Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
1. RUSSIA’S GAINS CLOUD OBAMA’S ASSURANCES TO BALTICS
The president’s efforts to convince former Soviet republics of his ironclad commitment to their security are complicated by the West’s inability to halt Russian aggression.
2. ISLAMIC STATE GROUP ACCUSED OF WAR CRIMES
Amnesty International says the extremists have carried out a systematic campaign of mass killings, abductions and ‘ethnic cleansing’ in northern Iraq.