BOGOTA (Reuters) -The Colombian government will suspend a ceasefire with a faction of what was once the armed Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla group, it said on Thursday, though it said the decision did not imply the end of peace talks with the group. The ceasefire between the government and the FARC-EP group …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Thursday said he was in no hurry to launch an attack on Iran over its nuclear program, a day ahead of U.S.-Iran talks in Rome. Asked about a New York Times report that said he had waved off an Israeli attack on Iran, Trump said: “I wouldn’t say …
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By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A mineral called siderite found abundantly in rock drilled by a NASA rover on the surface of Mars is providing fresh evidence of the planet’s warmer and wetter ancient past when it boasted substantial bodies of water and potentially harbored life. The Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars in 2012 …
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By Scott DiSavino (Reuters) – U.S. energy firms this week added oil and natural gas rigs for the first time in four weeks, energy services firm Baker Hughes said in its closely followed report on Thursday. The oil and gas rig count, an early indicator of future output, rose by two to 585 in the …
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By Brad Brooks (Reuters) – Harvard scientist Dr. Donald Ingber, who works where medicine and engineering meet, saw federal funding for some of his projects frozen this week as his university clashed with the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump. While Trump and his advisers portray the freezes as a temporary measure employed to force …
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By James Mackenzie and Nidal al-Mughrabi JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli troops will remain in the buffer zones they have created in Gaza even after any settlement to end the war, Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Wednesday, as efforts to revive a ceasefire agreement faltered. Since resuming military operations last month, Israeli forces have carved out …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Thursday that China was a very important market for Nvidia after the U.S. imposed a ban on sales of its H20 artificial intelligence chips to the country. “We hope to continue to cooperate with China,” Huang said in a meeting with Ren Hongbin, head of the …
DUBAI (Reuters) -Saudi Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman arrived in Tehran on Thursday for meetings with officials in a visit ahead of weekend talks between Iran and the United States over the Iranian nuclear programme. The defence minister delivered a message from Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei …
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By Guy Faulconbridge and Parisa Hafezi MOSCOW/DUBAI (Reuters) -Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei sent his foreign minister to Moscow on Thursday with a letter for President Vladimir Putin to brief the Kremlin about nuclear negotiations with the U.S., which has threatened to bomb the Islamic Republic. U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened Iran with …
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WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland has banned eight Georgian officials from entering the country due to their alleged role in violence against anti-government protesters in the South Caucasus nation, the Polish Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. Protests erupted in Georgia in November, when the ruling Georgian Dream party said it was suspending European Union accession talks …
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