Obama launches penal reform effort

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President Obama has launched an effort to reform US penal policy with a visit to a prison in Oklahoma; Four US marines have been killed in a gun attack on two naval bildings in Tennessee; Islamic State says it struck an Egyptian naval vessel off the mediterranean coast of Sinai with a missile. Image: Reuters

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