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[ad_1] WASHINGTON: Halley's Comet (with two l's) last passed by the Earth in 1986 and is expected to return in 2061 on its 75-year periodic swing by our planet. Expect no such extended disappearance from the political firmament of Nikki Haley , the first and (so far) only Indian-American US cabinet member, whose resignation from the Trump administration on Tuesday caught Washington DC, a city which leaks secrets as a habit, by surprise. Political pundits who have retrieved jaws that clattered to the floor by the shock announcement are predicting that she will run for the White House -- not in 2020, but in 2024. Haley herself pledged, with the US President by her side as she announced her resignation as the UN Ambassador, that she would campaign for a Trump second-term in 2020. But political analysts say "there's very little doubt that Haley has her eye on the White House at some point in the future," while suggesting she may be trying to put some time and distance...

[ad_1] Iran’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, has told the BBC that support from Europe to preserve the 2015 nuclear deal in the face of US pressure has been better than expected. Mr Zarif was speaking to the BBC’s Lyse Doucet in New York after a week in which the EU announced it would set up a special financial mechanism to allow companies to get around the sanctions reinstated by President Donald Trump, who abandoned the nuclear deal earlier this year. [ad_2]