By Trevor Hunnicutt Washiongton (Reuters) – The U.S. will impose 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, along with 10% on China, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said on Friday, but she declined to say whether there will be exemptions. (Reporting By Jarrett Renshaw, Editing by Franklin Paul)
By Marianna Parraga and Elida Moreno (Reuters) -Some U.S. lawmakers and officials are touting a nearly half-century-old treaty between the United States and Panama to justify the Trump administration’s threat to reclaim the Panama Canal – provided it can show the strategic waterway’s operation is under threat. Others, however, say hurdles would loom for any …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two executives of a Chinese chemical company have been found not guilty by a Manhattan jury on charges they conspired to ship precursor chemicals to the United States to manufacture fentanyl, but were convicted on related charges. In a verdict returned on Wednesday and made available electronically on …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s exiled women cricketers will be the first beneficiaries of a new refugee fund started by the Marylebone Cricket Club, the MCC said on Friday. Hundreds of athletes fled Afghanistan after the Taliban reclaimed power in 2021 and effected sweeping restrictions on women in the country. Of the 25 Afghan women contracted …
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(Reuters) – Myanmar’s ruling military has extended a state of emergency for another six months, state media reported on Friday, a day ahead of the four-year anniversary of a coup that plunged the country into chaos after a decade of tentative democracy. Myanmar has been locked in a civil war triggered by the military’s overthrow …
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By Tim Hepher (Reuters) – Investigators have recovered the so-called black boxes from an American Airlines Bombardier CRJ-700 regional jet, which collided with a U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River on Wednesday, killing 67 people. Lead investigator Brice Banning said on Thursday that the helicopter also contained “some form …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – A magnitude 6.2 quake hit off the coast of Indonesia’s Aceh province on Friday, the country’s geophysics agency said on social media platform X. The quake was 29 kilometres deep and has no tsunami potential, the agency said. (Reporting by Stanley Widianto; Editing by Toby Chopra)
TAIPEI (Reuters) – Global bodies should stop excluding Taiwan for political reasons, President Lai Ching-te told Pope Francis in a letter, adding that he agrees war has no winners. The Vatican is one of only 12 countries to retain formal diplomatic ties with Chinese-claimed Taiwan, and Taipei has watched with concern efforts by Beijing and …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia’s additional budget of 100 trillion rupiah ($6.14 billion) for its programme to give free meals to school children this year will add nearly 2 percentage points to the country’s growth, an aide to President Prabowo Subianto said on Friday. Prabowo’s signature free meal programme began earlier this month and had initially targeted …
SEOUL (Reuters) – Passengers evacuated from an Air Busan plane that was engulfed in flames this week at a South Korean airport will have their checked baggage returned to them, after authorities on Friday deemed the jet safe for a full investigation. All 169 passengers and seven crew members were evacuated from the Airbus A321ceo …
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