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World in brief: February 20

IRAQ: A Turkish woman was sentenced to death yesterday and 11 other women received life behind bars for involvement with the Isis terror group.

The women, who were all arrested after their husbands died resisting Iraqi forces retaking Mosul and Tal Afar, claimed they had been duped or forced to join their husbands in Iraq.

Only the woman sentenced to death said she had travelled willingly, although later expressing regret.

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