By Leah Douglas, Dan Levine and Julie Steenhuysen WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Departing senior officials of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention left the agency due to changes to its vaccine advisory board and other vaccine policies, they told Reuters in an interview on Thursday. Debra Houry, Demetre Daskalakis and Dan Jernigan, who resigned on …
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By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -Hundreds of U.N. staff at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk have written to ask him to explicitly describe the Gaza war as an unfolding genocide, according to a letter seen by Reuters. The letter sent on Wednesday said the staff consider that the legal …
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By Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to Mexico and Ecuador next week, the State Department said on Thursday, as President Donald Trump’s administration seeks to crack down on illegal immigration to the U.S., combat drug cartels and counter Chinese influence in Latin America. Rubio, the first Latino U.S. …
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By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump could quickly lift some sanctions on Russia as a reward to Moscow if peace talks with Ukraine go well, but only Europe can take the bigger steps needed to significantly ease Russia’s cash crunch. Trump in recent days has renewed a threat to impose more sanctions …
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By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) -More food aid is reaching Gaza but it still remains far from enough to prevent widespread starvation, the head of the World Food Programme told Reuters on Thursday. “We’re getting a little bit more food in. We’re moving in the right direction … but it’s not nearly enough to …
SAO PAULO/RIO DE JANEIRO/BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazilian police and tax officials carried out a series of raids early on Thursday across the country targeting multibillion-dollar money laundering and fraud schemes linked to organized crime in the fuel sector, authorities said. Multinational energy firms have struggled for years to root out organized crime from their distribution networks …
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By Sarah Morland and Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -The United States and Panama launched a push on Thursday for the U.N. Security Council to establish a force to suppress powerful armed gangs in Haiti, which a top U.N. official said are now estimated to be 50% made up of children. The Security Council …
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By Gram Slattery, Jonathan Landay and Andreas Rinke WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Shortly after meeting Vladimir Putin in Moscow on August 6, U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff delivered major news to Donald Trump: The Russian president was prepared to offer significant territorial concessions to end his war in Ukraine. Following Witkoff’s readout to the U.S. president, described …
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SYDNEY (Reuters) -Iran ambassador Ahmad Sadeghi, arriving at Sydney Airport before an expulsion deadline, on Thursday rejected as “lies” Australia’s accusation that Tehran had directed antisemitic arson attacks in the cities of Sydney and Melbourne, . Australia gave Sadeghi 72 hours on Tuesday to leave the country, the nation’s first expulsion of an ambassador since …
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By Anna Voitenko KYIV (Reuters) -A wounded woman pinned down by concrete. A man whose leg was badly broken. A child trapped under debris. The scenes after Thursday’s Russian drone and missile attack on Kyiv were tragically familiar: residents picking through debris while awaiting rescuers, often amid the moans and cries of their neighbours. Among …
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