Iranian drone attack kills two US soldiers
7/19/202630 min
Two American soldiers have been killed and a third is missing following an attack on a military base in Jordan on Friday. US Central Command said the troops died while defending against Iranian ballistic missile and drone strikes. Also: Ukraine strikes warehouses of "Russian Amazon" in revenge attack. Cuban dissident artist Otero Alcantara exiled after five years in prison arrives in the US. We hear about the new Netflix immmersive psychological horror game Unhinged. President Trump threatens new Canada tariffs over wildfires sending "filthy" air into US cities. And Kylian Mbappe becomes World Cup record scorer as England beat France to finish third in the competition.
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[instrumental music] This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Will Chalk. And in the early hours of Sunday the 19th of July, these are our main stories: Iranian attacks on Jordan have killed two American servicemen. Another US service member is still unaccounted for. Two warehouses belonging to