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Understanding India’s Strategic Outreach to the Taliban in Afghanistan
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US sends B-2 bombers over the Pacific as Trump weighs Iran options
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Exclusive-Israel seeks swift action on Iran, sources say, with a split U.S. administration
By Humeyra Pamuk, Samia Nakhoul, Alexander Cornwell and Emily Rose WASHINGTON/DUBAI/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli officials have told the Trump administration they do not want to wait two weeks for Iran to reach a deal to dismantle key parts of its nuclear program and Israel could act alone before the deadline is up,