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trump withdraws from Iran nuke deal, stabbing, the Islamic responsibility for the attacks in a statement carried
State’s news agency,
by its Aamaq news agency. It didn’t mention anything
raising tensions across the world Amaq, released a about families or children taking part and said there
cellphone video of
were only three attackers. Experts on militant networks
have warned for several years that the estimated 1,100
the attacker pledging
allegiance to the terrorist Indonesians who traveled to Syria to join IS posed a threat
group’s leader, Abu Bakr if they returned home. The latest bombings came days
al-Baghdadi, and issuing after Islamist militant prisoners killed five members of an
In a controversIal move, US President Donald three amerIcans were released from prison in a call to fellow Islamic elite counter-terrorism force during a 36-hour standoff at
Trump withdrew his country from the Iran nuclear deal, North Korea as US President Donald Trump announced State supporters in a high security jail on the outskirts of the capital, Jakarta.
unraveling the signature foreign policy achievement of that he would meet Kim Jong-un, the North Korean France, Germany, Britain
his predecessor Barack Obama. The 2015 agreement autocratic leader, in Singapore on June 12, setting the and elsewhere to carry
was reached by seven countries after more than two date for a once unimaginable encounter. The choice of out attacks. While claiming responsibility for the attack
years of gruelling negotiations. The United States will Singapore, a tidy, prosperous city-state with ties to both hours later, the IS said the attacker was a “soldier of the fresh volcanIc eruptions struck the southern end
now reimpose the stringent sanctions it imposed on Iran the United States and North Korea, is a small victory for Islamic State.” The attacker, identified by the police and of the island of Hawaii after a series of tremors that
before the deal and is considering new penalties. Iran Trump’s advisers, who talked him out of meeting Kim the French news media as 20-year-old Khamzat Azimov, left residents displaced and frightened. The authorities
said it will remain in the deal, which tightly restricted in the Demilitarised Zone between North and South was a naturalised French citizen who was born in 1997 in evacuated two entire subdivisions and the state’s largest
its nuclear ambitions for a decade or more in return for Korea — a far more the Russian republic of Chechnya.The attack happened park. Following days of small earthquakes, a more
ending the sanctions symbolic, but politically near the Palais Garnier, the home of the Paris Opera, on powerful one with a magnitude of 6.9 hit the south flank
that had crippled its problematic, location. the right bank of the Seine, an area popular with both of the volcano. There
economy. France, Pyongyang’s release tourists and Parisians. were fears of a tsunami
Germany and Britain of the Americans lifted but a statement from
also announced their a major obstacle to the Pacific Tsunami
decisions to remain in the the summit meeting. Warning Centre said no
deal, raising the prospect Secretary of State coordInated suIcIde bombings carried out by tsunami was expected
of a trans-Atlantic clash Mike Pompeo, who members of the same family struck three churches in though “many areas
as European companies has taken charge of the Surabaya, Indonesia’s second-largest city. At least seven may have experienced
face the return of diplomatic opening to people died at the churches in Surabaya along with the strong shaking.” That
American sanctions for the North, finalised its six family members, the youngest of whom were girls aged earthquake, which
doing business with Iran. date and location during 9 and 12. Another 41 people were injured. According to set off rock slides on
China and Russia, also signatories to the deal, are likely a 90-minute meeting with Kim Jong-un in the North’s the country’s police, the father detonated a car bomb, two park trails, forced park
to join Iran in accusing the United States of violating the capital. Afterward, Pompeo left with the detainees on his sons aged 18 and 16 used a motorcycle for their attack, officials to close down
accord. Trump’s move could embolden hard-line forces plane. As the two sides discussed potential meeting sites and the mother and her two daughters wore explosives. and evacuate Hawaii
in Iran, raising the threat of Iranian retaliation against — the United States, South Korea, Mongolia, Vietnam The family had returned Volcanoes National Park, which encompasses 333,000
Israel or the US, fuelling an arms race in the Middle East and even a Navy warship anchored in the Pacific — they to Indonesia from Syria, acres — 13 percent of the Big Island’s total area. About
and fanning sectarian conflicts from Syria to Yemen. balanced political issues with practical considerations, like where until recently 2,600 visitors were evacuated from the park on a day
Trump, however, framed his decision as the fulfilment of a whether Kim could fly long distances on North Korea’s the Islamic State group that happened to be a double cruise ship day and when
bedrock campaign promise and as the act of a dealmaker rickety aircraft. controlled significant there were people camping in the backcountry. The park
dissolving a fatally flawed agreement. He claimed that territory. This was one of is so popular that more than two million people visited it
his tough line with Iran would strengthen his hand as he the worst terror attacks in 2017, the year after its centennial. The park will remain
prepared to meet North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, to in the world’s most closed until it is deemed safe to reopen. The United States
begin negotiating the surrender of his nuclear arsenal. The a knIfe-wIeldIng man injured four persons, two of populous Muslim nation Geological Survey counts 169 potentially active volcanoes
United States is now likely to be isolated from its Western them seriously, and killed one in a Paris neighbourhood since the 2002 Bali in the country . About 50 of them in six states are rated
allies before a risky nuclear negotiation with North Korea. while shouting “Allahu Akbar”. A day after the fatal bombings.IS claimed high priority or highest priority for monitoring.

— Compilation and analysis by Ridhima Malhotra

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