OTTAWA, Dec 4 (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of air strike weapons and related equipment to Canada for an estimated cost of $2.68 billion, the Pentagon said on Thursday. The principal contractors for the sale will be Boeing Co and RTX Corp, the Pentagon said in a statement. (Reporting …
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By Francois Murphy VIENNA, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Ukraine wants “real peace, not appeasement” with Russia, its foreign minister said on Thursday at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the security and rights body seeking a role for itself in a post-war Ukraine. The path ahead for peace talks is currently unclear, U.S. …
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By Jasper Ward WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) – The Bahamas is proposing to impose harsher penalties on human smugglers, a move that officials say they hope will help dismantle criminal organizations that use the Caribbean nation as a staging point to smuggle migrants into the United States. “The Bahamas will not be a stepping stone for …
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Dec 4 (Reuters) – Honduran centrist presidential candidate Salvador Nasralla said on Thursday that voting data had been altered and called for an investigation. “I publicly denounce that today, at 3:24 a.m., the screen went dark and an algorithm, similar to the one used in 2013, changed the data,” Nasralla wrote on social media. He …
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By Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Seven more Ukrainian children have been returned from Russia to their families in a welcome sign of cooperation between the countries, U.S. first lady Melania Trump said on Thursday, a day after her husband said the path to peace was unclear. The first lady has made the …
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MEXICO CITY, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Thursday she will travel to Washington for the draw of the 2026 soccer World Cup, and will also meet with U.S. President Donald Trump and Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney. Sheinbaum said in a daily morning press conference she would hold a “short …
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By Jennifer Rigby LONDON, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Around 200,000 more children will likely die before their fifth birthday this year than in 2024 – the first increase in preventable child deaths this century – in the wake of international aid cuts, the Gates Foundation said on Thursday. In 2024, an estimated 4.6 million children …
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JERUSALEM, Dec 4 (Reuters) – The Israeli military said on Thursday that its forces have killed around 40 Hamas militants who had been trapped in tunnels below Rafah in southern Gaza, in an area now under Israeli control. Around 200 militants had been trapped in the tunnels for months, according to Israeli and U.S. officials, …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Alexander Cornwell CAIRO/JERUSALEM, Dec 3 (Reuters) – Israel received a body that Hamas said was one of the last two deceased hostages in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, as Israel said it would allow Gaza’s gateway to Egypt to open once all hostages were returned. A body has been transferred by …
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By Laura Garcia TEGUCIGALPA, Dec 4 (Reuters) – Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez will not immediately return to the Central American country after leaving this week the U.S. prison where he was serving a sentence for drug trafficking, his wife told Reuters, citing security reasons for the decision. On Monday, Hernandez left Hazelton prison …
