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Back from the weekend.

Ready to go with the new day of CNN STUDENT NEWS.

Hi, everyone.

I'm Carl Azuz.

We're going to be all over the map today.

Our first stop is in the Middle East.

We've reported on Syria's civil war for a while now.

There have been concerns about the violence spreading to neighboring countries like Turkey.

This weekend, two car bombs exploded in the Turkish town that's on the border with Syria.

At least 46 people were killed, around 100 others were wounded.

Turkish officials are blaming the attacks on Syria.

A Syrian official says this country doesn't have anything to do with it.

The fighting in Syria has spilled over the boarder into Turkey before.

Turkey has increased security forces in the area and it's NATO allies have installed missile defense systems there.

Let's head back now.

Across the Atlantic, to Guatemala.

On Friday, a group of judges there reached a surprising verdict in a very important case.

It ruled that this man, Efrain Rios Montt was guilty of genocide, mass murder.

Montt was a dictator who ruled Guatemala in part of the early 1980s.

This is the first time that any country's leader has been tried for genocide by his own judicial system.

While Montt was in power, more than 1700 native Mayans, descendants of the ancient civilization, were killed by the Guatemalan military.

The country's current president who was a military commander under Montt, denies this genocide ever happened.

Legal experts expect Montt to appeal his conviction.

Is this legit?

The IRS sets tax rates in the U.S.

No, not true. Congress gets taxes, it's the IRS's job to collect those taxes.

Some groups don't have to pay taxes.

For example, organizations that aren't in business to make a profit.

In order to get tax exempt status, which is what it's called, those groups have to fill out an application and submit to other checks from the IRS.

And right now, the agency is being criticized over how it handled applications from Tea Party and other conservative groups.

The Tea Party is actually more of a political movement that in recent elections has been organized in opposition to President Obama.

It's made up of a bunch of group from around the country, members generally want fewer taxes and less government spending.

In fact, Tea stands for Tax Enough Already.

A review of IRS practices shows that some Tea Party groups that applied for tax exempt status might have been the target of discrimination from some IRS agents.

The review says this might have started in 2010 and then officials at the IRS knew about it in 2011.

What happened is that some IRS agents searched for key words like Tea Party.

If that showed up in the name of the group, the application was flagged for additional review.