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The state-run Irna news agency referred to the sanctions as a “reciprocal act,” without elaborating.
2 Militant killed: A U.S. air strike this month in eastern Afghanistan killed an al Qaeda leader responsible for a deadly hotel attack in Islamabad in 2008 and a 2009 attack on a bus carrying the Sri Lankan cricket team, the Pentagon said.
U.S. officials said Qari Yasin had plotted multiple al Qaeda terror attacks, including the Sept. 20, 2008, bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad that killed dozens.
At least four people were killed and 23 others wounded in a grenade attack in the southern Philippines that appeared unrelated to terrorism, officials said Sunday.
Faqha, who was given nine life sentences for directing suicide bombing attacks against Israelis, was freed in 2011 as part of an exchange for captive Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit.
Police in the capital of Minsk arrested demonstrators Sunday who were demanding to know the whereabouts of friends and relatives detained in the breakup of a mass protest the day before.
The protests, organized by Shiite Houthi rebels supporting former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, called for an end to the conflict, which has killed more than 10,000 civilians, displaced more than 3 million people, and pushed the impoverished country to the brink of famine.