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Trump and Iranian Leader Exchange Threats

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07/23/2018

07/23/2018

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Trump and Iranian Leader Exchange Threats

Top News: President Donald Trump and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani shot sharp insults at each other in an escalation of tensions between the two countries, with Trump declaring on Twitter Iran would “suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before” if it continues to threaten the United States.

Rouhani earlier warned the United States that it would face the “mother of all wars” if it goes to war with Iran, and the U.S. administration should not “play with the lion’s tail, because you will regret it eternally.”

Trump entered office vowing to ratchet up pressure on Iran, and in May withdrew from the nuclear deal between Iran, the United States, and other world powers. Since then, his administration has unveiled plans to ramp up sanctions against the Iranian regime, accusing Tehran of supporting terrorism and destabilizing the Middle East.

“Right now, the United States is undertaking a diplomatic and financial pressure campaign to cut off the funds that the regime uses to enrich itself and support death and destruction,” U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a speech on Sunday.

Canada: One woman was killed and 13 were wounded after a gunman opened fire on a busy street in Toronto on Sunday evening. The perpetrator, wielding a handgun is also dead, according to Canadian police. Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders told reporters police are looking into “every possible motive, including terrorism.” Toronto’s mayor, John Tory, admitted that the shooting was “evidence of a gun problem” in the city.

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AFRICA

•  New Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed called for opening the country to a multiparty democracy.

•  The White House criticized new legislation in South Sudan meant to prolong the ruling government’s rule and said it undercut paths to peace.

•  Chinese President Xi Jinping began a tour of Africa in Senegal, seeking to extend Chinese influence on the continent.

AMERICAS

•  The Federal Bureau of Investigation believes Carter Page, former campaign advisor to President Donald Trump “collaborated and conspired” with the Russian government during the 2016 presidential elections, according to a newly-declassified surveillance application.

•  Cuban lawmakers kept most cabinet ministers in place as the country formed a new government under President Miguel Diaz-Canel.

•  Former members of the leftist guerrilla group FARC took their seats in Colombia’s parliament for the first time.

ASIA

•  Fourteen people died in a suicide bombing in Kabul that narrowly avoided hitting Afghanistan’s vice president.

•  A Pakistani politician from former cricket star Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party was killed in a suicide bombing just days before national elections on Wednesday.

•  Cambodian opposition leaders have been silenced and sidelined ahead of the country’s elections this month.

EUROPE

•  A corruption investigation cleared Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat of wrongdoing.

•  French lawmakers grilled the interior minister, Gérard Collomb, after a video surfaced of a top security aide to President Emmanuel Macron beating up a protester.

•  Nine people were injured in a knife attack on a bus in Germany.

MIDDLE EAST

•  Israel’s military organized the evacuation of hundreds of Syrian White Helmet rescue workers, via Israeli territory into Jordan. As many as 300 remain trapped by fighting in Syria.

•  Twenty-five people were injured in an earthquake in southeastern Iran, one day after another earthquake injured 290 people.

•  Civilians are fleeing the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah amid a pause in fighting between Houthi rebels and government forces backed by the United Arab Emirates.

- By Robbie Gramer

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