By Sarah Morland, Raul Cortes MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Indigenous rights defender Hugo Aguilar is leading in the race to head Mexico’s highest court after the country’s first popular election to appoint judges and magistrates, according to electoral authority data released on Tuesday. With 93% of votes counted from Sunday’s election, Aguilar had some 5.43 million …
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A bus accident in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon left 11 people and 17 injured in the early hours of Tuesday, governor Samuel Garcia said on X. (Reporting by Aida Pelaez-Fernandez)
ANKARA (Reuters) -The United States will scale down its military presence in Syria to one base from eight and U.S. policies will shift in the country “because none of them worked” over the last century, the new U.S. special envoy has said. Thomas Barrack, who President Donald Trump named special envoy last month shortly after …
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(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Monday that it had launched a generative AI tool, Elsa, aimed at improving efficiency across its operations, including scientific reviews. “Today’s rollout of Elsa is ahead of schedule and under budget, thanks to the collaboration of our in-house experts across the centers,” said FDA Commissioner Marty …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Crispian Balmer CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -At least 27 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded by Israeli fire near a food distribution site in southern Gaza on Tuesday, health officials said, in a third day running of chaos and bloodshed to blight the aid operation. The Israeli military said its forces had opened fire …
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By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) -Ecuador’s national assembly legislature on Tuesday backed a constitutional reform that would allow the installation of foreign military bases in the South American country, part of plans by President Daniel Noboa to increase cooperation to fight drug trafficking. The proposal was supported by 82 lawmakers and must now be put …
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday elected Bahrain, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Latvia, and Liberia to the 15-member U.N. Security Council for two-year terms starting on Jan. 1, 2026. The Security Council is the only U.N. body that can make legally binding decisions such as imposing sanctions …
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(Fixes typo in paragraph 19) By Francois Murphy and John Irish VIENNA (Reuters) -U.N. inspectors monitoring Iran’s Fordow nuclear site confronted a major gap in their knowledge last year as they watched trucks carrying advanced uranium-enriching centrifuges roll into the facility dug into a mountain south of Tehran. While Iran had notified the International Atomic …
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By Sarupya Ganguly BENGALURU (Reuters) – U.S. home prices will rise steadily over coming years on an expected further decline in mortgage rates, according to property experts in a Reuters survey who expressed a near-unanimous view President Donald Trump’s tariffs would hinder affordable home construction. The same analysts had said three months ago that affordability …
By Olivia Le Poidevin and Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -The United Nations human rights office said on Tuesday that the wilful impediment of access to food and relief for civilians in Gaza may constitute a war crime, describing attacks on civilians trying to access food aid as unconscionable. “For a third day running, people were …
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