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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States issued fresh sanctions on Tuesday against 15 individuals and four entities in Iran, Syria and Uganda, according to the U.S. Treasury Department website. The sanctions target Iran’s counterterrorism special forces as well as Iran’s Gholamreza Soleimani of the Basij Resistance Force, among others, the website showed. (Reporting by Daphne …

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By Tom Balmforth and Trevor Hunnicutt MOSCOW/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin have a chasm of mutual distrust to bridge when they hold a virtual meeting on Tuesday in the shadow of what the United States believes is a threatened Russian invasion of Ukraine. “A lamentable state,” was how the Kremlin described …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed C. B. “Sully” Sullenberger to be the U.S. representative on the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), the United Nations air safety body. Sullenberger rose to fame in 2009 as a commercial pilot who safely landed an Airbus A320 on New York’s …

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