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DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said U.S. demands that Tehran stop enriching uranium are “excessive and outrageous”, state media reported, voicing doubts whether talks on a new nuclear deal will succeed. “I don’t think nuclear talks with the U.S. will bring results. I don’t know what will happen,” Khamenei said, adding that …

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By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dismissed the World Health Organization as bloated and “moribund” in a video shown to global health officials meeting on Tuesday for the body’s annual assembly in Geneva. The U.N. agency’s top donor, the United States, announced it would withdraw from …

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DOHA (Reuters) – Qatar dismissed concerns about its offer to give U.S. President Donald Trump a Boeing plane, saying it was not trying to buy influence, a day after a bill was introduced in the Senate to prevent a foreign aircraft operating as Air Force One. Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani …

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CARACAS (Reuters) -Venezuela’s Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said on Monday he has ordered flights from Colombia suspended after the arrests of more than three dozen people, including some 17 foreigners who arrived via Colombia, over allegations of “conspiracy.” Venezuelan authorities regularly decry conspiracies and planned attacks against President Nicolas Maduro, the country’s power grid and …

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By Patricia Zengerle and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer on Monday introduced a bill that would prevent any foreign aircraft from being used as Air Force One, the aircraft that transports the U.S. president. Schumer introduced the “Presidential Airlift Security Act” after news last week that President Donald Trump planned …

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QUITO (Reuters) -A judge in Ecuador on Monday ruled former vice president Jorge Glas will face trial for alleged misuse of public funds allocated to rebuild areas affected by a devastating 2016 earthquake. Glas is currently in prison serving out convictions in two prior corruption cases. The attorney general’s office had asked that Glas and …

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