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1. As tensions simmer between U.S. and Iran, Iraq is feeling the heat

   

   Of the many proxy battlegrounds between Iran and the U.S., Iraq is one of the most overlooked, at least outside the Middle East. But U.S. reaction to the reappearance on the political scene of former Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki — a candidate for the job once more — is a sharp reminder of the tightrope Iraq walks between the two.

2. Republicans, Democrats want to hear from government about anti-drone laser that closed El Paso airport

   

   The brief shutdown of El Paso airport by the Federal Aviation Administration because of safety ‌concerns posed by the use of a military laser-based anti-drone system was unacceptable, said the top Democrat on the Senate's commerce committee said on Thursday.

3. Canadian mining company employees worked amid gunfire, Mexican cartel checkpoints, says family member

   

   Vizsla Silver Corp.'s workers laboured in an environment punctured by gunfire, cartel checkpoints and drones, says the brother of a geologist with the Canadian mining company in Mexico, who was among five people found dead after they were kidnapped by a suspected faction of the Sinaloa cartel.

4. Trump border czar says controversial Minneapolis immigration operation to end

   

   The immigration crackdown in Minnesota that led to mass detentions, protests and the deaths of two U.S. citizens is nearing an end, U.S. President Donald Trump's border czar said Thursday.

5. Why is the U.S. cutting Cuba off from the rest of the world? | About That

   

   U.S. President Donald Trump is applying severe economic pressure to an already-strained Cuba mired in a food and power crisis. Andrew Chang explains why the U.S. is choosing now to cut off the country's oil supply, and why, for Trump and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, it's also personal.