. Barack Obama said yesterday that he will “take the fight” to the extremist group, after the US secretary of state said containing the “ ambitious, avowed genocidal, territorial-grabbing, caliphate-desiring” group is not an option. The US believes the campaign may take up to three years.

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