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News Wrap: Talk grows of IS bomb on downed Metrojet plane

Season 2015 Episode 3080 | 5m 15s

In our news wrap Wednesday, the Associated Press and other news outlets reported that U.S. intelligence believes that Islamic State militants planted a bomb on a Russian airliner that broke up and crashed in the Egyptian desert Saturday. Also, a cargo plane crashed in South Sudan, killing 36 people.

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