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Politico identifieD the 11 senators who might be the most hard to line up behind a Senate bill as Sens. The House included the waivers in the bill before passing it by a one-vote margin in an attempt to win more support for the bill. It's possible that the draft could undergo changes before the bill goes to the floor. Politico reported McConnell faces a tough path within his own party to to get the 50 votes he needs to pass the bill.

The Pentagon vowed to continue all its anti-ISIS operations in Syria after Russia's warning. "We have said before that demonstrated hostile intent and actions of pro-regime forces towards coalition partner forces in Syria that are conducting legitimate counter-Isis operations in Syria, will not be tolerated", Davis said.

The 48-year-old was easily defeated in the French presidential election on May 7 by centrist Emmanuel Macron , earning just 34% of the vote. Pollsters projected Republic on the Move! and its allies could take up to about 360 of the lower chamber's 577 seats.

Iran had earlier insinuated that the U.S. and Saudi Arabia - its chief regional foe - had encouraged the June 7 attacks on Iran's Parliament and the mausoleum of the late Supreme Leader , Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, which killed 17 people.

The Paris prosecutor's office has opened an anti-terror investigation into the incident, an Interior Ministry spokesman said. - In April, a man shot at police officers - also on the Champs-Elysees - killing one officer and wounding two others.

On Sunday, US-led coalition forces shot down a Syrian SU-22 as it was carrying out a mission over the Islamic state stronghold of Raqqa. It was the first time the United States has shot down a Syrian plane, and the first time a US military jet has shot down any manned aircraft since 1999.

Similarly, when it comes to the names of Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, senior leader Murli Manohar Joshi, UP governor Ram Naik, or even Union ministers Thawarchand Gehlot or Sushma Swaraj, other parties believe they are just names for the time being that may or may not emerge as BJP's candidates for the post of either president or vice president.

The statements come just one day after the Revolutionary Guards confirmed it had launched strikes in retaliation for twin attacks in Tehran earlier this month, which killed 18 people and left more than 50 others wounded. There was no official reaction from Syria , which has been backed by Iran as it seeks to force Islamic State forces off of its territory. Iran's attack on Syria failed, as the majority of the Zulqifar missiles missed their target .

A lot of forces with competing aims are at close quarters in eastern Syria . The U.S. military shot down a Syrian government warplane on Sunday, saying it had targeted an American-allied Kurdish force that is battling the extremists in their de facto capital, Raqqa.

Seoul's Defense Ministry said the bombers engaged in routine exercises with South Korean fighter jets aimed at showing deterrence against North Korea. He said his goal as the leader of South Korea is to draw the north "out to the table for negotiations" through pressure or sanctions. North Korea has detained two Korean-American academics and a missionary, a Canadian pastor and three South Korean nationals who were doing missionary work there.

A defeat for Republican candidate Karen Handel will be crushing blow for the president - losing a Republican seat in an overwhelmingly Republican state. In the early-April special election in Kansas for newly-appointed Central Intelligence Agency director Mike Pompeo's former House seat, Democrat James Thompson was defeated by only seven points in a district which President Trump won by 27 points.