By Joseph Ax (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday charged a man with stabbing a Ukrainian refugee to death last month on a North Carolina train, a case that in recent days has served as a rallying cry for President Donald Trump’s broadening crime crackdown. Decarlos Brown, 34, now faces a federal charge of …
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DUBAI/VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran and the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Tuesday they had reached a deal on resuming inspections at sites including those bombed by the U.S. and Israel but gave no specifics, and Tehran warned the West the deal was off if sanctions were re-imposed. The agreement, struck between International Atomic Energy Agency …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Israel’s decision to strike Qatar was made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and not by the Republican leader. “Unilaterally bombing inside Qatar, a Sovereign Nation and close Ally of the United States, that is working very hard and bravely taking risks with us to broker …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa has sent officials to the United States to prepare for trade negotiations after attempting for months to strike a deal with the Trump administration to roll back steep tariffs, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Tuesday. U.S. President Donald Trump imposed a 30% tariff on imports from Africa’s most developed economy last …
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QUITO (Reuters) -Hundreds of Ecuadorean police seized over $313 million in real estate assets in a mass raid of properties held by the Comandos de la Frontera, or ‘Border Command,’ armed group, the interior ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. The ministry said the group was “funneling large amounts of money into the national …
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(Reuters) – Israel launched an attack on the leadership of Hamas in Qatar on Tuesday, where the Palestinian Islamist group has long had its political base. Below are comments from leaders and states in response: ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU “Today’s action against the top terrorist chieftains of Hamas was a wholly independent Israeli operation. …
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Leo, who typically refrains from speaking off the cuff, expressed unusually forceful concern on Tuesday about the consequences of Israel’s strike in Qatar. “There’s some really serious news right now: Israel’s attack on some Hamas leaders in Qatar,” the pontiff told journalists outside his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo. “The …
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By Ricardo Brito, Luciana Magalhaes and Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA (Reuters) -The trial of Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro over an alleged coup plot to reverse his 2022 electoral loss is still days away from a final verdict, but a front-runner has emerged in the jockeying to take his place in next year’s campaign. Sao Paulo …
By Vladimir Soldatkin MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia on Tuesday sent a big delegation to Syria, headed by its top energy official, in its most visible effort yet to build relations with the government that toppled former President Bashar al-Assad, a key ally of Moscow, late last year. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said in televised …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India’s diplomatic team is engaging with the U.S. and trade negotiations between the two countries are ongoing, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told NDTV in an interview on Tuesday. (Reporting by Nikunj Ohri)
