Islamic State group leader appears in a new propaganda video

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The United States says it is determined to hunt down the remaining leaders of the Islamic State group, after the release of a video purporting to show Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Aid agencies are appealing for more international funding to help with the relief effort in Mozambique, where Cyclone Kenneth has killed at least thirty-eight people since making landfall on Thursday. Liberian lawyer Alfred Brownell has won the prestigious Goldman Environmental prize for Africa for challenging the destruction of the country’s tropical forests for palm oil plantation.