By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli military strikes killed at least 85 people in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, Palestinian medics said, as the United States and Arab mediators pushed for a ceasefire deal and U.S. President Donald Trump visited the Middle East. Most of the victims, including women and children, were killed in Khan …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States targeted two senior Hezbollah officials and two financial facilitators with new sanctions on Thursday for their role in coordinating financial transfers to the Iran-backed group, the Treasury Department said. The latest sanctions come as President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the United States was getting very close to …
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By Nellie Peyton PRETORIA (Reuters) -South Africa’s Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Thursday that the government had not secured any new funding yet for HIV after the U.S. cut aid, and denied reports that its HIV programme was badly affected. The United States’ global HIV initiative, PEPFAR, was paying for about 17% of South …
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ANTALYA, Turkey (Reuters) – Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Thursday he will discuss the U.S. decision to lift sanctions on Syria and the roadmap ahead in a meeting with his U.S. and Syrian counterparts later in the day. Fidan was speaking to reporters on the sidelines of an informal NATO foreign ministers’ meeting …
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By Mike Stone, David Shepardson and Tim Hepher WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Boeing 747 jet offered to President Donald Trump by Qatar as a temporary flying White House might need fighter jet escorts and could be restricted to flying inside the U.S. unless significant costly security upgrades were made, aviation experts and industry sources said. …
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By Nelson Acosta HAVANA (Reuters) -Daily blackouts averaging four hours or more have become the new normal across Cuba’s capital of Havana, an unsettling sign of a still-unresolved energy crisis as the sultry Caribbean summer sets in. Havana’s misfortune follows a string of nationwide blackouts over several months, most recently in March, that plunged the …
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By Miranda Murray CANNES, France (Reuters) -Tom Cruise hit the Cannes Film Festival’s red carpet on Wednesday to a live band rendition of the “Mission: Impossible” theme song as organisers pulled out all the stops to celebrate what may be the action star’s last appearance in the franchise. Expectations had been high for Cruise’s return …
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DUBAI (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Qatar will invest $10 billion in the coming years in the Al Udeid Air Base southwest of Doha, the largest U.S. military facility in the Middle East. (Reporting by Nayera Abdallah and Andrew Mills; Editing by Michael Georgy)
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) – U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to require all new vaccines be tested against a placebo in human trials, and has said that almost no shots used in the United States have undergone such rigorous testing, which is not accurate. The American Academy of Pediatrics …
BEIJING (Reuters) -China will extend its visa-free policy to nationals of Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Uruguay, putting some of Latin America’s largest economies on equal footing with many European and Asian countries as it sought stronger ties with the region. The visa-free arrangement will be effective from June 1 for a year, Chinese foreign …
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