NEWS OF THE DAY

_1 Iran threat: The chief of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard threatened Saturday to go after everyone who had a role in a top general’s January killing during a U.S. drone strike in Iraq. “Mr. Trump! Our revenge for martyrdom of our great general is obvious, serious and real.” the guard’s website quoted Gen. Hossein Salami as saying. President Trump warned last week that Washington would harshly respond to any Iranian attempts to take revenge for the death of Gen. Qassem Soleimani. The warning came in response to a report that Iran was plotting to assassinate the U.S. ambassador to South Africa in retaliation. Salami rejected the report.

_2 Opposition rally: Thousands of demonstrators defied police warnings and rallied in Thailand’s capital on Saturday to support the demands of a studentled protest movement for new elections and reform of the monarchy. Organizers predicted that as many as 50,000 people would take part in the twoday protest in Bangkok. A march is planned for Sunday. The core demands declared by the protesters are the dissolution of parliament with fresh elections, a new constitution and an end to intimidation of political activists. Arrests for earlier actions on charges including sedition have failed to faze the young activists.

_3 Quake collapse: The owner of an elementary school that collapsed in Mexico City during a 2017 earthquake has been found guilty of charges equivalent to manslaughter. The collapse killed 26 people in the magnitude 7.1 earthquake. Prosecutors have requested a sentence of 57 years for Monica Garcia Villegas. Sentencing will be held this week. The collapse killed 19 children and seven adults. Officials have said Garcia Villegas’ decision to build an apartment atop the school contributed to the collapse. _4 Ethiopia unrest: Jawar Mohammed, Ethiopia’s most prominent opposition figure, and 23 others have been charged with terrorismrelated offenses and other crimes, the attorney general’s office said Saturday. The charges relate to deadly violence that erupted in July in parts of the capital, Addis Ababa, and the Oromia region after the killing of singer Hachalu Hundessa, a leading voice in antigovernment protests that led to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed coming to power in 2018. Authorities said more than 180 people were killed in the July unrest. Jawar has become fiercely critical of the Ethiopian leader.

_5 Deadly storm: Two people have died and one is missing in the central Greece region of Thessaly after a storm pounded parts of the country and caused flooding. A woman was found dead in her flooded home, and a shepherd was swept away by rising flood waters. The country’s firefighting service said Saturday that it had fielded almost 2,500 calls seeking assistance from residents in central and western Greece. Water from a river that burst its banks damaged at least two bridges and several buildings, including a health center in Mouzaki.

_6 Putin foe: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Saturday that he is recovering his verbal and physical abilities at the German hospital where he is being treated for suspected nerve agent poisoning. Navalny, the most visible opponent of President Vladimir Putin, fell ill on a domestic flight on Aug. 20 and was transferred to Berlin for treatment two days later. A German military lab later determined he was poisoned with Novichok, the same class of Sovietera agent that Britain said was used on a former Russian spy and his daughter in England, in 2018.