By Nandita Bose DES MOINES (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he is planning to bring an Ultimate Fighting Championship event to the White House next year to help celebrate the 250th anniversary of the country’s declaration of independence. Known in the mixed martial arts world as the “Combatant in Chief,” Trump counts …
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LA PAZ (Reuters) -Bolivia’s energy minister was doused with water and pelted with garbage on Thursday as chaos erupted in congress during a debate on controversial lithium contracts with Chinese and Russian firms that could bring in investments worth some $2 billion. It was the latest outburst of growing tension over Bolivia’s efforts to fast-track …
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By Timothy Gardner and Brendan O’Brien WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. imposed sanctions on Thursday against a network that smuggles Iranian oil disguised as Iraqi oil and on a Hezbollah-controlled financial institution, the Treasury Department said. A network of companies run by Iraqi-British national Salim Ahmed Said has been buying and shipping billions of dollars worth …
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By Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States has recalled its top diplomat from the U.S. embassy in Bogota over statements it said were made at high levels of the Colombian government, the U.S. State Department said on Thursday, prompting the South American country to also recall its ambassador to the U.S. President Donald Trump’s …
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(Reuters) -Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said on Thursday he was withdrawing the country’s ambassador to the United States Daniel Garcia for consultations, hours after Washington said it was recalling its top diplomat in the Andean nation. (Reporting by Kylie Madry; Writing Brendan O’Boyle; Editing by Sarah Morland)
(Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has called off his first visit to Japan and South Korea to focus on Middle East, Japan’s Nikkei newspaper reported on Thursday. (Reporting by Sneha Kumar in Bengaluru; Editing by Mohammed Safi Shamsi)
By Riham Alkousaa and Charlotte Greenfield BERLIN/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -In a cramped guesthouse in Pakistan’s capital, 25-year-old Kimia spends her days sketching women — dancing, playing, resisting —in a notebook that holds what’s left of her hopes. A visual artist and women’s rights advocate, she fled Afghanistan in 2024 after being accepted on to a German …
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SAN PEDRO HUAMELULA, Mexico (Reuters) -In the southern Mexican town of San Pedro Huamelula, a unique celebration takes place each year: the symbolic marriage between the town’s mayor and a live alligator-like reptile. This ritual, rooted in more than 230 years of tradition, represents the union of two of Oaxaca state’s indigenous cultures – the …
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(Reuters) -The United States plans to hold talks with Iran about its nuclear program in Oslo next week, Axios reported on Thursday, citing two unidentified sources. (Reporting by Bhargav Acharya and Brendan O’Brien; Editing by Doina Chiacu)
By Anastasiia Malenko and Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) -Russia killed two people in an airstrike on the central Ukrainian city of Poltava on Thursday and damaged a military draft office there in what Kyiv said was a concerted campaign to disrupt recruitment for its war effort. The strike on Poltava, which also injured 47 people …
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