NATO CEREMONY IN LITHUANIA
IRAN’S SUPREME LEADER MOCKS TRUMP’S THREATS
Iran’s supreme leader mocked President Trump on Tuesday, thanking “Mr. Newcomer” for revealing “the real face” of human rights with his contentious executive order that would ban citizens from Iran and six other nations from entering the United States.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in an address to Iranian military commanders posted on his website, also scoffed at Trump for tweeting that Iran was “playing with fire” by conducting a missile test last week. Iranians should appreciate how kind Obama was to them by easing sanctions, Trump said, adding “Not me!”
Khamenei urged Iranians to rally against the United States on Friday, the anniversary of the nation’s 1979 revolution that overthrew the U.S.-backed government of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. — John Bacon
TRIPLE-MURDER SUSPECT KILLS SELF IN GEORGIA
Authorities say one of two people wanted in the deaths of three women and the attempted killing of another, killed himself Tuesday afternoon, ending a standoff at a west Georgia motel and a multistate crime spree.
Florida’s Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan said he has been told that William Boyette has died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound and that Mary Rice surrendered.
Law officials responded to a tip Tuesday and found Boyette and Rice holed up at a motel in West Point, Ga., along with a car that was stolen Monday from from Kayla Crocker’s home in Pensacola, Fla. Crocker, 28, was shot and died Tuesday afternoon.
— Pensacola News Journal
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At least 20 people were killed Tuesday in Kabul when a suicide bomber blew himself up near a gate at the Afghan Supreme Court, authorities said. The Ministry of Public Health said the blast wounded dozens of others.
Syrian authorities hanged as many as 13,000 people in a fouryear period as part of a “systematic attack against the civilian population,” a report by Amnesty International said Tuesday. The executions took place at the Saydnaya military prison between September 2011 and December 2015, the human rights organization says.