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Chile to nominate former President Bachelet for UN Secretary General

23 Sep 2025 23 Sep 2025

SANTIAGO (Reuters) -Chilean President Gabriel Boric said he would nominate the country’s former president, Michelle Bachelet, as a candidate for UN Secretary General on Tuesday. “She’s a woman who’s own trajectory is fully in line with the values that inspired this organization,” Boric said during his speech at the UN General Assembly. (Reporting by Fabian …

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Drone attack kills at least 8 children at Haiti birthday party, media reports

23 Sep 2025 23 Sep 2025

(Adds editing credit) PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -A kamikaze drone strike has reportedly killed at least eight children and several adults in an attack on an alleged Haitian gang leader’s birthday party in the capital Port-au-Prince, where he was distributing gifts, local media reported on Tuesday. Local media Haiti Libre reported the attack targeted Albert Steevenson, known …

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First US Artemis astronaut mission around the moon on track for April

23 Sep 2025 23 Sep 2025

By Joey Roulette (Reuters) -NASA officials on Tuesday said the agency’s first crewed flight in its Artemis program – a trip around the moon and back – is on track for launch in April and could potentially be moved up to February. The space agency’s Artemis program is the flagship U.S. effort to return humans …

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Trump tells UN that climate change is ‘greatest con job’ globally

23 Sep 2025 23 Sep 2025

By Valerie Volcovici (Reuters) -President Donald Trump dismissed climate change as “the greatest con job” in the world during his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, doubling down on his skepticism of global environmental initiatives and multilateral institutions. Scientists say climate change is real, mostly caused by humans, and getting worse. They …

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Iran’s Supreme Leader says negotiations with US would not be in Tehran’s interests

23 Sep 2025 23 Sep 2025

DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday that negotiations with the United States would not serve Tehran’s interests and would prove a “dead-end”. In a recorded message, Khamenei also said Iran would not “surrender to pressure” regarding uranium enrichment and he reiterated Tehran’s long-standing official position that it does not need …

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Trump to meet Brazil’s Lula next week after ‘excellent chemistry’ at UN

23 Sep 2025 23 Sep 2025

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said he plans to meet next week with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, adding that they had “excellent chemistry” during a brief encounter at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday. Trump said that he and Lula spoke briefly and embraced after the Brazilian leader addressed the …

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Trump warns drug traffickers: ‘We will blow you out of existence’

23 Sep 2025 23 Sep 2025

NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said recent U.S. strikes on boats carrying alleged Venezuelan drug traffickers delivered a powerful warning to anyone seeking to bring drugs into the United States. “To every terrorist thug smuggling poisonous drugs into the United States of America, please be warned that we will blow you …

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Trump says Palestinian statehood would reward Hamas

23 Sep 2025 23 Sep 2025

NEW YORK, September 23 (Reuters) -Recognition of a Palestinian state would be too great a reward for Hamas, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, repeating his call for the release of hostages – dead or alive – still held by the militant group in Gaza. Trump called for an immediate end to the war …

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Trump administration proposes new H-1B visa process favoring higher-skilled, better-paid workers

23 Sep 2025 23 Sep 2025

By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration released a proposal on Tuesday that would rework the H-1B visa selection process to favor higher-skilled and better-paid workers, according to a related Federal Register notice, a move that follows a White House proclamation on Friday introducing a $100,000 fee for the visas. The new process, if …

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Lula tells UN that attacks on Brazil’s institutions are unacceptable

23 Sep 2025 23 Sep 2025

(Reuters) -Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday that recent “unilateral attacks” against his country’s institutions and economy were unacceptable, in a stern rebuke of U.S. foreign policy. Lula’s comments echoed his running criticism of U.S. President Donald Trump for imposing tariffs, visa restrictions and financial sanctions in …

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