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MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — An overwhelming vote by the United States House of Representatives to slap tough new sanctions on Moscow is a “serious step” towards wrecking chances of improving ties, Russia’s deputy foreign minister said Wednesday. “The authors and sponsors of this bill are taking a very serious step towards destroying the possibilities for normalizing relations with Russia,” Sergei Ryabkov told state-run TASS news agency. © Agence France-Presse
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) — U.S. and South Korean senior officials held a meeting in Seoul on Tuesday (February 23) amid high tension on the Korean peninsula after North Korea’s rocket launch earlier this month. The U.S. Treasury Department’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes (TFFC), Jennifer Fowler, and South Korean Foreign Ministry’s Director General for North Korean Nuclear Affairs, Kim Gunn, attended the meeting in the South Korean capital. Fowler and […]
