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Factbox-Potential contenders to replace Justin Trudeau as Canadian prime minister

14 Jan 2025

By David Ljunggren (Reuters) -Canada’s ruling Liberal Party is looking for a new leader to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who announced on Jan. 6 he intended to step down. The Liberal Party will pick a new chief on March 9. On Tuesday, Federal Innovation Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne announced he would not run.  Here are …

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Brazil says Meta hate speech policy changes do not fit with local law

14 Jan 2025

BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil’s government said on Tuesday it is “seriously concerned” about Meta Platforms’ recently announced changes to its hate speech policy, adding that it believes they do not comply with the country’s legislation. Facebook owner Meta last week reduced curbs on discussions around contentious topics such as immigration and gender identity, while also scrapping …

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Disaster aid for California should not come with conditions, US House Democratic Caucus chair says

14 Jan 2025

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic Caucus chair Pete Aguilar said on Tuesday he will not support conditions to disaster assistance for fire-ravaged California, as top Republicans in Congress consider making the aid conditional. “House Democrats are willing to roll up our sleeves and to stay here as long as possible, to have the conversations, but at …

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Explainer-Why does Trump want Greenland and could he get it?

14 Jan 2025

By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen, Louise Rasmussen, Stine Jacobsen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump says he wants to make Greenland a part of the United States and does not rule out using military or economic power to get Denmark to hand it over. WHY DOES TRUMP WANT GREENLAND? Greenland’s strategic location and resources could benefit the …

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Economic woes not a deal breaker as China’s Lunar New Year travel rush kicks off

14 Jan 2025

By Liz Lee BEIJING (Reuters) – The annual travel rush for China’s Lunar New Year celebrations officially began on Tuesday, with many taking a mental break from their worries about the future to reunite with family or take a holiday. The peak travel season in the world’s second-largest economy kicked off with a train departing …

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Factbox-China’s Lunar New Year travel rush: World’s biggest annual migration

14 Jan 2025

BEIJING (Reuters) – Hundreds of millions of Chinese criss-cross the country during the Lunar New Year holidays each year to reunite with families back in their hometowns or for sight-seeing during an extended festive period, making it the world’s largest annual human migration. The Lunar New Year travel rush, known as Chunyun in Chinese, is …

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More than 1 million people displaced by raging Haiti gang violence, UN says

14 Jan 2025

GENEVA (Reuters) – More than a million people, over half of them children, are now displaced within Haiti where gang violence continues unabated despite the start of a United Nations-backed security mission last year, U.N. data showed on Tuesday. The tally of 1.04 million displaced people released by the International Organization for Migration represents a …

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US aluminium premium shows market sanguine over threat of Trump tariffs on Canada

14 Jan 2025

By Pratima Desai LONDON (Reuters) – Although aluminium prices for U.S. consumers have risen since Donald Trump’s election win, the rise has been muted, signalling the industry is not expecting the President-elect to carry out his threat to impose hefty tariffs on Canadian imports. Prices of primary aluminium in the United States, a net importer …

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Erdogan ally urges jailed militant leader to announce PKK’s disbandment

14 Jan 2025

ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s nationalist ally on Tuesday urged jailed PKK militant group leader Abdullah Ocalan to announce the group’s disbandment after his next meeting with the country’s pro-Kurdish political party. The remarks by Devlet Bahceli, leader of the nationalist MHP party, came after a rare meeting between officials from the pro-Kurdish DEM …

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