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A growing challenge for Iraq: Iran-aligned Shiite militias

by Associated Press
QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and ZEINA KARAM
Wed, March 31, 2021

BAGHDAD (AP) — It was a stark message: A convoy of masked Shiite militiamen, armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, drove openly through central Baghdad denouncing the U.S. presence in Iraq and threatening to cut off the prime minister’s ear.
The ominous display underscored the growing […]

Biden Plans Renewed Nuclear Talks With Russia While Punishing Kremlin, Adviser Says

The New York Times

By David E. Sanger

Jan. 3, 2021

President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s incoming national security adviser said on Sunday that the new administration would move quickly to renew the last remaining major nuclear arms treaty with Russia, even while seeking to make President Vladimir V. Putin pay for what appeared to be the largest-ever hacking […]