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By Selena Li HONG KONG (Reuters) -Citigroup is cutting up to 200 information technology (IT) contractor roles in China, two people familiar with the matter said, as the bank looks to hire its own staff globally for such operations to improve risk management and data governance. Last July, U.S. bank regulators fined Citi $136 million …

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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico’s powerful security cabinet is investigating the murder of a young beauty influencer killed as she livestreamed a video on TikTok, President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Thursday. Authorities say the death of Valeria Marquez, 23, is being probed as a possible femicide, the killing of women or girls for reasons of gender. …

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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A 39-year-old woman is the first Mexican national to be indicted in the United States on charges of providing material support to a cartel designated as a foreign terrorist organization, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Friday, citing Texas court documents. According to the statement, Maria Del Rosario Navarro-Sanchez is …

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(Reuters) -President Donald Trump on Friday said Iran had a U.S. proposal about its nuclear program and knows it needs to move quickly to resolve a decades-long dispute, but Tehran denied receiving one yet. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi in a post on X said Tehran had not received a U.S. proposal. “There is no …

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By Nayera Abdallah, Yousef Saba and Federico Maccioni DUBAI (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Friday on his last stop on a Gulf tour focused on business deals that the United Arab Emirates and the United States had agreed a path for the Gulf country to buy advanced AI semiconductors from U.S. companies, a …

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By Jessica Donati, Emma Farge, Ammu Kannampilly and Jonathan Landay (Reuters) – Food rations that could supply 3.5 million people for a month are mouldering in warehouses around the world because of U.S. aid cuts and risk becoming unusable, according to five people familiar with the situation. The food stocks have been stuck inside four …

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By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The World Bank said on Friday it had cleared Syria’s $15.5 million in outstanding debt after receiving payments from Saudi Arabia and Qatar, making the country eligible for millions of dollars in grants for reconstruction and budget support. Saudi Arabia and Qatar said in April that they would cover Syria’s …

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ROME (Reuters) – Acute food insecurity and child malnutrition rose for a sixth consecutive year in 2024, affecting more than 295 million people across 53 countries and territories, according to a U.N. report released on Friday. That marked a 5% increase on 2023 levels, with 22.6% of populations in worst-hit regions experiencing crisis-level hunger or …

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