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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan vowed on Sunday to bring peace and safety to Iraq and areas in Syria not under Turkish control and said terrorist organizations in those areas would be eliminated. Turkey, which has backed some rebel groups in Syria, has been working with Russia, which supports Syrian President Bashar

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published Jan 29th 2017, 4:25 pm, by Robert Hutton and Andrew Atkinson (Bloomberg) —The Trump administration moved to reassure the U.K. over the impact of its immigration ban, saying only people traveling from seven Muslim-majority countries will be hit by it. Prime Minister Theresa May ordered her top diplomat, Boris

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©2016 Bloomberg News O2LNUK6TTDS3 (Bloomberg) — Bryon Linnehan spent more than two years chasing bad guys around Iraq as a U.S. military-intelligence officer. Since May, he’s been using skills he honed on the battlefield to monitor electronic communications inside Barclays Plc. Desperate to avoid more costly run-ins with regulators, investment banks

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©2015 Bloomberg View NUOMV56S972I (Bloomberg View) — On the campaign trail this year, Carly Fiorina has been a staunch advocate of keeping crippling sanctions on Iran, but under her leadership, Hewlett-Packard sold hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of products to Iran through a foreign subsidiary, despite strict U.S. export

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Copyright 2015 Bloomberg. Terry Atlas (Bloomberg) — Secretary of State John Kerry, seeking to counter a wave of anxiety among Persian Gulf allies, said a potential nuclear deal with Iran isn’t part of a “grand bargain” to improve U.S. relations with the Islamic Republic. Kerry met Thursday in Riyadh with Saudi

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