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US defense
chief in Saudi
Arabia to
reassure after
IRAN DEAL
U.S. DEFENSE Secretary Ash Carter flew into Saudi The conservative, mainly Sunni Muslim kingdom lukewarm public praise, coupled with private
Arabia for meetings on Wednesday with King Salman is engaged in a contest for power with Shi’ite Iran condemnation.
and his security leadership to reassure the kingdom of stretching across the region. It fears the nuclear deal Prince Bandar bin Sultan, a former head of the
America’s support after Washington struck a nuclear will free Tehran from international pressure and kingdom’s intelligence services, cautioned last week
deal with its arch-rival Iran. sanctions, giving it more room to back allies in proxy that Iran’s nuclear deal would allow it to “wreak
Carter said ahead of his trip that he aimed to discuss wars, from Yemen to Syria. havoc in the region.”
American strategy to counter “Iranian aggression” in Since Salman took power earlier this year, Riyadh has President Barack Obama, however, has forcefully
the region, as well as the fight against Islamic State. pursued a more muscular approach to Iran, launching argued that the deal will make the United States and
Officials say the talks will cover cooperation with a war against allies of Tehran in Yemen and providing its allies safer by removing the threat of a nuclear Iran.
Saudi Arabia in areas like missile defense and cyber more help for rebels fighting against Syrian president Carter’s trip has been designed to deliver that message
and maritime security, although no new arms deals Bashar al-Assad. and has included two days of meetings this week in
are expected. So far its response to the nuclear deal has been Israel, which fiercely opposes the agreement.
Singer Chris Brown BARRED
from LEAVING Philippines
amid contract dispute
AWARD-winning U.S. singer Chris Brown has been promoter John Michael Pio Roda were both subject to he was accused of committing a hit-and-run in Los
barred from leaving the Philippines because of a an immigration lookout bulletin, but they could seek Angeles; and he was accused of felony assault after
contract dispute, the official Philippines News Agency a clearance certificate that could allow them to leave an incident outside a W Hotel in Washington.
reported Wednesday. if the Department of Justice consented. Those incidents added up, along with a positive
Brown was stopped Wednesday morning while It’s not the first time that the chart-topping star has marijuana test and prosecutors’ claim that Brown
preparing to depart on a private jet from Manila’s run into trouble with authorities. didn’t finish his court-mandated community labor.
international airport on his way to Hong Kong for a A few months after Billboard named him Artist of the He entered rehab in 2013 to “gain insight into his past
concert. Year, Brown assaulted his then-girlfriend Rihanna -- and recent behavior,” his representative said, only to
another popular singer -- inside a rented Lamborghini get kicked out of the facility for smashing his mother’s
The Philippine Department of Justice said that an on the eve of the Grammy Awards in February 2009. car window during a family session, according to his
order had been issued Tuesday night to stop any He pleaded guilty that June to one felony assault probation officer.
attempts by Brown, 26, to leave the country. count, after which he was put on probation for five
Brown performed a concert that evening as planned, years, ordered to serve 180 days of labor-oriented Brown entered another rehab facility, only to leave in
but the order was put in place to compel him to pay service and made to take a yearlong domestic violence 2014. He was then taken into custody by Los Angeles
back money that promoters said was owed to them class. County sheriff’s deputies after a judge revoked his
after he failed to appear for a previous appearance He made a public apology but didn’t stay out of probation. He was released from jail in June 2014.
scheduled for last New Year’s Eve. trouble. In 2012, he had an altercation with rapper Last week, the artist was the apparent victim of
That concert was supposed to take place at the Drake at a New York club. The next year, a woman crime after armed intruders burst into his Southern
Philippine Arena in Bulacan, north of Manila. accused Brown of shoving her at a club in Anaheim, California home and locked his aunt in a closet,
The Bureau of Immigration said Brown and his California, bringing an assault and battery claim; according to police.
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