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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Janet Jalil and in the early hours of Saturday the 3rd of February, these are our main stories.

U.S. officials say the United States has begun airstrikes against Iranian targets in Syria and Iraq,

in retaliation for Sunday's drone attack in Jordan that killed three

American military personnel. More than 800 officials in the US and Europe have signed a

joint statement saying that the governments they serve

risk being complicit in war crimes in Gaza.

An Italian minister has resigned amid allegations of stolen art and corruption.

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real-life clownfish may have the ability to count as well as their animation counterparts.

For days now, the US has signaled that it was planning to retaliate to a drone

attack by an Iranian-backed group that killed three American soldiers in

Jordan on Sunday. Now five days after the deaths of those soldiers the US has begun

...