Machete attacker Vladimir Putin’s thugs shot in Paris meddle with an American election, and President Trump gives them a thank you present. @NancyPelosi Saturday, February 4, 2017 Issue No. 7282 Today’s Weather 200 Fils Max Min www.newsofbahrain.com www.facebook.com/nobonline newsofbahrain 38444680 nob_bh 8P 02 15°C 9°C Washington Yemen, who recently targeted yesterday new measures scrutinizing Iran’s networks, administration official told resident Donald Trump a Saudi warship. The sanctions would not be the last. looking for evidence reporters. “The launch of the raised the stakes in do not, officials say, mark a “Iran is playing with fire of extremist funding missile was the triggering PWashington’s increasingly retreat from US commitments -- they don’t appreciate how and advanced weapons event.” tense stand-off with Iran under the Iran nuclear deal ‘kind’ President Obama was procurement. Washington is also yesterday, slapping fresh to lift measures targeting to them. Not The immediate trigger concerned about attacks by sanctions on Tehran’s Tehran’s alleged bid to build me!” Trump for the sanctions was Iran’s Huthi rebels, a powerful faction weapons procurement a nuclear warhead. tweeted test, on Sunday, of a ballistic in Yemen’s civil war which US network. But Trump has made no missile that US officials intelligence believes is armed Officials said the new secret of his contempt for the yesterday. judge to have been capable and supported by Iran. measures were in response to accord, which his predecessor U S of one day carrying a nuclear This week Huthi forces Iran’s recent ballistic missile Barack Obama approved in intelligence warhead. attacked a Saudi warship test and its support for Huthi July 2015, and officials and Treasury But the latest detailed list of operating off Yemen and a rebels in said officials are entities added to the list has US official said yesterday: constantly clearly been in preparation “We’re very concerned about for some time, and the White freedom of navigation in the House has said “nothing is off Bab el-Mandeb area.” the table” in dealing with Iran. The senior official said “We are undertaking a larger Iran was “not necessarily strategic review,” a senior US responsible for every tactical decision” made by Huthi forces, but that it will be made to bear responsibility for its x “proxies.” The United States has already protested Iran announces about Iran’s ‘reciprocal action’ missile test at the United Nations, Tehran arguing it was ran has announced it will “inconsistent” take “reciprocal action” with UN againstI US individuals Security Council and companies after US A BIG Resolution 2231. imposed new sanctions on - AFP Tehran over its weapons procurement network. Iran will impose legal limitations for American individuals and companies that have had a role in the creation and support of terrorist groups in the region,” the NEW SANCTIONS foreign ministry said US revoked 60,000 visas after Trump order Washington SLAP he United States revoked 60,000 travel visasT after President Donald Trump ordered a ban on visitors from seven mainly- Muslim countries, the State Department said yesterday, said a spokesman. 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Bahrain Embassy in France closed the area surrounding entered France on January 26, sources said. still reeling from a string of Security has been one of yesterday issued an advisory the Louvre. We advise citizens probe sources said. In his visa request to come terror attacks over the last the campaign themes ahead to Bahraini citizens in Paris. to remain cautious and to The man is thought to to France he declared that he two years and under a state of of the presidential election The embassy stated on its avoid the area.” have landed in France on was Egyptian. emergency since November in April and May, which is 2015. followed by a parliamentary Witnesses described election in June. Paris scenes of panic as shoppers, Rightwing candidate French soldier patrolling sightseers and workers fled Francois Fillon, whose at the Louvre museum the Louvre complex following tough line on immigration Ashot and seriously injured a the incident. and Islam had helped make machete-wielding attacker “We heard gunshots. We him the presidential yesterday, thrusting security didn’t know what it was favourite, has been ensnared and the terror threat back about. Then we evacuated in a damaging parliamentary into the limelight three the employees and we left,” expenses scandal in the last months before elections. a man who works in a nearby week. Police held hundreds of restaurant said, asking not to The incident came on tourists in secure areas of the be named. the very day that Paris was renowned tourist attraction A woman colleague said: submitting its formal bid after the assailant was shot “We saw death coming dossier to host the 2024 five times around 10:00 am for us, with everything that’s Summer Olympics. (0900 GMT) in a public area happening at the moment. The Louvre was already near one of the museum’s We were very scared.” suffering from a fall in visitor entrances. Police raided a building numbers after the series of The knifeman, who yelled in central Paris as part of attacks in France. “Allahu Akbar” (“God is the probe into the attack, a Over the last two years, greatest”), is in a serious source in the inquiry said. numbers have fallen by about condition. One soldier Thousands of troops have two million, imperilling its received a “minor” head been deployed to guard claim to be the most visited wound and has been taken to the capital, with groups of museum in the world. hospital, security forces said. soldiers carrying automatic The Louvre was closed Prime Minister Bernard rifles a regular sight inside yesterday in the wake of the Cazeneuve said the incident, the Louvre and around its attack, but will re-open on which will heap more misery sculpture-filled gardens. today. - (AFP) Police stand on a sidewalk as a search is conducted as part of the investigation into the attack 2 Saturday, February 4, 2017 Saturday, February 4, 2017 3 Machete attacker Heavy winds shot at Louvre destroy A screengrab shows the wrecked boats near Muharraq coast People stand in front of the Louvre museum in Paris fishing boats on the city’s struggling City police chief Michel Embassy alerts Bahraini citizens Probe says suspect is Egyptian tourism sector, was “terrorist Cadot told reporters that a Muhannad Mansour/DTNN yesterday warned of very all of Muharraq’s coastlines, for the fishermen. 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