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Obama Reassures US on Tackling Terror
Obama speech to reassure Americans that the terrorist threat is being tackled; Lyse Doucet visits Kisweh, a town near near Damascus; and the earliest biography of an African woman
President Barack Obama has been responding to the San Bernardino shooting with a televised speech from the White House. He warned that the fight against radicalism should not be seen as a war between America and Islam.
Our chief international Correspondent Lyse Doucet, gives us a picture of daily life for people in the town of Kisweh, near Damascus.
And the earliest known book-length biography of an African woman - a 17th-century text about the life of the Ethiopian saint Walatta Petros, has been translated into English for the first time.
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