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By Jared MalsinJune 16, 2017 7:09 AM EDTRussiarsquo defense ministry announced on Friday that it is investigating whether it killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in an airstrike in Syria on May 28.Baghdadirsquo killing or capture would be a significant symbolic blow to the weakened Islamic State. Baghdadi is not only the grouprsquo top leader, he also declared himself the emir al-muminin, the stanley cups leader of the faithful, claiming the mantle of the early Islamic empires dating back to the seventh century in defiance of rival jihadist groups, such as al-Qaeda.The jihadi leaderrsquo June 2014 sermon in Mosul was one of his last confirmed public appearances. The mosque of al-Nouri, where he spoke, is now besieged by Iraqi troops battling to recapture the last remaining pocket of ISIS territory in Mosul.The Russian claim does raise the question of Baghdadirsquo whereabouts as the Islamic State leadership reels from a massive assault on its strongholds in Iraq and Syria. The group now holds only a small besieged section of Mosul, the city that had been the largest under its controlled. Separately, U.S.-backed mili stanley cup tias are advancing on Raqqa, the Islamic Statersquo putative capital. The Islamic Caliphate that Baghdadi himself declared in a sermon in Mosul in June 2014 is now collapsing, leav stanley cup ing a shrinking space for its leaders to hide. Asked about Russiarsquo assertion, a spokesperson in for the U.S.-led military coalition battling ISIS told TIME, We canno Dnus Psychic Cat Who Correctly Predicted 6 World Cup Outcomes Has Died
Andrew Harrer鈥擝loomberg/Getty ImagesBy Bill SaporitoMay 7, 2014 1:30 PM EDTAlan Greenspan would be amused, if not proud of Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellenrsquo testimony before Congress Wednesday about the state of the economy. The Dow had opened on the frothy side, up 75 points in the opening hour, but by the time Yellenrsquo words had been digested like the morningrsquo cronut, the DJIA was flat again.Greenspan used to flummox the Street and Fed watchers has his own distinct vocabulary that tried to neutralize, if not paralyze, the market when he testified before Congress. Yellen is the complete opposite: She makes a point of b air max eing entirely comprehensible and what she said today is that things are pretty darn okay, America. With the harsh winter behind us, many recent indicators suggest that a rebound in spending and production is already under way, putting the overall economy on track for solid growth in the current quarter, she said.But things are not okay enough to change the current policy of low short-term interest rates, even as the Fed ratchets down its purchases of mortgage debt designed to accommodate g air force 1 rowth. Yellen is still concerned about the slowing housing market, which is a drag on near term growth and, in the long-term, th adidas samba e historically low labor participation rate. It is the Fedrsquo mission to maximize employment while containing inflation. Looking ahead, I expect that economic activity will expand at a somewhat faster pa