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America and Britain launched strikes against 36 hooty targets in Yemen.

Lloyd Austin, America's defense secretary, said the Iran-backed rebel group would bear further consequences

if it continues to target shipping vessels in the Red Sea.

The strikes followed an American aerial assault on Iran-linked military sites in Iraq and

Syria on Friday night. Iran's foreign ministry condemned that attack,

calling it an adventurous and strategic mistake

that will increase tension in the region.

Lawmakers in Northern Ireland appointed Michelle O'Neill of Sinn Féin as first minister,

the first time a nationalist has led the province. The move came after the pro-British Democratic Unionist Party agreed to return to the

power sharing government after a two-year absence, having reached a deal with Britain's

government over post-Brexit trading agreements,

Ms O'Neill called her appointment a new dawn.

Senegor's president, Maci Sal, indefinitely postponed the country's presidential election, which had been

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