By Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) – From patrols on the River Tiber to surveillance drones and snipers deployed around St. Peter’s Square, Rome is preparing to throw a thoroughly modern security shield around the ancient rituals of a papal funeral and its attendant huge crowds. More than 200,000 people are expected to attend Pope Francis’ …
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazilian ex-President Jair Bolsonaro’s health condition has worsened after gut surgery earlier this month, a medical note from DF Star Hospital said on Thursday. Bolsonaro remains in the intensive care unit and will undergo new tests, the note added. (Reporting by Ricardo Brito; Writing by Isabel Teles; Editing by Kylie Madry)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Department of State policy planning director Michael Anton will lead a team of about a dozen U.S. government officials to negotiate with Iran in upcoming nuclear talks, a U.S. official said on Thursday. Expert-level Iran-U.S. talks will take place on Saturday, Tehran’s foreign ministry spokesperson said, with a third round of high-level nuclear …
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) – More than a thousand people in Istanbul turned to mosques, schools and other temporary shelters on Thursday after a strong earthquake rattled the Turkish metropolis a day earlier, leaving some 1.5 million buildings at risk, authorities said. The magnitude 6.2 tremor on Wednesday sent citizens dashing from shaking homes, reviving memories of …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund plans to work with Syria to help it reintegrate into the global economy, IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said on Thursday, citing a meeting on the war-scarred nation held this week. Georgieva told reporters that Syria’s central bank governor and finance minister attended the Spring Meetings of the IMF …
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(Reuters) – Lebanon’s foreign ministry reprimanded Tehran’s ambassador to Beirut on Thursday over comments alleging that plans to disarm Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah were a “conspiracy”. Hezbollah is under mounting pressure to relinquish its arsenal after a 2024 conflict with Israel badly weakened it and left much of southern Lebanon in ruins. President Joseph …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Thursday that Russia is not holding talks with Europe or the United States about Russian gas supplies via Ukraine. Russian gas supplies to Europe have collapsed since the start of the military conflict in Ukraine in February 2022 and blasts at the subsea Nord Stream pipelines. Gas exports …
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By Eduardo Baptista SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China’s national space agency announced on Thursday it would let scientists from the U.S. and allied countries analyse rocks it retrieved from the moon, Beijing’s latest move to increase the international influence of its lunar exploration programme. The announcement highlights how U.S.-China cooperation in some areas like space has not …
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By Paul Simao (Reuters) -The fraying relationship with the U.S. has taken on oversized importance for Canadian voters who head to the polls on Monday to decide whether to give Prime Minister Mark Carney’s ruling Liberals another mandate. The five-week campaign is taking place in the slipstream of the trade war that President Donald Trump …
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By Tim Reid WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump has regularly praised tech billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency for its role in cutting the size of the federal workforce and halting thousands of government programs and contracts. In just three months, entire government agencies have been dismantled and hundreds of thousands of workers …
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