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By Nicolas Cortes and Sarah Morland SANTIAGO (Reuters) – A Haitian woman who moved to South America nearly a decade ago was finally reunited with her daughter through a local visa program that highlighted both the escalating conflict in the Caribbean and sharpening tensions over migration as Chile’s presidential election season ramps up. Christa Belus, …

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By Kirsty Needham and Samuel McKeith SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australians voted on Saturday in a national election that polls show will likely favour Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s Labor Party over the conservative opposition, as worries about President Donald Trump’s volatile policies overshadowed calls for change. Both of Australia’s major parties have focused on assuaging cost-of-living concerns …

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SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australians fired up barbecues and wore tight-fit swim trunks called “budgy smugglers” to voting centres as they welcomed election day on Saturday with some unique and quirky traditions. Voters across the country grabbed a “democracy sausage”, which is sausages, burgers or other barbecued meat sold by volunteers at polling booths, as they turned …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. military has created a second military zone along the border with Mexico, adding an area in Texas where troops can temporarily detain migrants or trespassers after another such area was designated in New Mexico last month. President Donald Trump has launched an aggressive immigration enforcement campaign since taking office, increasing troops …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration said on Friday it was revoking the admittance of Romania to the U.S. visa waiver program that allows visa-free travel to the United States, less than four months after the announcement that it would be added. The outgoing administration of then President Joe Biden said on January …

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(Reuters) – Iran has to ‘walk away’ from uranium enrichment and long-range missile development and it should allow Americans to inspect its facilities, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday as a round of nuclear talks was postponed. Rubio’s comments underscore the major remaining divisions in talks between the countries to resolve the …

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By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. State Department approved a possible foreign military sale to Saudi Arabia of AIM-120C-8 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles and related support for $3.5 billion, the Pentagon said in a statement on Friday. The U.S. is poised to offer Saudi Arabia an arms package worth well over $100 billion …

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s security cabinet approved plans for an expanded operation in the Gaza Strip, Israeli media reported on Friday, adding to signs that attempts to stop the fighting and return hostages held by Hamas have made no progress. The decision came after comments from both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the head of …

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By Sarah Morland (Reuters) – The United States on Friday designated Haiti’s powerful Viv Ansanm gang alliance, whose members have taken control of almost all the capital Port-au-Prince and spread to surrounding areas, a “transnational terrorist group”. The U.S. Treasury Department also applied the designation to the Gran Grif gang, which in October took responsibility …

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