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Weekly Roundup: U.N. Chief Condemns Iran Missile Tests, House Approves FinCEN Budget Boost, and More
printA recent series of Iranian ballistic missile tests aren't "consistent" with the spirit of the country's nuclear agreement with the United States, Russia and other nations, but only the U.N. Security Council can determine whether the launches violated the intergovernmental group's arms embargo, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in a confidential report seen by Reuters. More North Korean officials said the U.S. government's decision to blacklist Kim Jong Un for human rights abuses represents a "declaration of war," though Western analysts characterized the restrictions as being mostly symbolic, Bloomberg reported. More The U.K.'s National Crime Agency said that law...
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