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WASHINGTON( Reuters)-The Pentagon said on Wednesday it assessed that Ukraine could win the war against Russia, even as U.S. officials speak of the risk of a protracted conflict....

( Reuters)-A U.S. appeals court on Friday rejected Halkbank's bid to dismiss an indictment accusing the state-owned Turkish lender of helping Iran evade American sanctions. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said even if the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act shielded the bank, the charge against Halkbank falls under the commercial activity exception. Prosecutors accused Halkbank of converting oil revenue into gold and then cash to benefit Iranian interests and documenting fake food shipments t

Any U.S. civil aircraft operator that wants to fly into/ out of or over Afghanistan must receive prior authorization from the FAA." On Aug.... 18, the FAA said U.S. air carriers and civilian pilots could fly into Kabul to conduct evacuation or relief flights with prior U.S. Defense Department approval.... U.S. airlines helped transport thousands of evacuees this month but conducted flights from airports outside Afghanistan.( Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Leslie Adler and Howard Gol

( Reuters)-Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley seemed on the verge of a sweeping victory as preliminary results trickled in late on Wednesday from the Caribbean nation's first general election since it became a republic last year. Mottley's Barbados Labor Party( BLP) went into the vote holding 29 of the 30 seats in the national legislature, and the prime minister was comfortably re-elected in one of the first constituencies to be declared. Results came in piecemeal overnight and projections on l

Canada has taken a strong line against Russia's military build-up on the Ukrainian border strong line against Russia's military build-up on the Ukrainian border. Ottawa rarely speaks about hacks into its systems.... In 2011, officials said" a highly sophisticated Chinese state-sponsored actor" had broken into a leading research body.... Beijing denied it.In 2014, a former Canadian cabinet minister said Chinese operators were suspected of hacking into the Treasury Board and the finance ministry

( Reuters)-Canada has deployed a small contingent of special forces operators to Ukraine, Canada's Global News reported on Monday, after security talks last week ended without a breakthrough in resolving tensions between Moscow and Kyiv. Russia has stationed more than 100, 000 troops near the border with Ukraine, and the United States said on Friday it was concerned that Russia was preparing a pretext to invade if diplomacy failed to meet its objectives. The Canadian special operations presence

TEGUCIGALPA( Reuters)-A Drug Enforcement Administration( DEA) plane took off from the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa on Tuesday morning carrying the country's former police, Juan Carlos" El Tigre" Bonilla, who is being extradited to the United States on drug-trafficking charges. Bonilla, who was police chief in the Central American nation between 2012 and 2013 under former right-wing former President Porfirio Lobo, was arrested in March as he was driving through a toll booth.He has denied the accu