By Lisandra Paraguassu and Marx Vasconcelos BRASILIA/BELÉM (Reuters) – A strike by construction workers in Brazil’s Amazonian city of Belem, venue of a global climate summit in November, has partially disrupted work on the Leaders’ Village that is due to house dozens of world leaders in just six weeks’ time. “One section of the compound …
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(Reuters) – Venezuela arrests opposition figures’ family members in a “sustained and systematic pattern” to generate fear and social control, a United Nations fact-finding mission said in an upcoming report. The report, seen by Reuters on Friday, is set to be presented at a session of the U.N. Human Rights Council next week. It is …
(Reuters) – India’s Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal is expected to visit Washington soon for trade talks, India’s ET Now news channel reported on Friday citing news agency PTI, a trip that would take place amid efforts to ease strained bilateral ties. ET Now did not say when Goyal would leave for the U.S. India’s Ministry …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations General Assembly voted on Friday to allow Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to address the annual gathering of world leaders next week via video after the United States said it would not give him a visa to travel to New York. The resolution received 145 votes …
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BEIRUT (Reuters) – Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem on Friday urged Saudi Arabia to turn “a new page” with the Iran-backed group and set aside past disputes to create a unified front against Israel, following years of hostility that strained Riyadh’s ties with Lebanon. Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states designated Shi’ite Hezbollah a terrorist organisation …
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By Jennifer Rigby (Reuters) – The United Nations agency focusing on the HIV/AIDS pandemic could close by the end of next year as the U.N. restructures in the face of a funding crisis, according to a U.N. document published online. UNAIDS will “sunset” by the end of 2026, the document published on Thursday reads, part …
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By Olena Harmash and Mike Collett-White KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine is making progress in intensive talks to formalise legally binding security guarantees with the United States and European allies, a key part of its bid to end the war with Russia, First Deputy Foreign Minister Sergiy Kyslytsya said. A bilateral agreement with the United States …
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GAZA (Reuters) – Israel’s military said it had expanded operations in Gaza City on Friday and bombarded Hamas infrastructure, while displaced Palestinians traumatised by the advance said they had no means to flee. “The situation is really bad. All night long, the tank was firing shells,” said Palestinian Toufic Abu Mouawad, who left a camp …
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(Reuters) -A panel of U.S. vaccine advisers appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday voted to remove the U.S. CDC’s recommendations that allow for the use of a combined measles-mumps-rubella-varicella vaccine in children under 4 years of age. The panel voted 8 to 3 against use of the combined shot, and recommended …
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By Maha El Dahan and Muayad Hameed DUBAI/BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s attempt to ease its chronic power shortage with gas from Turkmenistan routed through neighbouring Iran has failed under U.S. pressure, leaving Baghdad scrambling for alternatives to keep the lights on. Oil-rich Iraq has struggled to provide its citizens with power since the 2003 U.S.-led …
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