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LIMA (Reuters) -Peru’s constitutional court has suspended investigations into President Dina Boluarte until her term ends next July, a decision released on Tuesday showed. Boluarte was being investigated for her role in the deaths of dozens of protesters after she came to power in late 2022 and for alleged illicit enrichment during her administration, which …

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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican boxer Julio Cesar Chavez Jr has entered a prison in the northern Mexico state of Sonora after his arrest in the United States in July, Mexico’s national arrest registry showed on Tuesday. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum in her daily press conference said the 39-year-old been deported. She previously said there was …

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By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) -The leader of Canada’s official opposition Conservatives, Pierre Poilievre, secured a return to Parliament and a chance to grill Prime Minister Mark Carney, staging a comeback after unexpectedly losing his seat in an April election. Poilievre won 80.4% of the vote in a special election on Monday in the parliamentary …

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By Emily Rose JERUSALEM (Reuters) -As Israel seeks to expand its offensive in Gaza, a measure of how the country’s mood has changed in the nearly two-year-old conflict is the discontent evident among some reservists being called up to serve once again. Shortly after the October 7, 2023 attack on southern Israel by Palestinian militant …

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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum on Tuesday said her government did not have an agreement with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration over an operation known as “Project Portero” after the DEA announced this project. The DEA on Monday said in a statement it was launching a “bold bilateral initiative” with Mexico aimed at …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration on Tuesday said it was targeting more imports of Chinese goods, including steel, copper and lithium, for high-priority enforcement over alleged human-rights abuses involving the Uyghurs. The Department of Homeland Security, in a post on X, said it was also designating caustic soda and red dates for high-priority enforcement under …

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(Reuters) -Canada has approved Novo Nordisk’s diabetes drug, Ozempic, to cut chronic kidney disease progression and reduce the risk of kidney failure and heart-related deaths in type-2 diabetes patients, the company said Tuesday. Ozempic, chemically known as semaglutide, is now the first approved treatment in Canada for type 2 diabetes and to slow related kidney …

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By Trevor Hunnicutt and Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump gathered European leaders and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for a hastily arranged White House meeting on Monday to discuss a path to ending Russia’s war in Ukraine. Here are takeaways from the talks: WARM TONE, LITTLE SUBSTANCE Seven European leaders, the Ukrainian president, …

Well-mannered White House welcome for Ukraine leaves many questions Read More »