NAHARIYA, Israel (AP) – Israel’s government is objecting to the White House announcement of leaders who will play a role in overseeing next steps in Gaza. The rare criticism from Israel of its close ally in Washington says the Gaza executive committee “was not coordinated with Israel and is contrary to its policy,” without details.
LONDON (AP) – With one puff of a cigarette, a woman in Canada became a global symbol of defiance against Iran’s bloody crackdown on dissent – and the world saw the flame. A video that has gone viral in recent days shows the woman – who described herself as an Iranian refugee – snapping open a lighter and setting the flame to a photo she holds.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – As Iran returned to uneasy calm after a wave of protests that drew a harsh crackdown, a senior hard-line cleric called Friday for the death penalty for detained demonstrators and directly threatened U.S. President Donald Trump – evidence of the rage gripping authorities in the Islamic Republic.
BEIRUT (AP) – Robina Aminian’s family believes the college student was killed by a bullet fired by Iranian security forces straight into the back of her head. In the aftermath of the killing, Aminian’s mother had to look through piles of bloodied corpses to find her daughter’s body.
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) – An Iranian Kurdish separatist group in Iraq said it has launched attacks on Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard in recent days in retaliation for Tehran’s violent crackdown on protests. Members of the National Army of Kurdistan have “played a role in the protests through both financial support and armed operations to defend protesters when needed”.
DEIR HAFER, Syria (AP) – A U.S. military delegation arrived in a contested area of northern Syria on Friday following rising tensions between the Syrian government and a Kurdish-led force that controls much of the northeast.
ADEN, Yemen (AP) – A large crowd of protesters rallied in southern Yemen on Friday to call for the secession of the south and to show support for an Emirati-backed southern separatist group more than a week after it dismantled itself.
LONDON (AP) – The chief of the British police force that recommended that fans from Israeli soccer team Maccabi Tel Aviv be banned from attending a football match against English Premier League side Aston Villa in Birmingham last year retired Friday following criticism of that decision.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) – South Africa launched an investigation Friday over the participation of Iranian warships in naval drills off its coast after reports that organizers ignored the president’s instructions that the ships only take up observer status so as not to inflame tensions with the United States.
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