MADRID (Reuters) -The Spanish government on Tuesday introduced a bill to automatically declassify all secret government files older than 45 years, including documents from Francisco Franco’s dictatorship and the transition to democracy. If approved by parliament, the proposed law could shed light on some of Spain’s darkest chapters, including Franco’s ties to Adolf Hitler, the …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) -At least 25 children were among the 27 people killed when a Bangladesh Air Force plane crashed into a college and school campus in the capital city of Dhaka on Monday. Here is a look at what happened. HOW DID THE CRASH OCCUR? The fighter aircraft took off at 1:06 p.m. (0706 …
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By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Global current account balances widened sharply in 2024, reversing a narrowing under way since the global financial crisis of 2008-2009, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday, warning that tariffs were not the answer. In its annual External Sector Report, which assesses imbalances in the 30 largest economies, the IMF …
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By Charlotte Greenfield JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Jerusalem’s Latin Patriarch, said on Tuesday he and church leaders had returned from a visit to Gaza with “broken hearts”, calling the spiralling humanitarian crisis there “morally unacceptable”. Pizzaballa and Theophilos III, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, on Friday visited the Holy Family Church compound in …
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WARSAW (Reuters) -Seventy years after Soviet dictator Josef Stalin “gifted” the Palace of Culture and Science to Warsaw, the towering skyscraper at the heart of Poland’s capital still stirs strong feelings among Poles. The Palace – which is marking the 70th anniversary of its official opening on July 22, 1955, when Poland was part of …
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CARACAS/SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) -Venezuela Attorney General Tarek Saab said on Monday that his office will investigate El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele and two other officials for the alleged abuse of Venezuelans who were detained in the Central American country. More than 250 Venezuelans held in El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison returned to Venezuela on Friday, under …
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(Reuters) -Argentina said on Monday that Chinese citizens with valid U.S. entry visas would not need Argentine visas to enter the country for tourism or business, a loosening of requirements that comes amid warming ties between Beijing and Buenos Aires. Argentina is a key supplier of products including beef, soy and lithium to the Chinese …
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QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) -Police in southwestern Pakistan have arrested 14 suspects over the so-called honour killing of a couple accused of having an affair, including a local tribal chief who ordered their deaths, officials said on Monday. The killings in Pakistan’s Balochistan province last month came to attention after a video showing the couple being …
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By Jihoon Lee SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s new finance minister and the country’s top trade envoy will meet in Washington with U.S. counterparts on Friday for talks on U.S. tariffs, Finance Minister Koo Yun-cheol said on Tuesday. The country’s foreign and industry ministers will also visit the U.S. for trade discussions as early as this …
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By Daphne Psaledakis and Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday paved the way for the United States to deport certain lawful permanent residents, saying Washington determined some had supported Haitian gang leaders connected to a U.S.-designated “terrorist” organization. Rubio in a statement said certain U.S. lawful permanent residents had …
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