LIMA (Reuters) -A Peruvian judge ordered the pre-trial detention for former president Martin Vizcarra on Wednesday for allegedly taking bribes while he was governor more than a decade ago. At the hearing, Judge Jorge Chavez ordered Vizcarra to be held for five months, making him the fifth former Peruvian president to be jailed in recent …
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By Emily Green and Diego Oré MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico sent more than two dozen suspected cartel members to the U.S. on Tuesday, amid rising pressure from President Donald Trump on Mexico to dismantle the country’s powerful drug organizations. Authorities shipped 26 prisoners wanted in the U.S. for ties to drug-trafficking groups, Mexico’s attorney general’s …
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By Ricardo Brito BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil’s Supreme Court on Wednesday elected Edson Fachin for a two-year term as chief justice starting in late September, while Alexandre de Moraes, who has been recently targeted by U.S. sanctions, was tapped as his deputy. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT Fachin’s tenure will coincide with Brazil’s presidential election next year and key …
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By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A federal appeals court on Wednesday lifted an injunction that required the U.S. State Department to continue making foreign aid payments, handing a victory to President Donald Trump. In a 2-1 decision, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said a lower …
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(Reuters) -The U.S. State Department has approved potential sales of munitions, precision bombs and precision rockets to Nigeria for an estimated cost of $346 million, the Pentagon said on Wednesday. The contractors for the sales are Lockheed Martin , RTX Missiles and Defense and BAE Systems, the statement said. (Reporting by Bhargav Acharya and Ryan …
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By Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Russia appears to be preparing to test its new nuclear-armed, nuclear-powered cruise missile, according to two U.S. researchers and a Western security source, even as Russian President Vladimir Putin readies for talks on Ukraine with U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday. Jeffrey Lewis of the California-based Middlebury Institute of International Studies, and Decker …
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By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) -Peru President Dina Boluarte signed a law on Wednesday pardoning military and police officers accused of human rights abuses committed from 1980 to 2000 during a bitter fight with leftist rebels. The law, approved by Congress in July, was enacted despite a request from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, …
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By Jana Choukeir and Ahmed Elimam BEIRUT (Reuters) -No group in Lebanon is permitted to bear arms or rely on foreign backing, its president told a visiting senior Iranian official on Wednesday after the cabinet approved the goals of a U.S.-backed roadmap to disarm the Iran-aligned Hezbollah group. During a meeting in Beirut with Ali …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that he warned U.S. President Donald Trump ahead of his talks with Vladimir Putin this week that the Russian leader is “bluffing” about his desire to end the war. Trump and Putin will meet in Alaska on Friday, where Kyiv and its allies are worried the …
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(Corrects headline and first paragraph to say 11 projects, not companies, adds story identifier) By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Energy said on Tuesday it has made an initial selection of 11 projects for a pilot program seeking to develop high-tech test nuclear reactors and get at least three of them to begin …
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