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(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. Here’s what you need to know: • Britain goes to the polls. Prime Minister Theresa May called the snap election hoping for a landslide and a strong mandate to negotiate the country’s departure from the European Union.

Iran’s foreign minister denounced on Thursday the response by the United States to a pair of deadly assaults in Tehran as “repugnant,” as the death toll in the attacks rose by one to 13. Armed assailants carried out brazen attacks on two high-profile sites on Wednesday — Parliament, and the mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic — that also wounded more than 50 people and added to tensions in the Middle East. There was a heightened police

WASHINGTON — Rarely has the Trump administration spoken of Iran other than to condemn it as the world’s chief sponsor of terrorism and an aspiring nuclear weapons state.

Armed assailants, including some disguised as women, stunned Iran on Wednesday with brazen attacks on the Parliament building and the tomb of its revolutionary founder, the worst terrorist strike to hit the Islamic republic in years. At least 12 people were killed and 46 were wounded in the near-simultaneous assaults, which lasted for hours, clearly took Iran’s elite security forces by surprise and shattered the self-proclaimed image of calm in a turbulent region. The six known

SAN FRANCISCO — Uber has fired a senior executive who obtained the medical records of a woman who was raped by an Uber driver in India, the latest example of misconduct unearthed at the ride-hailing giant. Eric Alexander, Uber’s president of business in Asia, was terminated on Tuesday after reporters began asking questions about his actions, according to three people familiar with the matter who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about it. The episode provides more ammunition to critics of Uber who say the company’s top officials have set a tone that fosters

Greg Gianforte, the Montana Republican charged with assaulting a reporter the night before he won a seat in the House of Representatives last month, formally apologized to the reporter on Wednesday and said he would donate $50,000 to a journalism nonprofit as part of a settlement. Mr. Gianforte wrote in a letter to the reporter, Ben Jacobs of The Guardian, that his actions on May 24 were “unprofessional, unacceptable and unlawful.” In the apology, Mr.

Gov. Sam Brownback’s leadership of Kansas came to be synonymous with a single, unyielding philosophy: Cut taxes, cut the size of government, and the state will thrive. But this week, Mr. Brownback’s deeply conservative state turned on him and his austere approach.

YANGON, Myanmar — Searchers found bodies and debris on Thursday from a military transport plane that disappeared with 122 people on board shortly after taking off Wednesday afternoon from an air base in the southern part of Myanmar, military officials said. The plane was carrying relatives of Myanmar soldiers, including children, as well as 14 crew members, and there was no word yet on whether there were any survivors. The plane was found in the Andaman Sea about 40 miles fr

FRANKFURT — Forward guidance might sound like something to mount on the dashboard of a car. But in the world of monetary policy it is a crucial concept, one that will be the focus of the European Central Bank’s meeting on Thursday. The bank is preparing to ease off on the stimulus it has been providing to the eurozone economy.