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DUBAI (Reuters) -Iranian parliamentarians are preparing a bill that could push Tehran toward exiting the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the foreign ministry said on Monday, while reiterating Tehran’s official stance against developing nuclear weapons. “In light of recent developments, we will take an appropriate decision. Government has to enforce parliament bills but such a proposal is …

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By Layli Foroudi and Juliette Jabkhiro PUGET-SUR-ARGENS, France (Reuters) -Hichem Miraoui, a 45-year-old Tunisian barber, was at home in the south of France late in May, chatting on the phone with his mother and sisters, when a neighbour drove past and shot him dead on his doorstep. After killing Miraoui and shooting Kurdish neighbour Akif …

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HANOI (Reuters) -U.S. aircraft carrier USS Nimitz left the South China Sea on Monday morning heading west, according to data from ship tracking website Marine Traffic, after a reception for its planned port call in central Vietnam was cancelled. The carrier had planned to visit Danang City later this week, but two sources, including one …

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By Laurie Chen and Fanny Potkin BEIJING/SINGAPORE (Reuters) -The renewed U.S.-China trade truce struck in London left a key area of export restrictions tied to national security untouched, an unresolved conflict that threatens a more comprehensive deal, two people briefed on detailed outcomes of the talks told Reuters. Beijing has not committed to grant export …

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By Johan Ahlander STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -The world’s nuclear-armed states are beefing up their atomic arsenals and walking out of arms control pacts, creating a new era of threat that has brought an end to decades of reductions in stockpiles since the Cold War, a think tank said on Monday. Of the total global inventory of …

World entering new era as nuclear powers build up arsenals, SIPRI think tank says Read More »

By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump vetoed an Israeli plan in recent days to kill Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Sunday. “Have the Iranians killed an American yet? No. Until they do we’re not even talking about going after the political leadership,” said one of the …

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