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Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in a stories. included a senior IRGC intelligence official.

Five Syrians are also believed to have died in the blast.

Israel has made no comment.

Suspected Israeli strikes have recently killed an IRGC member near the Syrian capital, as well as Hamas officials in Beirut.

Tens of thousands of people, 50,000 in Hamburg alone, gathered in towns across Germany

to protest against the Hard Right alternative for Germany Party.

The protests followed the revelation that late last year senior AFD members had

discussed plans for the large-scale deportation of migrants. The AFD has just

78 of the Bundestag's 736 seats, but polls suggest it is the country's second most popular party. Iran said it had successfully launched a satellite placing it in an orbit 750

kilometers above the Earth's surface. The country's space agency did not specify the satellite's purpose.

America has previously warned that Iran's satellite launches breach a UN Security Council resolution, and may hasten Iran's ability

to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles.

The Speaker of the Lower House of Russia's Parliament said lawmakers were preparing a bill to permit the confiscation of property from people spreading deliberately false information about the armed forces or calling for sanctions against the country.

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