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The United States used Swiss intermediaries to urge Iran not to retaliate so strongly that it would provoke President Donald Trump, The New York Times reported Saturday.The Swiss embassy in Tehran has long been used by the US government as a backchannel to communicate with the Iranians, according to The Wall Street Journal.After receiving the…
BOSTON — Helen Obando, a shy slip of a girl, lay curled in a hospital bed in June waiting for a bag of stem cells from her bone marrow, modified by gene therapy, to start dripping into her chest. The hope was that the treatment would cure her of sickle cell disease, an inherited blood…
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Search and rescue works are conducted at site after a Boeing 737 plane belonging to a Ukrainian airline crashed near Imam Khomeini Airport in Iran just after takeoff with 180 passengers on board in Tehran, Iran on January 08, 2020. Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Iran admitted it shot down Ukrainian Airlines flight 752,…
Middle East|Pompeo Imposes Sanctions on Iran, Sticking to Assertion That U.S. Faced Imminent ThreatAs the administration imposed new sanctions on Tehran, the secretary of state provided no specific evidence that the killing of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani was justified by an immediate threat.Videotranscripttranscript‘American Lives Were at Risk,’ Pompeo Says in Latest Defense of Suleimani KillingDuring…
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Robert Galbraith/Reuters Mark Zuckerberg made his first public New Year's resolution in 2009, when the economy tanked and Facebook wasn't profitable.Since then, he's tried all sorts of annual challenges, like learning a new language and meeting new people.His resolutions this year are goals for the entire decade, not just a single year.Visit Business Insider's homepage…
Sections of pipeline awaiting installation near Elliston, Va., in September.Credit...Charles Mostoller/ReutersJan. 9, 2020Updated 12:25 p.m. ETWASHINGTON — The White House on Thursday introduced major changes to the nation’s benchmark environmental protection law, moving to ease approval of major energy and infrastructure projects without detailed environmental review or consideration of climate change.Many of the changes to…
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