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Trump signs Russia sanctions bill, but calls it 'flawed'
By Roberta Rampton and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump signed into law new sanctions against Russia on Wednesday but he criticized the legislation as infringing on his powers to shape foreign policy, saying he could make "far better deals" with governments than Congress can. After signing a bill that Congress had approved overwhelmingly last week and which conflicts with his desire to improve relations with Moscow, the Republican president laid out a litany of concerns. "While I favor tough measures to punish and deter aggressive and destabilizing behavior by Iran, North Korea, and Russia, this legislation is significantly flawed," Trump said in a message to lawmakers.
2 missing after explosion, collapse at Minneapolis school
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Two people were unaccounted for after a natural gas explosion caused part of a building to collapse on Wednesday at a college prep school in Minneapolis, authorities said.
Vote manipulation charge hangs over Venezuela's new assembly
President Nicolas Maduro was to inaugurate the Constituent Assembly -- whose loyalist 545 members include his wife and son -- in a ceremony in a Caracas concert arena, his press office said. The body, which was elected despite months of street demonstrations and international condemnation, is tasked with rewriting the constitution of the crisis-hit South American country. It has wide powers superseding those of the opposition-controlled legislature, the National Assembly, whose palace it was to take over from Thursday, when it starts work.
Minneapolis school building collapses after explosion
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Authorities say two people are unaccounted for after an explosion and partial building collapse at a grade school in Minneapolis. The Minneapolis Fire Department initially tweeted that one fatality was reported in the collapse at Minnehaha Academy. Tyner says three people were rescued from the roof, and another person initially believed missing was found unhurt.
7,000 Syrian refugees and fighters return home from Lebanon
BEIRUT (AP) — More than a hundred buses carrying thousands of al-Qaida-linked fighters and Syrian refugees drove down a dirt road from Lebanon into Syria on Wednesday, in what was the last phase of an exchange deal between Syria's al-Qaida branch and Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group.
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