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USA (AP) --- When Mike Bloomberg held a rally this month at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, the signs of his wealth and influence were everywhere.

Former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, long a paid adviser to one of Bloomberg’s charitable programs and now to his campaign, warmed up the crowd with chants of “Mike will get it done!” That followed a performance of the Nick Jonas song “Jealous” by an a capella group from the University of Pennsylvania, where Bloomberg has funded public health research.

NEW YORK, Feb 24 (APP): A prominent Kashmiri leader has welcomed a recent statement of United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in which he underscored the importance of the peoples’ right to self-determination in promoting peace and stability in the world, and urged him to appoint a special representative to move the process for the resolution of the decades-old Kashmir dispute.

WASHINGTON, February 23. /TASS/: Russia and Ukraine should come together, US President Donald Trump told reporters outside the White House on Sunday.

When asked to comment on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s words that cooperation between Russia and Ukraine irks some countries as it produces a global competitor for them.

25 Feb 2020; MEMO: An Orthodox Jewish man hailed as a hero for stopping a machete-wielding man from causing further harm, having stabbed five people during a Hanukkah celebration at a rabbi’s home in Monsey, New York, has refused to accept a $20,000 reward from established Jewish organisations because he considers them Zionists.

Washington, Feb 24 (AFP/PTI) Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders has said that if elected president he would "absolutely" use the military if warranted, both to protect US interests and to support its allies.

He also said he would be willing to meet with the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong Un, as President Donald Trump has done.

New Delhi, Feb 24 (PTI) The shared values between India and the US are "discrimination, bigotry, and hostility towards refugees and asylum seekers", Amnesty International USA said in a joint statement with Amnesty International India ahead of US President Donald Trump's visit to India on Monday.

Trump, accompanied by his wife Melania, daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner as well as senior officials of his administration, landed in Ahmedabad on the first leg of his two-day visit to India.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jim Clyburn, the No. 3 Democrat in the House of Representatives and an influential black lawmaker from the early voting state of South Carolina, is expected on Wednesday to endorse Joe Biden’s presidential bid, according to a Politico report on Sunday.

Reuters could not independently verify that the endorsement was forthcoming. A representative for Clyburn called any reports that he had decided whom to endorse “speculative.”

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Donald Trump's National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien said on Sunday that the United States would be unlikely to sign an agreement with the Afghan Taliban should the latter fail to comply with a reduction of violence deal.

"If the Taliban does not live up to their agreement on the reduction of violence plan, then we'll take a very careful look at it, and I think it'd be unlikely that we'd sign a peace treaty," O'Brien said during an interview with CBS News.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Sunday he’s ready to sign a peace deal with the Taliban in Afghanistan if a temporary truce holds in America’s longest war. “Time to come home,” he said.

“They want to stop. You know, they’ve been fighting a long time. They’re tough people. We’re tough people,” Trump told reporters as he left the White House for a trip to India. “But after 19 years, that’s a long time.″

WASHINGTON (AP) — Doreen Oport was pulled from the rubble of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1998 covered in blood. Her hair was burned from the bombing. Pieces of metal and glass were embedded in her skin.

The two decades since the bombing have been a difficult and “painful journey,” she said in a telephone interview this past week from her current home in Texas.