BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union ambassadors signed off on Wednesday on a new flagship arms-buying fund, being set up quickly to provide 150 billion euros ($170 billion) in loans for defence projects, driven by fears of Russia and doubts about future U.S. protection of Europe. The European Commission, the EU’s executive body, proposed the fund …
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By Timour Azhari and Jonathan Spicer DAMASCUS/ISTANBUL (Reuters) -The United States will appoint President Donald Trump’s longtime advisor and current U.S. ambassador to Turkey, Thomas Barrack, as a special envoy for Syria, a person with direct knowledge of the matter and a diplomat in Turkey said. The decision follows Trump’s landmark announcement last week that …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -China is “seriously concerned” about the U.S. Golden Dome missile defence shield project and urged Washington to abandon its development，a foreign ministry spokesperson said on Wednesday. U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he had selected a design for the $175-billion project and named a Space Force general to head the ambitious program …
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By Erin Banco NEW YORK (Reuters) -A top adviser to Tulsi Gabbard, the U.S. director of national intelligence, acknowledged in a March 24 email that the Venezuelan government may not have specifically directed the activities of a gang that the Trump administration has used to justify fast-tracking deportations of immigrants, but argued that a link …
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By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) -A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked enforcement of an Oklahoma law that imposes criminal penalties on non-citizens who enter Oklahoma illegally, saying the law likely intrudes on the federal government’s authority over immigration. U.S. District Judge Bernard Jones ruled the law, HB 4156, may not be enforced for …
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(Reuters) -New intelligence obtained by the United States suggests that Israel is making preparations to strike Iranian nuclear facilities, CNN reported on Tuesday, citing multiple U.S. officials familiar with the intelligence. It was not clear whether Israeli leaders have made a final decision and there was disagreement within the U.S. government about whether they would …
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CARACAS/HOUSTON (Reuters) -A U.S. citizen who had been detained for months in Venezuela is back in the United States, U.S. President Donald Trump envoy Richard Grenell said on Tuesday, after the freed man’s family said he had been handed over to U.S. authorities. “Joe St. Clair is back in America,” Grenell said in a post …
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PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (Reuters) – The results of genetic tests suggested that Brazil’s first outbreak of bird flu on a commercial poultry farm in the state of Rio Grande do Sul shares the strain with cases in zoo animals in the same state, an official told Reuters on Tuesday. Rosane Collares, a director at the …
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) – A suspected case of bird flu in a farm worker in the Brazilian city of Montenegro came back negative, the health ministry of Rio Grande do Sul, the country’s southernmost state, said in a statement on Tuesday. The worker worked at the poultry grange where authorities last week identified Brazil’s first …
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By Daphne Psaledakis, Patricia Zengerle and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday the number of visas he has revoked was probably in the thousands, adding that he believed there was still more to do. Republican President Donald Trump’s administration has sought to ramp up deportations and revoke student …
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