By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) -The U.N. rights office said on Tuesday it had recorded at least 875 killings within the past six weeks at aid points in Gaza run by the U.S.- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and convoys run by other relief groups, including the United Nations. The majority of those killed …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Wednesday will detail the Trump administration’s plans to overhaul the aging U.S. air traffic control system after Congress awarded an initial $12.5 billion in funding. The Federal Aviation Administration’s air traffic control network’s woes have been years in the making, but a rush of high-profile mishaps, near-misses …
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SWEIDA (Reuters) -Israel carried out strikes against Syrian government forces in southwestern Syria for a second day on Tuesday, vowing to keep the area demilitarized and to protect the Druze minority as deadly clashes continued in the region at the Israeli frontier. A Reuters reporter said they heard drones and at least four strikes over …
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(Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the foreign ministers of France, Germany and the UK agreed in a phone call on Monday to set the end of August as the de facto deadline for reaching a nuclear deal with Iran, Axios reported, citing three sources. If no deal is reached by that deadline, …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The administration of President Donald Trump has asked Israel to stop its strikes on Syrian military forces in the south of the country, Axios reported on Tuesday, citing a U.S. official. Israel told the Americans that it would cease the attacks on Tuesday evening, Axios reporter Barak Ravid posted on X, citing the …
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HAVANA (Reuters) -Cuba’s labor minister denied there are beggars in the poor, Communist-run country in official testimony, prompting rare criticism by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel of one of his own ministers on Tuesday. “We have seen people who appear to be beggars, but when you look at their hands, when you look at the clothes …
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By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld West Virginia’s near-total ban on abortion, including limits on the widely used medication abortion drug mifepristone. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, said the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone did not preempt West Virginia’s law as applied …
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -NASA retiree turned private astronaut Peggy Whitson splashed down safely in the Pacific early on Tuesday after her fifth trip to the International Space Station, joined by crewmates from India, Poland and Hungary returning from their countries’ first ISS mission. A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying the four-member team …
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By Luciana Magalhaes and Ricardo Brito SAO PAULO (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump pitched his 50% tariffs against Brazil as a way to support former President Jair Bolsonaro, but three people close to the right-wing ex-president said they were stunned by the move and fear it may do more harm than good. Announcing the higher …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union did not approve the 18th Russia sanctions package on Tuesday, the EU’s foreign chief Kaja Kallas said after a meeting with EU foreign ministers in Brussels. She said she was “really sad” the sanctions did not get approved, but hopeful a deal will be reached on Wednesday, adding that the …
