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BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Hungary’s parliament approved constitutional changes on Monday targeting LGBTQ+ people and what the government calls “foreign-funded political pressure networks” that undermine the country’s sovereignty. Nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, in power since 2010, faces elections in 2026 with the economy struggling and a new opposition party posing the strongest challenge yet to his …

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CAIRO (Reuters) – Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized control of a major camp for displaced people in North Darfur, the paramilitary group said on Sunday, after a four-day assault the government and aid groups have said left hundreds dead or wounded. The fighting has centred around the Zamzam camp, which, along with the nearby …

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(Corrects first paragraph to say it is Bolsonaro’s sixth surgery since stabbing, not fifth) (Reuters) -Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is recovering after undergoing surgery on Sunday, his sixth since being stabbed in the stomach while campaigning in 2018, his wife, Michelle, said in a social media post. “Surgery concluded with success,” she posted. “My …

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By Bhargav Acharya and Tannur Anders JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday announced former deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas as his special envoy to the United States, in an effort to try to rebuild a relationship that has soured badly under President Donald Trump. Since Trump’s return to the White House in …

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LIMA (Reuters) -Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, who enchanted readers with his intellectual rigor and lyrical prose for five decades and nearly became president of his country, died on Sunday aged 89. He died in the country’s capital Lima surrounded by his family and “at peace,” his son Alvaro Vargas Llosa, a well-known political commentator, …

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By Julia Harte (Reuters) – U.S. officials said in court filings on Sunday that they were not obligated to help a Maryland resident get out of prison in El Salvador after he was erroneously deported, despite a Supreme Court ruling directing the government to “facilitate” his return to the United States. Attorneys for the administration …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department said on Saturday a Maryland resident deported to El Salvador is “alive and secure” in a terrorism confinement center there, after a U.S. Judge demanded updates on the Trump administration’s efforts to secure his return. A State Department court filing gave the update on Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who …

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