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Shafaq News/ The new leader of Islamic State, whose appointment the group announced on Thursday, is the brother of slain former caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, according to two Iraqi security officials and one Western security source.Islamic State named its new leader Abu al-Hassan al-Hashemi al-Quraishi in a recorded audio message distributed