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1. The United States and the European Union have agreed to broaden sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine crisis. U.S. President Barack Obama said he would offer more details on Friday. Sources told Reuters that the U.S. planned "to sanction Sberbank, Russia's largest bank, and to further limit other Russian banks' access to U.S. capital."
2. Olympic track star Oscar Pistorius was found guilty of culpable homocide on Friday after being cleared of murder charges on Thursday for shooting his girlfriend last year.
3. Australia raised its terror threat from medium to high over the growing threat of militant groups in Iraq and Syria. In a news conference, Prime Minister Tony Abbott stressed that the country was not in imminent danger, but there is growing evidence of Australians connected to Islamist groups.
4. T.J. Lane, a 19-year-old serving a life sentence in prison after killing three high school students in 2012, was captured early Friday after escaping with two other inmates in Lima, Ohio. One of the prisoners, Clifford Opperud, is still believed to be at-large.
5. Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen's charity will reportedly donate $9 million to help fight the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Reuters said.
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