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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Drug trafficking organizations must be treated the way foreign terrorist organizations were treated after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, FBI Director Kash Patel said on Tuesday, pledging that the campaign against them will be a years-long mission. “We must treat them like the al Qaedas of the world,” Patel said at a Senate …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. has issued a fresh round Iran-related sanctions targeting individuals and entities that Washington says finance Tehran’s military, including some in Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates, the U.S. Treasury Department said on Tuesday. Those targeted have helped coordinate funds transfers, including from the sale of Iranian oil, that benefit Iran’s …

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By Luciana Magalhaes and Manuela Andreoni BRASILIA (Reuters) -On paper, former President Jair Bolsonaro has been sentenced to prison until the age of 97. In fact, legal experts say the ex-president is unlikely to spend more than a fraction of his 27-year sentence behind bars after the Brazilian Supreme Court found him guilty of plotting …

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By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) -Weeping relatives held funerals on Tuesday for loved ones at a sacred Hindu site in Nepal’s capital of Kathmandu, after their deaths in anti-graft protests last week that brought a change of government in the Himalayan nation. At least 72 people died in the unrest and the vandalism and arson …

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