By Emily Rose JERUSALEM (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy told families of hostages being held by Palestinian militant group Hamas on Saturday that he was working with the Israeli government on a plan that would effectively end the war in Gaza. Trump has made ending the conflict a major priority of his …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States is reviewing a decision to deny entry to a Venezuelan Little League team that had been due to compete in an international baseball tournament in South Carolina, the State Department said on Saturday. Cacique Mara Little League is now out of contention for this year’s 2025 Senior League Baseball World …
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By Emily Green (Reuters) -There was no shortage of warning signs that El Salvador President Nayib Bukele would attempt to stay in power indefinitely, his critics say. There was the time Bukele stormed the legislative assembly with armed soldiers during his first year in office. Or a year after that, when his allies in the …
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LIMA (Reuters) -Informal miners in Peru suspended talks with the government and may resume protests due to disagreements in negotiations, one of the protest leaders said on Friday. CONFEMIN union leader, Maximo Franco Bequer, told reporters the government refused to alter an August 17 deadline for miners to move explosives into formal “powder magazines.” He …
WASHINGTON/BRASILIA (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva can call him anytime to discuss tariffs and other friction between the countries. “He can talk to me anytime he wants,” Trump said of Lula, speaking to reporters at the White House. He added he was fond of …
By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) -Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe was sentenced by a judge on Friday to 12 years of house arrest for abuse of process and bribery of a public official, in a long-running case over connections to former right-wing paramilitaries. Uribe was convicted of the two charges on Monday by Judge …
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By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO (Reuters) -Canada is working with the United States to “deal with” countries reluctant to accept deportees as both nations increase efforts to ship migrants back to their home countries, according to a government document seen by Reuters. Since President Donald Trump began his second term in January, the United States …
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By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -An international crew of four astronauts launched toward the International Space Station from Florida on Friday aboard a SpaceX rocket, embarking on a routine NASA mission that could be the first of many to last a couple months longer than usual. The four-person crew – two NASA astronauts, a Russian …
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By Jasper Ward and Ryan Patrick Jones WASHINGTON/TORONTO(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order increasing tariffs on Canadian goods to 35% from 25% on all products not covered by the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement, the White House said. Goods transshipped to another country to evade the new tariffs would be subject to …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Charlotte Greenfield CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy visited a U.S.-backed aid operation in Gaza on Friday, which the United Nations has partly blamed for deadly conditions in the enclave, saying he sought to get food and other aid to people there. Steve Witkoff visited a site run by …
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