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The US is assessing the results of an air strike in Syria that targeted Mohammed Emwazi - better known as "Jihadi John".  He's the black clad terrorist seen in Islamic State propaganda videos killing hostages in gruesome ways, and taunting Western officials.  The strike focused on a site in or around Raqqa, the de facto capital of Islamic State.  A Pentagon news release states that Emwazi took part in "the murders of US journalists Steven Sotloff and James Foley, US aid worker Abdul-Rahman 'Peter' Kassig, British aid workers David Haines and Alan Henning, Japanese journalist Kenji Goto, and a number of other hostages."

There's a mystery at the Pentagon, where US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter dismissed his chief aide amid an investigation into unspecified "misconduct".  Carter praised three-star Lieutenant General Ron Lewis as someone he can "count on" as recently as a few weeks ago.  If Lewis is in trouble, it'd be a terrible end to an inspirational career.  He has in the past has humbly described himself as a former "punk kid" from Chicago, who went from a Catholic Prep school on the infamous South Side, to West Point; he became a highly skilled attack helicopter pilot and then rose to the highest levels of policy-making in the Obama administration.

Greenland's Zachariae Isstrom Glacier - which holds enough water to raise global sea levels by half a meter - has begun to crumble into the North Atlantic Ocean.  "Even if we have some really cool years ahead, we think the glacier is now unstable," said geophysicist Jeremie Mouginot at the University of California at Irvine, who predicts the glacier will melt for 20 or 30 years before slowing down.  The glacier is being battered from warmer waters below and rising air temperatures above.

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) will meet later on Friday to consider banning Russia from competitions because of the damning report from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).  Russia has started to creep up on admitting some of the allegations, which include widespread use of banned performance-enhancing substances, cheating on lab tests to mask that use, and a possible role of the Russian FSB secret police in the scam.  "We admit some things, we argue with some things, some are already fixed, it's a variety," said Vadim Zelichenok, acting president of the Russian track federation.  If Russia's track and field athletes are banned, Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko says Moscow will not boycott the rest of next year's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Colombia plans to legalize the cultivation and sale of marijuana for medicinal and scientific purposes, joining Latin American and Caribbean governments from Mexico and Jamaica to Chile and Uruguay that are legalizing or at least decriminalizing the harmless plant.  The shift is major, considering Colombia's past as a participant in the UN "war on drugs".  As many as 400,000 Colombians suffering from epilepsy and other ailments could benefit from legal medical marijuana.

A federal jury in the US cleared an 80-year old reputed mobster in the notorious 1978 Lufthansa robbery, a multi-million dollar heist that became the basis for the Martin Scorsese movie "Goodfellas".  Prosecutors were silent and not happy while exiting the federal court in Brooklyn, New York - not so for Vincent Asaro, who was pretty damned happy.  Asaro was the only person charged in the crime, in which thieves stole US$5 million in cash and $1 million in jewels from a cargo vault at the Lufthansa terminal at New York's Kennedy Airport.

Cops across Europe rounded up 13 members of a suspected jihadist group that was allegedly recruiting foreign fighters to be sent to Iraq and Syria.  The arrested the suspects in Italy, Norway and the UK; and investigators searched homes and buildings in  Germany, Finland and Switzerland.  "Rawti Shax" came together on the "dark web", a secretive part of the internet that isn't searchable with google and cannot be seen without special browsers.

The British Charity Oxfam is accusing Bulgaria of mistreating migrants and refugees from Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia.  The report is based on the testimony of people walking up the Balkans route to northern Europe.  They relay numerous cases of alleged police beatings, police dog attacks, and extortion.  "These testimonies present a consistent picture of alleged incidents in Bulgaria," said Stefano Baldini, Oxfam director for South East Europe.