By Gram Slattery and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) – Trump administration officials have held advanced discussions on hitting U.N. Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA with terrorism-related sanctions, said two sources with direct knowledge of the matter, prompting serious legal and humanitarian concerns inside the State Department. The United Nations agency operates in Gaza, the …
Dec 10 (Reuters) – Venezuelan Cardinal Baltazar Porras said on Wednesday his passport was confiscated and he was barred from traveling abroad, a move that comes amid heightened political tensions in the South American country. Porras, one of the Catholic Church’s top figures in Venezuela, wrote on X that immigration officials at Simon Bolivar International …
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WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) – The United States will impose a phased-in tariff on some Nicaraguan goods starting Jan. 1 over labor and human rights concerns, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said on Wednesday, adding that the tariff will increase to 10% the following year and 15% in 2028. The tariff rate would …
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By Maria Carolina Marcello and Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA, Dec 10 (Reuters) – Brazilian lawmakers voted on Wednesday to shorten the prison sentence of former right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, although the bill is likely to face resistance from senators, the Supreme Court and leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. In a tense session that descended …
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By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING, Dec 10 (Reuters) – China and Brazil have begun building a joint laboratory for space technologies, Chinese state-owned defence electronics firm CETC said, deepening scientific ties as the two countries push ahead with a major telescope project in South America. The growing cooperation contrasts with recent U.S. pressure on Latin American …
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JERUSALEM, Dec 10 (Reuters) – Israel has given final approval for 764 housing units to be built in three settlements in the occupied West Bank, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Wednesday, a move condemned by the Palestinian Authority as undermining regional peace efforts. The ultra-nationalist Smotrich, who opposes the creation of a Palestinian state, …
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MEXICO CITY, Dec 10 (Reuters) – Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Wednesday that about 152,600 migrants have been sent to Mexico since U.S. President Donald Trump took office in January, including non-Mexicans. (Reporting by Raul Cortes and Natalia Siniawski; Editing by Kylie Madry)
By Olivia Le Poidevin and Suleiman Al-Khalidi GENEVA, Dec 10 (Reuters) – Israeli Druze leader Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif urged the United States to guarantee the security of the Druze community in Syria to prevent a recurrence of intense violence earlier this year in Sweida, a Druze-majority province in Sunni-dominated Syria. Washington needed to fulfill its …
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By Alexander Villegas and Lucinda Elliott SANTIAGO, Dec 10 (Reuters) – With a commanding lead in opinion polls and an electorate clamoring for security, far-right candidate Jose Antonio Kast is widely expected to win Chile’s presidential run-off on Sunday and become the country’s most conservative leader since its military dictatorship. Kast is running against Jeannette …
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BRASILIA, Dec 10 (Reuters) – Brazil’s lower house approved a bill tightening rules for habitual tax debtors, aiming to curb practices often used by companies involved in money-laundering schemes. Tuesday’s bill, which Finance Minister Fernando Haddad called essential to fighting organized crime, heads to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to be signed into law, …
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