Global News Highlights by AP

The European Union agreed Thursday to list Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organisation over Tehran's bloody crackdown on nationwide protests.

Other countries, including the U.S. and Canada, have designated the Guard as a terrorist organisation.

And Senate Democrats have blocked legislation to fund the Department of Homeland Security and several other agencies. Thursday's 45-55 test vote came as Democrats have threatened a partial government shutdown when money runs out on Friday.(January 29)