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US kills Iran Quds Force leader, Pentagon confirms

General Soleimani was being driven by car at Baghdad airport.

General Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' elite Quds Force, has been killed by US forces in Iraq; the Australian navy has evacuated around 1,000 tourists and residents who were trapped in the fire-ravaged town of Mallacoota on the Victoria coast; and Lebanon has received a "red notice" from Interpol for the arrest of fugitive ex-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn.

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