By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs will cut 20% of its staff as it faces a shortfall of $58 million, U.N. aid chief Tom Fletcher has told staff after OCHA’s largest donor – the United States – cut funding. “OCHA currently has a workforce …
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By James Pomfret, Greg Torode and Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) – An Australian judge became the latest foreigner to resign from Hong Kong’s highest court before the end of his term on Friday as a security crackdown fans international criticism of a perceived erosion of the rule of law in the financial hub. Robert …
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By James Pomfret, Jessie Pang and Greg Torode HONG KONG (Reuters) -Five senior members of Hong Kong’s Democratic Party, the city’s biggest and last remaining major opposition party, say that Chinese officials or middlemen have warned the party to disband or face serious consequences, including possible arrests. The Democratic Party, which was founded three years …
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the main rival of Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan, appeared before a court on Friday for the first time since his high-profile arrest last month, over earlier and separate accusations of insulting a prosecutor. The hearing was held inside a courthouse-prison complex in Istanbul’s Silivri district where Imamoglu is …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s top trade envoy said on Friday his U.S. counterpart signaled a willingness to reach a deal over tariffs and that Seoul will negotiate in the best interests of the country despite a looming election, local broadcaster KBS reported. Cheong In-kyo, minister for trade, on his arrival from Washington, D.C. where …
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By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) – Sweeping tariffs on imports imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump and countermeasures could have a “catastrophic” impact on developing countries, hitting even harder than foreign aid cuts, the director of the United Nations trade agency said on Friday. Global trade could shrink by 3-7% and global gross domestic …
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By Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A U.S. citizen shot and killed on Wednesday a top state Mexican police officer in an elite unit known as “the Gringo Hunters,” which dedicates itself to arresting U.S. suspects who are fugitives in Mexico. Authorities say the unit was trying to arrest a suspect in the northern …
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DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has extended a deadline for a fact-finding committee to produce its report on the killings of Alawites on Syria’s coast last month, the deadliest episode of sectarian violence since Sunni Islamist rebels seized power. Hundreds of Alawites were killed in Syria’s western coastal region in early March in …
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(Reuters) -Venezuela’s national assembly on Thursday passed a decree proposed by President Nicolas Maduro’s government declaring a state of economic emergency in response to U.S. sanctions and tariffs. In March, the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump began suspending authorizations for oil companies operating with Venezuela’s state-owned PDVSA and imposed secondary tariffs on crude oil …
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By Timothy Gardner and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration imposed sanctions on Iranian oil trading networks on Thursday, including on a China-based crude oil storage terminal linked via a pipeline to an independent refinery, just days before direct talks between the U.S. and Iran. The sanctions came after Secretary of State Marco …
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