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By Monica Machicao LA PAZ (Reuters) -The Bolivian government had intelligence that a coup attempt could occur before the country’s top military commander and his troops forced their way into the presidential palace this week, a senior government minister said on Thursday. The failed coup on Wednesday happened over just a few hours and provoked …

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By Dominique Vidalon and Bertrand Boucey PARIS (Reuters) – French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is confident her party will win an absolute majority in parliament, form a government and impose limits on what President Emmanuel Macron can do to support Ukraine, she said days before voting starts. Macron will remain president after a snap …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Lawyers representing claimants taking legal action over Brazil’s worst environmental disaster filed an injunction this week against miners BHP and Vale for “trying to derail” a potential 36 billion-pound ($46 billion) London lawsuit. More than 720,000 Brazilians, including 46 local governments, are suing BHP and Vale over the 2015 collapse of the …

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By Mari Saito DOLYNA, Ukraine (Reuters) – In Dolyna, there used to be 500 residents. Today, there are only a handful. The picturesque village, near the border of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Kharkiv regions, was one of many in the area that became fierce battlegrounds in the spring and summer of 2022 after Russia invaded Ukraine. …

In his home near Ukraine’s front line with Russia, Yurii makes a stand Read More »

MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Thursday that Russia is considering a possible downgrading of diplomatic relations with the West due to the deeper involvement of the United States and its allies in the Ukraine war, though no decision has yet been made. “The issue of lowering the level of diplomatic relations is a …

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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) – Another child died of malnutrition in northern Gaza overnight and six people were killed and several wounded in renewed Israeli bombing of residential areas of Gaza City, Palestinian health officials said on Thursday. In the southern city of Rafah, a one-time place of refuge where Israel says it is …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Thursday it hoped calm would be restored in Bolivia in the wake of an attempted coup, after the Russian Foreign Ministry condemned the plotters and expressed Moscow’s support for the government of President Luis Arce. Bolivian armed forces pulled back from the presidential palace in La Paz on …

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PARIS (Reuters) – Racism and intolerance are rising in France, fuelled by the war in Gaza and far-right ideas in public debate, France’s human rights commission, the CNCDH, said in an annual report published on Thursday. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT The far-right National Rally (RN) is leading in the polls for upcoming legislative elections, running on …

France saw a rise in all types of racism in 2023, report says Read More »