[ti:Islamic State Bombs Baghdad Market; 67 Dead]
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[by:www.21voa.com]
[00:00.00]Iraqi officials say a bomb explosion killed at least 67 people 
[00:07.98]in a Shi'ite Muslim neighborhood of Baghdad Thursday. 
[00:12.03]Many more were wounded. Officials say the explosives were in a truck 
[00:17.09]that blew up at the crowded Jameela market in Sadr City.
[00:21.34]The Islamic State group said it carried out the attack. 
[00:26.19]The Sunni militant group considers Shi'ites to be heretics.
[00:31.41]The Iraqi government is fighting alongside Shi'ite militia 
[00:36.20]against the Islamic State group in several provinces. 
[00:40.52]A U.S.-led campaign of airstrikes also is targeting the extremists.
[00:46.79]A new study says only one in three Americans approves 
[00:53.25]of how President Barack Obama dealt with the agreement on Iran's nuclear program. 
[00:59.23]The Gallup research organization did the study.
[01:03.18]The pollster questioned more than 1,000 people in recent days. 
[01:08.37]It said Thursday that 55 percent disapproved 
[01:13.95]of Mr. Obama's Iran policy and 33 percent approved of it.
[01:19.24]The finding is similar to a study by Quinnipiac University. 
[01:24.05]It said twice as many Americans oppose the international agreement with Iran as support it. 
[01:32.41]The U.S. Congress plans to vote next month on whether to approve or reject the deal.
[01:39.29]Gallup said that Mr. Obama's overall approval rating is at 47 percent.
[01:45.69]Al Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri reportedly has promised allegiance 
[01:52.40]to the new head of the Taliban.
[01:54.63]The al Qaida leader appears to have made the statement in an online voice recording. 
[02:01.75]The recording expresses support for the choice of Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour 
[02:08.97]to replace supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar who, 
[02:13.55]the Taleban said, died in late July.
[02:17.65]Intelligence sources tell VOA that U.S. officials are studying the video.
[02:24.41]The U.S. flag will be raised Friday in Cuba. 
[02:28.81]Cuba and the United States re-established diplomatic relations 
[02:34.18]for the first time since the nineteen sixties. 
[02:37.43]Secretary of State John Kerry will raise the flag over the U.S. embassy in Havana.
[02:44.49]Cuban dissidents have not been invited to the flag raising ceremony.
[02:49.97]Mr. Kerry is to meet with a small group of the dissidents 
[02:54.28]at the home of the chief of the U.S. mission later Friday.
[02:58.70]Cuba is located 145 kilometers off the southeastern U.S. coast, 
[03:06.04]but the two countries broke off diplomatic ties in 1961 
[03:11.79]after Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro seized power in 1959. 
[03:17.93]The current Cuban leader, President Raul Castro, 
[03:22.68]and U.S. President Barack Obama announced a resumption in relations last December.
[03:30.04]Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced Wednesday that he has cancer. 
[03:36.57]He said it was discovered recently during liver surgery.
[03:41.32]In a short statement, Mr. Carter did not say what kind of cancer he has. 
[03:47.03]A more complete public statement will be made when facts are known, possibly next week, he said.
[03:54.71]The former president established the Carter Foundation after leaving the White House in 1981. 
[04:03.06]He has traveled the world working on issues like health care, 
[04:07.89]democratic reform, women and children's rights, and affordable housing.
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