Dec 8 (Reuters) – Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday that Moscow had received no word on the outcome of talks in Florida on a settlement in Ukraine between U.S. and Ukrainian officials. “For the moment, we don’t know the outcome of talks between the Ukrainians and the Americans in Florida,” the RIA news …
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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) – A set of tough U.S. sanctions imposed on Syria under its former leader Bashar al-Assad could be lifted within weeks, after their repeal was included in a sweeping defense policy bill unveiled during the weekend and due for votes in Congress within days. The Senate and House …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) – U.S. military helicopters on training missions would need to broadcast alerts to nearby commercial aviation aircraft around Reagan Washington National Airport to avoid collisions under annual defense policy legislation unveiled late Sunday. In January, an Army Black Hawk helicopter on a training mission that was not using a …
By Emily Green SAN ANTONIO DE FLORES, Honduras, Dec 7 (Reuters) – Residents in a rural Honduran town cast their ballots on Sunday in a delayed vote that could help decide the closest presidential contest in the nation’s history and whether U.S. President Donald Trump’s preferred candidate can hold onto his razor-thin lead. At dawn …
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GENEVA, Dec 8 (Reuters) – More than 100 people, including dozens of children, were killed in attacks on a kindergarten in Sudan that continued even as parents and caretakers rushed the wounded to a nearby hospital, the World Health Organization said on Monday. Health facilities in Sudan have repeatedly come under attack near the frontlines …
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DAMASCUS, Dec 8 (Reuters) – A year after dictator Bashar al-Assad’s ouster in Syria, little has changed in Amina Beqai’s desperate quest. She types her missing husband’s name yet again into an internet search box, hoping for answers to a 13-year-old question. In vain. Beqai has nowhere else to turn. A National Commission for Missing …
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GENEVA, Dec 8 (Reuters) – More than 3 million Syrians have returned home since the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s rule a year ago but a decline in global funding could deter others, the U.N. refugee agency said on Monday. Some 1.2 million refugees in addition to 1.9 million internally displaced people have gone back home …
Syrian refugee returns set to slow as donor support fades Read More »
By Jeff Mason and Steve Holland WASHINGTON, Dec 7 – U.S. President Donald Trump solidified his takeover of Washington’s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday by hosting its flagship awards program, mixing politics with a celebration of stars from music and film. This year’s Kennedy Center Honors, widely seen as the …
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By Byron Kaye and Cordelia Hsu SYDNEY, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Sydney teenager Ayris Tolson believes the start of her first summer holiday under Australia’s youth social media ban will be relatively easy as she spends time with family, but as the weeks drift by, she fears being alone and isolated. From December 10, Australia …
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By Renju Jose and Lucy Craymer SYDNEY/WELLINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) – An Australian firefighter was killed overnight after he was struck by a tree while trying to control a bushfire that had destroyed homes and burnt large swathes of bushland north of Sydney, authorities said on Monday. Emergency crews rushed to bushland near the rural …
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