Wisdom and dealmaking

April 01, 2015 - Daily News Briefing

No deal and a bad deal are dangerous outcomes in the Iranian nuclear negotiations. A good deal is needed.

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Islamic State fighters killed at least 37 people in a Syrian village near the city of Hama overnight, a group monitoring the war said, part of a pattern of attacks by the ultra-radical force in government-held areas of western Syria. Syrian state television put the number killed at 44 and said 21 others had been wounded in the attack on Mabouja, a 40 mile drive east of Hama. A Syrian military source said the army had repelled the assault on Tuesday.

Iraqi forces battled Islamic State militants Tuesday holed up in downtown Tikrit as the country's prime minister announced security forces had reached the city's center. In a statement Tuesday, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said security forces already have retaken neighborhoods on the southern and western edges of Saddam Hussein's hometown and are moving to control the entire city. But Abdul-Wahab al-Saadi, the commander of the Salahuddin operation, said his forces fighting in from the west were still 325 yards from the center of Tikrit.

International donors have pledged $3.8 billion to tackle the humanitarian crisis in Syria, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said at a summit in the Kuwaiti capital on Tuesday. The United Nations is seeking to help 18 million people inside Syria and those scattered throughout the region by more than four years of civil war, as well as the countries and communities that are struggling to host the flood of refugees. Tuesday's meeting was attended by nearly 80 governments and dozens of aid agencies, with the United States promising $507 million, Kuwait $500 million, the United Arab Emirates $100 million and Saudi Arabia $60 million.

An armed prisoner who fled a suburban Washington hospital with a guard's gun on Tuesday was recaptured in the US capital after a nine-hour manhunt, police said. The prisoner, accused bank robber Wossen Assaye, 42, broke free from a private security guard at the Inova Fairfax Medical Campus in Falls Church, Virginia, at about 3 a.m. and fled with the guard's weapon, the Fairfax County Police Department said on its Twitter account. Assaye stole two cars during a manhunt by local, state and federal authorities. He was recaptured in Washington and is in the custody of the city police, Fairfax County Police said.

New England Patriots team owner Robert Kraft testified Tuesday that his former star tight end Aaron Hernandez told him he was innocent when asked if he was involved in a June 2013 killing. Kraft spent a little more than a half-hour on the stand after being called by the prosecution in Hernandez's murder trial over the June 17, 2013, slaying of Odin Lloyd. Lloyd was dating the sister of Hernandez's fiancee.

Cable television operator Charter Communications Inc said it would buy Bright House Networks in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $10.4 billion to expand in Florida. Bright House, controlled by the Newhouse family, has about 2 million video customers in central Florida, including Orlando and Tampa Bay as well as Alabama, Indiana, Michigan, and California.

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The Daily News Briefing is published Monday through Friday by The Christian Science Publishing Society in Boston, Massachusetts.

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