By Giselda Vagnoni VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The funeral of Pope Francis, who died this week at the age of 88, takes place on Saturday in St. Peter’s Square. Here is a guide to how events are expected to unfold: WHO IS ATTENDING? More than 200,000 people are expected to attend the ceremony in the …
By Mike Stone and Pesha Magid WASHINGTON/RIYADH (Reuters) -The United States is poised to offer Saudi Arabia an arms package worth well over $100 billion, six sources with direct knowledge of the issue told Reuters, saying the proposal was being lined up for announcement during U.S. President Donald Trump’s visit to the kingdom in May. …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Friday that Argentina’s election in October was for its people to decide, clarifying her remarks on Thursday that Argentina should stay the course on economic reforms. “Elections are for the Argentine people, not for us,” Georgieva told reporters during IMF and World Bank …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Ukrainian and European officials pushed back this week against some U.S. proposals on how to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, making counterproposals on issues from territory to sanctions, according to the full texts of the proposals seen by Reuters. The sets of proposals from talks between U.S., European and Ukrainian officials in …
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By Jana Choukeir (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump this week said he is open to meeting Iran’s supreme leader or president and that he thinks the two countries will strike a new deal on Tehran’s disputed nuclear programme. However, Trump, who in 2018 pulled the U.S. out of a now moribund nuclear deal between …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he had spoken with Chinese President Xi Jinping numerous times but did not say when the two leaders last talked or what topics they discussed. Asked whether he has spoken with Xi since enacting his tariff plan, Trump told reporters: “I don’t want to comment …
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By Emma Farge and Nidal al-Mughrabi GENEVA/CAIRO (Reuters) – The World Food Programme said on Friday it had run out of food stocks in Gaza due to the sustained closure of crossings into the enclave, while Gaza authorities said Israeli airstrikes had killed at least 78 people in the past 24 hours. “The WFP has …
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By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Interior Department said on Thursday it has implemented new guidelines for allowable pressure differences in a certain type of oil drilling in part of the Gulf of Mexico, changes it expects can boost U.S. oil output. President Donald Trump’s new Energy Dominance Council led by Interior Secretary …
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By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump this week said his administration is talking with China to strike a tariff deal and that Chinese President Xi Jinping had called him, Time magazine reported, as Beijing has so far disputed the U.S. characterization of talks. The Republican president, in an interview with the magazine …
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By Fatos Bytyci PRISTINA (Reuters) – Kosovo’s parliament failed to elect a new speaker for the fourth time on Friday, prolonging a legislative crisis that has prevented efforts to form a new government more than two months after an inconclusive election. Under Kosovo’s constitution, a parliamentary speaker must be voted in before the election winner …
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