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US pushes to put Pakistan on terrorism financing watchlist

Bloomberg The US is pushing to get Pakistan placed on an international terror-financing watchlist a month after President Donald Trump suspended about $2 billion in military aid to the nuclear-armed nation. The US, along with the UK, have reported to the Financial Action Task Force that Pakistan hasn’t complied with terrorism regulations, Rana Muhammad Afzal Khan, a junior Pakistani minister ...

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Johnson says disastrous to try to reverse Brexit

Bloomberg Boris Johnson kicks off Prime Minister Theresa May’s “Road Map to Brexit” with an appeal to supporters of European Union membership to embrace the UK’s future outside the bloc—though extracts released late last night suggest his speech won’t be as conciliatory as billed. The foreign secretary, a divisive figure who toured the country in a red bus during the ...

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NKorea should be kept ‘under siege’: Japan

Bloomberg South Korea must stay in line with US and Japanese plans to keep North Korea “under siege,” the chairman of Japan’s lower house committee on foreign affairs said, referring to the policy of maintaining maximum pressure on Kim Jong Un’s regime. Just days after Kim’s smiling sister invited South Korean President Moon Jae-in to a summit with her brother ...

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