By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) -The United States is at a tipping point for the return of endemic measles a quarter century after the disease was declared eradicated in the country, researchers warned on Thursday. At current U.S. childhood vaccination rates, measles could return to spreading regularly at high levels, with an estimated 851,300 cases over …
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By Joshua McElwee and Giulia Segreti VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Mourners stood in line for hours on Thursday to pay their final respects to Pope Francis, whose body is lying in state in St. Peter’s Basilica ahead of his funeral on Saturday. Huge queues snaked around St. Peter’s Square and the surrounding roads, before being …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was not happy with Russia’s strikes on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv overnight and said without elaborating the U.S. was putting a lot of pressure on Russia to make a deal. “You have no idea what pressure I’m putting … We’re putting a lot of pressure. …
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By Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Gunmen on a motorcycle shot and killed two members of a civil search organization that discovered a now-infamous site known as Mexico’s “ranch of horror,” the group and authorities said on Thursday. The two victims, Carmen Morales and her son Jaime Ramirez, died after they were shot by …
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By Promit Mukherjee and Rod Nickel PORT MOODY, British Columbia (Reuters) -Donald Trump re-emerged as a factor in Canada’s election campaign on Thursday, days before a vote that Prime Minister Mark Carney says will determine how Ottawa can best stand up to the U.S. President. Carney launched the race last month, calling for a strong …
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(Reuters) -The Crimean peninsula, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014, is at the centre of the worst East-West standoff since the Cold War. The issue led to another clash between U.S. President Donald Trump and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday. Trump chided the Ukrainian leader for refusing to recognise Russia’s occupation of Crimea as …
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By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday lashed out at a lawyer for the Trump Organization who is also representing Harvard University in its lawsuit against his administration, saying the company should fire him. Trump’s post on his social media platform Truth Social did not name the attorney, but it appeared …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer held a productive virtual meeting with his Vietnamese counterpart in which they agreed on the importance of making swift progress on reciprocal trade, his office said in a statement on Thursday. Greer and Vietnam’s Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien spoke on Wednesday and “instructed …
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By Andrew MacAskill, Alistair Smout and William Schomberg LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Britain is edging towards a new defence agreement with the European Union that officials on both sides hope will help to improve post-Brexit ties following U.S. President Donald Trump’s upending of security and trade alliances. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has been trying to reset …
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By Miguel Lo Bianco BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – In the poor Zavaleta district of Buenos Aires, amidst precarious houses and narrow alleys, Marina Ayala walks the same streets Pope Francis walked during his years as a priest to reach the local parish, which is now opening its doors to remember him. “He was with us …
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