PARIS (AP) – Iran has allowed two French former detainees, Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris, to leave the country, French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday. They had been holed up in French diplomatic premises there since their release from prison in November.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) – By the time Hasan Piker takes the microphone at two campaign events with a senate candidate in Michigan on Tuesday, the popular but controversial online streamer will have already generated plenty of noise inside the Democratic Party.

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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Three times a week, Asghar Hashemi undergoes dialysis treatment at a hospital in northern Tehran. He fears that if power stations are knocked out, as U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened in escalating rhetoric, his life will be in danger.

YAHSHOUSH, Lebanon (AP) – Church bells and bursts of gunfire echoed across the valley as hundreds gathered for funeral prayers on Tuesday for a Lebanese Christian party official known for his anti-Hezbollah stance and his wife who were killed in an Israeli airstrike over the weekend.

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Justice Department’s new leader said Tuesday that “nobody” other than President Donald Trump knows why Pam Bondi was replaced as attorney general last week.

ISTANBUL (AP) – Turkish lawmakers kicked off a debate Tuesday on a draft law package that includes restricting access to social media platforms for children under 15, making Turkey the latest country to seek measures to protect young people from dangerous online activity.

BAGHDAD (AP) – American journalist Shelly Kittleson, who was kidnapped in Baghdad last week, has been released, an Iraqi official with direct knowledge of the situation said on Tuesday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment publicly, said Kittleson was freed in the afternoon.