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• 19 Jun

KEY STORYLINES

• AFRICA: Suspected Boko Haram jihadists killed at least 31 Nigerians in a twin suicide bomb attack on the town of Damboa in Borno state a local official and militia leader said.
• AMERICAS: Guatemala called off a search for the nearly 200 people missing since Fuego volcano erupted earlier this month, devastating the surrounding countryside.
• ASIA:  A suicide bomber struck in the Afghan city of Jalalabad, killing at least 19 people while the Taliban later rejected an extension of the cease-fire that had ran during Eid.
• EUROPE: Hardliners of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc are poised to give the leader an ultimatum to tighten asylum rules or risk pitching the country into a political crisis, as tensions over migration reignite across the EU.
• MIDDLE EAST: The US-led coalition against the Islamic State group denied Syrian government accusations that it carried out a deadly overnight air strike on pro-regime forces in the country’s east.
• TECHNOLOGY:  Uber has launched a registration portal for women in Saudi Arabia after the kingdom allowed them to drive.

TOP STORY

• Colombia: Conservative Ivan Duque elected in Presidential runoff.
  • Duque won comfortably with 54% of the vote, while opponent Gustavo Petro won only 41.7%.
  • His victory continues the trend of conservative, pro-US leadership in the country.
  • He is known as the protege of former President Alvaro Uribe, who advocated a hard line against leftist guerrillas.
  • Duque has opposed the peace treaty with the FARC, and in his victory speech announced that “corrections” had to be made.
  • Former FARC leaders have asked to meet with him regarding the future of the agreement.
  • The presidents of Guatemala and Mexico issued statements offering Duque their congratulations.
  • Reporting: EFE, WaPo, AP, AFP, Reuters

AFRICA

• DR Congo: Former vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba “can return” home if he wants to, following his acquittal on appeal of war crimes, Kinshasa said. (AFP)
• Kenya: Five police officers and three reservists were killed when their vehicle hit a homemade landmine in Wajir, a government official said. (AFP)
• Nigeria: Suspected Boko Haram jihadists killed at least 31 people in a twin suicide bomb attack on the town of Damboa in Borno state a local official and militia leader said. (AFP)

AMERICAS

• Guatemala: Authorities called off a search for the nearly 200 people missing since Fuego volcano erupted earlier this month, devastating the surrounding countryside. (AFP)
• United States: Lawmakers upped the ante on the thorny issue of the separation of migrant children from their parents at the US border, as First Lady Melania Trump made a rare political plea to end the deeply controversial practice. (AFP)
• United States: At least five people were killed and several others hurt as an SUV carrying more than a dozen people during a suspected “smuggling event” crashed while fleeing from Border Patrol agents in South Texas, authorities said. (AP)

ASIA

• Region: South Korea has angered Japan by staging military drills near a contested island chain, even as it discusses scaling back joint “war games” with the US to de-escalate tensions with North Korea. (CNN)
• Afghanistan: A suicide bomber struck in the city of Jalalabad, killing at least 19 people while the Taliban later rejected an extension of the cease-fire that had ran during Eid. (AP)
• Papua New Guinea: The government declared a state of emergency in the Southern Highlands after an armed mob went on the rampage, torching a passenger plane and the local governor’s house. (AFP)
• Philippines: A military official says airstrikes and ground assaults have targeted a group of Islamic State group-linked militants, including their leader, who helped lead a five-month siege in southern Marawi city last year. (AP)

EUROPE

• Region:  The foreign ministers of Greece and Macedonia endorsed an agreement to resolve a long fight over Macedonia’s name during a signing ceremony filled with history and symbolism. (AP)
• Germany: Hardliners of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc are poised to give the leader an ultimatum to tighten asylum rules or risk pitching the country into a political crisis, as tensions over migration reignite across the EU. (AFP)
• Netherlands: A van struck four people at the country’s largest music festival, killing one of them and injuring the others before driving off, with the suspect later arrested. (Reuters)
• Turkey: The jailed presidential candidate for the pro-Kurdish opposition made his first television appearance in over a year and a half , giving a campaign speech ahead of next week’s elections. (Reuters)

MIDDLE EAST

• Iran: Tehran has executed a member of a Sufi order who rammed a bus into police as they tried to disperse a rally, killing three of them. (AP)
• Iraq: Islamic State militants killed two truck drivers and kidnapped 15 people in two separate overnight attacks in Kirkuk and Baghdad, official sources said. (Xinhua)
• Syria: The US-led coalition against the Islamic State group denied Syrian government accusations that it carried out a deadly overnight air strike on pro-regime forces in the country’s east. (AFP)

TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATIONS

• Technology: Uber has launched a registration portal for women in Saudi Arabia after the kingdom allowed them to drive. (Mubasher)

WORLD

• Cyclones:
  • Tropical Depression Carlotta
    • Location: 35 MI SW of Lazaro Cardenes, Mexico
    • Movement: NW at 4 MPH
    • Wind: 30 MPH
    • MAP
• Hurricanes: Nothing to report
• Earthquakes:
  • Location: Osaka, Japan
  • Depth: 8 MI
  • Casualties: 3 dead, 241 injured
  • Reporting
• Volcanoes: Nothing to report
• Global Disease Outbreaks:

• • Ebola Virus Disease:
    • Confirmed Cases as of 13UN18: 38 (DR Congo)
    • Suspected Cases as of 13JUN18: 14 (DR Congo)
    • Deaths as of 13JUN18: 28 (DR Congo)
    • Sourcing: WHO

TOMORROW’S OUTLOOK (19 JUN)

• Global: International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict – 2008
• Bhutan: Birth Anniversary of Guru Rinpoche – Unknown
• Hungary: Day of Independent Hungary – 1956
• Korean Peninsula: Dano Festival – Unknown
• Switzerland: Arctic Science Summit Week & Open Science Conference to open in Davos (to 23JUN)
• Trinidad and Tobago: Labor Day -1937

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