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Deadly Suicide Bombing Targets Iran’s Revolutionary Guard

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02/14/2019

02/14/2019

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Deadly Suicide Bombing Targets Iran’s Revolutionary Guard

Top News: Twenty-seven members of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard were killed and thirteen injured after a suicide bombing attack in southeastern Iran near the border with Pakistan.

Jash-al Adl, a Sunni group, claimed credit for the attack against the Shiite forces. It is considered one of the deadliest terrorist attacks on Iranian forces in years.

Iran’s government blamed it on Sunni extremism and “mercenaries of the intelligence services of hegemonic powers.”

Saudi Arabia: U.S. federal law enforcement agencies launched a probe into students from Saudi Arabia fleeing the United States with the help of the Saudi government after being accused of serious crimes. Saudi students fled the country in at least eight different states after being charged with crimes including rape and manslaughter, according to an investigation by the Oregonian.

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AFRICA

•  At least five people died after an illicit gold mine in Liberia collapsed.

•  U.S. and Libyan forces conducted a joint raid on an al Qaeda stronghold in the city of Ubari, Libyan officials say.

•  Fifteen people were killed and at least a dozen people injured in a stampede at an election campaign rally for Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari.

AMERICAS

•  A federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, lied to prosecutors and voided his plea deal.

•  The U.S. Department of Defense released a new strategy for artificial intelligence.

•  Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said Trump’s meeting in Washington with Colombian President Ivan Duque was a “feast of hate against Venezuela.”

ASIA

•  Thirteen same-sex couples sued the Japanese government over the right to marriage. Same-sex marriage is currently banned in Japan.

•  The CEO of a media company in the Philippines critical of President Rodrigo Duterte, Maria Ressa, who was arrested on libel charges, has been released on bail.

•  U.S. and Chinese negotiators met for trade talks to avoid escalating a trade war.

EUROPE

•  NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the alliance wants to counter Russia’s violation of a missile treaty without sparking an arms race.

•  Under its right-wing government, Italy has rejected 24,800 asylum applications in the past four months, a record number.

•  Dozens of former senior British diplomats warned Prime Minister Theresa May her Brexit push was turning into a “national crisis.”

MIDDLE EAST

•  U.S. sanctions on Iran are damaging its economy, but have not yet pushed Tehran to change its behavior.

•  The United States charged a former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer with spying for Iran. The officer, Monica Witt, reportedly defected to Iran in 2013.

•  The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution that would curb the Trump administration’s ability to involve U.S. troops in the conflict in Yemen.

- By Robbie Gramer

(BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images)

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