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The US has warned of sanctions risks for Pakistan after the government in Islamabad signed security and economic deals with Iran during a visit by President Ebrahim Raisi to the South Asian country.
Hedge 'em any. >> he became a bitter adversary with the united states. he survived numerous assassination attempts. he outlived many of his opponents. even living to see relations thaw with the united states. cnn's rafael romo has more now on his final years. >> fidel castro knew his days were dwindling, telling cuban communists before his 90th birthday this year, soon i will be like everyone else. after a near fatal illness, he turned the reins of parr over to his younger brother raul. as cuba's new president began taking tentative steps toward reform, the u.s. began to ease restrictions. but...
We can work with. it's entirely possible and i've talked to a lot of people who know iran about this question. in response to this deal iran will not become our friend and cooperate with us. indeed, that hard liners in the iranian government will sort of want their turn. the iranian revolutionary guard corps will become more aggressive, that the sanctions will allow iran to send more money and eventually if this arms embargo is lifted more arms to proxy allies in lebanon, iraq yemen. interestingly, you might see iran sending more support to bashir al assad who president obama said has to go. t...
Russian-backed separatists in ukraine. that has claimed more than a hundred ukrainian soldiers killed in that conflict in the first six months of this year alone. so as trump and putin were speaking together in germany, there were still dozens of cease-fire violations reported by international osce monitors in that conflict zone in eastern ukraine. ukrainian concern, of course, is that if relations thaw and warm between moscow and washington, ukraine could get left out in the cold and that is presumably one of the reasons why secretary of state tillerson is in kiev today. it's to try to reassu...