By Gram Slattery and Sergio Queiroz RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Over 100 people are missing or confirmed dead in Brazil, the government said on Sunday, as mudslides and major floods brought about by heavy rains tore through several urban neighborhoods in the northeastern part of the country. It was the fourth major flooding event …
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By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) – Gustavo Petro, who topped voting tallies with 40.8% in Colombia’s first round of presidential elections on Sunday, has said his political awakening came when he watched his father weep over the death of Argentinian revolutionary Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara. The 62-year-old senator and former mayor, who was part of …
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By Oliver Griffin BOGOTA (Reuters) – Business magnate and self-styled “king of TikTok” Rodolfo Hernandez, who shocked Colombia by getting into a June 19 presidential run-off against leftist Gustavo Petro, is betting his plain anti-corruption message will take him to the top job. Hernandez, a septuagenarian former mayor of the northern city Bucaramanga, won 28.2% …
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By Jarrett Renshaw, Gabriella Borter and Brad Brooks UVALDE, Texas (Reuters) -President Joe Biden tried to comfort families in the south Texas town of Uvalde on Sunday after the nation’s deadliest school shooting in a decade as federal officials announced they would review local law enforcement’s slow response to the attack. Anger has mounted over …
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By Crispian Balmer and Rami Amichay JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of flag-waving Israeli nationalists, some chanting “Death to Arabs”, marched through the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday, defying threats of retaliation from Palestinian militants. The annual parade celebrates Israel’s capture of Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war, but has …
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) -The trial of four Sudanese protesters accused of killing a police officer began in Khartoum on Sunday amid anti-military demonstrations and a heavy police presence. The four, accused of the fatal stabbing of a police brigadier-general in January, were seen by a Reuters witness entering the courtroom in Khartoum, raising their fists and …
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(Reuters) -Ukraine has started receiving Harpoon anti-ship missiles from Denmark and self-propelled howitzers from the United States, arms that will bolster forces fighting Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said on Saturday. “The coastal defence of our country will not only be strengthened by Harpoon missiles – they will be used by trained Ukrainian …
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By Brad Brooks and Gabriella Borter UVALDE, Texas (Reuters) -Investigators in Texas on Saturday sought to determine how critical mistakes were made in the response to the deadly Uvalde school shooting, including why nearly 20 officers remained outside a classroom as children placed panicked 911 calls for help. Why the officers waited in the hallway …
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(Reuters) – Some 50 homes in the village of Demydiv remain partially submerged months after a dam was destroyed and the area flooded to stop Russian troops from advancing on Ukraine capital Kyiv, regional governor Oleksiy Kuleba said late on Saturday. The Ukrainian military blew up a dam on the river Irpin in February, sending …
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By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Cardinal Angelo Sodano, a controversial Vatican power broker for more than a quarter of a century who was accused of covering up one of the Catholic Church’s most notorious sex abusers, has died at the age of 94. Sodano, who had been ill for some time and died on …
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