CAIRO (Reuters) – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Iran would not “bow to any bully” in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s criticism of Tehran during his Gulf tour. “He (Trump) thinks he can come here, chant slogans, and scare us. For us, martyrdom is far sweeter than dying in bed. You came to frighten …
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(Reuters) -The United States issued sanctions on Wednesday to target Iranian efforts to domestically manufacture components for ballistic missiles, the U.S. Treasury Department said. The sanctions target six individuals and 12 entities for what the Treasury Department said was “their involvement in efforts to help the Iranian regime domestically source the manufacturing of critical materials …
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By Nellie Peyton JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Testing and monitoring of HIV patients across South Africa have fallen since the United States cut aid that funded health workers and clinics, with pregnant women, infants and youth the most affected, previously unpublished government data shows. South Africa has the world’s highest burden of HIV, with about 8 million …
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By Andrew Hay (Reuters) – Cases of migrants caught in new military zones on the U.S.-Mexico border have been stalled over legal confusion, and lawyers and a U.S. senator on Wednesday raised concerns over whether people actually know when they are entering the zones. The U.S. Army starting last month set up the zones in …
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By Gram Slattery, Pesha Magid and Andrew Mills DOHA (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump met with Syria’s president in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday and urged him to normalise ties with longtime foe Israel after a surprise U.S. announcement that it would lift all sanctions on the Islamist-led government. Trump then flew to Qatar, where he …
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By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) -Ecuador’s national assembly legislature on Wednesday elected Niels Olsen, a close ally of President Daniel Noboa, as its new body president, ensuring Noboa has a majority for now as he pushes anti-crime and economic reforms. A total of 80 legislators from Noboa’s National Democratic Action (ADN) party and lawmakers from …
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By Gram Slattery, Pesha Magid, Nafisa Eltahir and Timour Azhari RIYADH/DAMASCUS (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would order the lifting of sanctions on Syria at the behest of Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, a major U.S. policy shift ahead of an expected meeting with Syria’s Islamist President Ahmed al-Sharaa. Trump is set …
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By Kristina Cooke and Ted Hesson (Reuters) – Venezuelans held in a high-security prison in El Salvador shouted “freedom” and used a hand signal for help in a video published by the far-right One America News Network, a rare glimpse of the detainees since they were sent there by the U.S. in March. Matt Gaetz, …
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(Reuters) – Agreements signed by U.S. President Donald Trump and Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani on Wednesday will “generate an economic exchange worth at least $1.2 trillion,” the White House said in a fact sheet summarizing some of the deals’ details. The agreements include a $96 billion deal with Qatar Airways to buy …
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By Thomas Escritt and Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) – Countries will not be able to fill the gap if the U.S. withdraws its funding for the United Nations peacekeeping mission, Germany’s foreign minister said on Wednesday. “We won’t fully be able to fill the gap if the U.S. withdraws from peacekeeping funding,” Johann Wadephul …
