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Exclusive-Colombia’s ELN rebels willing to resume talks, leader says

BOGOTA, Dec 10 (Reuters) – Colombian guerrilla group the National Liberation Army (ELN) is willing to resume peace negotiations with the current government or with whatever new government is elected next year if commitments previously agreed upon at stymied peace talks are honored, the group’s top commander told Reuters. President Gustavo Petro suspended peace talks …

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Turkey in talks to rejoin US F-35 fighter jet programme, envoy says

ANKARA, Dec 10 (Reuters) – The U.S. is in discussions with Turkey regarding Ankara’s rejoining the F-35 fighter jet programme and Washington hopes that talks will yield a breakthrough in the coming months, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey said on Wednesday. Washington removed Ankara from Lockheed Martin’s <LMT.N> advanced F-35 programme and imposed the sanctions …

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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Machado will not attend award ceremony, NRK reports

OSLO, Dec 10 (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado will not attend the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in Oslo on Wednesday, broadcaster NRK reported, citing the Norwegian Nobel Institute. Machado, 58, has been subject to a decade-long travel ban imposed by Venezuelan authorities and has been in hiding for more than a …

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Top Trump aides brief Congress, as Trump open to broader Latin America campaign

By Patricia Zengerle, Bipasha Dey and Gnaneshwar Rajan WASHINGTON, Dec 9 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s top national security advisers briefed members of Congress about the administration’s campaign against suspected Venezuelan drug traffickers on Tuesday, as the president suggested he could extend U.S. military operations to Mexico and Colombia. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary …

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Honduran election turmoil grows as president decries ‘electoral coup’

By Laura Garcia and Fredy Rodriguez TEGUCIGALPA, Dec 9 (Reuters) – Honduran President Xiomara Castro on Tuesday denounced what she called an “electoral coup” unfolding amid a chaotic vote count from the November 30 presidential election, as hundreds of protesters gathered in the streets of the capital Tegucigalpa to demand clarity over the vote count.   …

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Jair Bolsonaro’s lawyers request his removal from jail to hospital for ‘surgical procedures’

RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 9 (Reuters) – Defense lawyers for Brazilian former President Jair Bolsonaro requested on Tuesday his removal from jail to a hospital for “surgical procedures”, according to a document seen by Reuters. The lawyers also reaffirmed their request for the right-wing leader to serve his 27-year prison sentence under “humanitarian house arrest.” …

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Tech startup CEO defrauded private equity firm out of $20 million, US charges

By Nate Raymond BOSTON, Dec 9 (Reuters) – The chief executive of a Nashville-based tech startup that purported to develop a revenue-sharing app that would be used by the entertainment industry has been charged with defrauding a private equity firm out of $20 million. Marcus Cobb, who had been the chief executive of Mozaic Payments …

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Canadian universities aim to attract top global scholars with funding boost

By Wa Lone TORONTO, Dec 9 (Reuters) – Canada is trying to lure top global researchers with the help of new federal funding and immigration reforms just as U.S. campuses battle funding cuts from the Trump administration. So far, only a handful of prominent professors have made the move north from the United States since …

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