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CARACAS/VALENCIA/CAPACHO (Reuters) -A singer and a barber were among the former Venezuelan migrants who returned to their families on Tuesday, after spending months detained in a notorious prison in El Salvador before being sent back to Venezuela last week. Singer Arturo Suarez was greeted with hugs and tears in working-class El Valle, south of capital …

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By Laurie Chen BEIJING (Reuters) -Expectations are rock-bottom for an EU-China summit on Thursday that will test European resolve and unity as the bloc faces intense trade pressure from both Beijing and the United States, analysts say. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Antonio Costa plan to press Chinese leaders …

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(Corrects victim’s first name to Etan, from Ethan, in bullet point and paragraph 1) By Steve Gorman (Reuters) -A federal appeals court on Monday overturned the conviction of a former Manhattan bodega clerk found guilty of kidnapping and murdering Etan Patz, a 6-year-old boy whose 1979 disappearance stoked national fears about missing and abducted children. …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a three-day investigative hearing starting July 30 over the fatal collision in January between a U.S. Army helicopter and an American Airlines regional jet that killed 67 near Reagan Washington National Airport. The board will also release thousands of pages of records from …

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By Sarah N. Lynch and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Justice Department has asked lawyers for Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell if she would be willing to speak with U.S. prosecutors, and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Tuesday he expected to meet with her in the coming days. The decision to request a …

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By Ruma Paul and Sam Jahan DHAKA (Reuters) -Police used tear gas to disperse angry students in Bangladesh on Tuesday who demanded answers from the interim government after an air force fighter jet crashed into a Dhaka school and killed 31 people, at least 25 of them children. The children, many aged under 12, were …

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