Vox Sentences: Egypt's bombing ISIS in Libya. Let that one sink in.

1. "ISIS is at the door"

The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb (R) offers his condolences to Egypt's Coptic Pope Tawadros II at Saint-Mark's Coptic Cathedral in Cairo's al-Abbassiya district on February 16, 2015, a day after ISIS posted a video depicting the decapitation of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians. (AFP / Khaled Desouki)

• Egypt has launched air strikes against an ISIS affiliate group in Libya.

  [NYT / David Kirkpatrick]

• The attacks follow the group's beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians, killings depicted in a video released last night.

  [BBC]

• The victims "were seized in separate incidents in December and January from the coastal town of Sirte in eastern Libya, under the control of Islamist groups."

  [BBC]

• Egypt is thus de facto intervening in the Second Libyan Civil War, which is being waged between the rebels ("Libya Dawn") who control the capital of Tripoli and the internationally recognized government in the east of the country:

  [Vox / Zack Beauchamp]

Thomas van Linge

• The Islamists and the official Libyan government reached an uneasy ceasefire in January, but fighting has continued and a real political settlement is still far off.

  [Reuters / Feras Bosalum and Ahmed Elumami]

• ISIS and other foreign militant groups are an increasing presence in the country; an ISIS-linked group attacked a luxury hotel and killed eight people last month.

  [NYT / Suliman Ali Zway and David Kirkpatrick]

• There are at least three groups in Libya claiming loyalty to ISIS, in fact.

  [NYT / Eric Schmitt and David Kirkpatrick]

• The presence of ISIS on the Mediterranean has greatly disturbed European officials, with Italian interior minister Angelino Alfano calling on NATO to intervene because "ISIS is at the door."

  [Time / Jared Malsin]

2. Duel of Athens

Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras. (Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

• Greek talks with European finance ministers have broken down, as the new leftist government in Greece is rejecting a six-month extension of the current European "bailout."

  [Reuters / Renee Maltezou and Ingrid Melander]

• The bailout deal was cut between the old Greek government and the European Central Bank and European Commission; it requires Greece to implement massive austerity measures in exchange for financial support.

  [Vox / Matthew Yglesias]

• The central bank will decide Wednesday whether to keep offering emergency lending to Greek banks.

  [Reuters / Renee Maltezou and Ingrid Melander]

• The central bank has used threats to cut off emergency lending to force Ireland and Cyprus into bailout deals, and could be prepared to do the same with Greece.

  [The Economist]

• It's a potent threat: the conventional wisdom is that if the central bank cuts off lending entirely it'll cause Greek banks to fail, and a full-blown financial crisis will ensue.

  [BBC / Andrew Walker and Jasmine Coleman]

• In the best-case scenario, Greece will have to do a "soft exit" from the Euro, as well as impose capital controls to keep foreigners from pulling money from banks. It could end up all right, but it'd still be a de facto abandonment of the Euro.

  [Next New Deal / JW Mason]

• The Europeans are giving a Friday ultimatum for Greece to agree to an extension of the bailout; without the bailout, Greece would likely have to default on their debt and leave the Euro entirely.

  [AP]

• So the Greek government has a dramatic choice, to leave the Euro in full or part, or to accept the very austerity regime it campaigned against.

• That said, there's still a week to hammer out more favorable terms. The government is also suggesting that it may look to China or Russia for financial backing if talks with European leaders don't improve.

  [NYT / James Kanter and Liz Alderman]

3. A shooting in Denmark

A police officer guarding the free speech event. (Lars Ronbog/Getty Images)

• One person was shot to death at an event on free speech and Islam at a Copenhagen cafe Saturday.

  [Vox / Zack Beauchamp]

• The 22-year-old suspected gunman was killed by police in a shootout the day following the attack; two alleged accomplices have been charged.

  [USA Today / Jane Onyanga-Omara]

• The suspect had a history of violence; he was released from prison only two weeks before the shooting.

  [The Guardian / Anngelique Chrisafis]

• The Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who faced death threats for his drawings of Mohammed, was present at the event. It's unknown if he was the target.

  [The Guardian / Chris Johnston]

4. Misc.

• Apple's design director Jony Ive was horrified to learn a fellow VP at the company drove a Camry (Ive prefers Bentleys and Aston Martins).

  [New Yorker / Ian Parker]

• A Brooklyn teenager was arrested for criminal threats because he posted an emoji of a police officer next to three gun emoji on Facebook.

  [Wired / Julia Greenberg]

• Medical research is not as accurate as it should be. This meta-researcher has some interesting suggestions for how to fix that.

  [Vox / Julia Belluz]

• Want to share your entire genome with the internet? There's a social network for that.

  [Fusion / Daniela Hernandez]

• "'This movie is rated PG,' a woman near me says to her friend, 'Pinot Grigio!!!!'"

  [The Hairpin / Monica Heisey]

• "What began as a tale of a young woman falling in love with an older gentleman with kinky tastes has morphed and twisted in the hands of director Sam Taylor-Johnson into a story that involves a young, weather-manipulating woman who falls in love with a teleporting incubus whose greatest weakness is the banal pleasure of contract law."

  [Vox / Alex Abad-Santos]

• "If Stanley Tucci were your boyfriend, you would own a good cheese knife … You would treat yourself with compassion, and you would never eat Cheetos in the shower."

  [The Toast / Mallory Ortberg]

• "People keep taking nude photos at the Angkor temple complex in Cambodia and authorities are all like, 'Come on, guys.'"

  [Slate / Ben Mathis-Lilley]

• "LBJ was, let’s say, informal and to the point, using terms such as 'bunghole,' referring to his 'crotch' as 'down where your nuts hang,' and at one point, audibly burping into the phone."

  [Now I Know / Dan Lewis]

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