WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House was unaware of a meeting between U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and Jonathan Pollard, the former U.S. Navy analyst who spent three decades in prison for spying for Israel, spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said on Thursday. The New York Times reported on Thursday that Huckabee met Pollard in July at …
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(Edits headline) BEIRUT (Reuters) -The Israeli military stepped up airstrikes in south Lebanon on Wednesday, killing at least one person as it pressed a campaign of near-daily attacks which it says is designed to block a military revival by Iran-backed Hezbollah in the border area. Israel has accused Hezbollah of trying to rearm since a …
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By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran has asked Saudi Arabia to persuade the U.S. to revive stalled nuclear talks, underlining Tehran’s anxiety over a possible repeat of Israeli airstrikes and its deepening economic woes, two regional sources with knowledge of the matter said. A day before Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s visit to the …
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By Deena Beasley and Julie Steenhuysen (Reuters) -Studies from Novo Nordisk due early next month will give the strongest indication yet of whether blockbuster GLP-1 drugs – a class being used by millions for diabetes and weight loss – can slow progress of Alzheimer’s disease. Two trials, described by Novo as a “lottery ticket,” are …
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BEIRUT (Reuters) -The Lebanese army on Thursday detained Noah Zaitar, a Lebanese national wanted over alleged drug trafficking, two years after he was sanctioned by the United States over suspected links to narcotics rings in Syria. Three Lebanese security sources told Reuters that troops arrested Zaitar earlier on Thursday, after years of arrest warrants they …
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(Reuters) -Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Israeli troops deployed in southern Syria, drawing strong condemnation from the government in Damascus, which denounced the trip as a violation of sovereignty. Israel expanded its military presence in southern Syria after the ousting of Bashar al-Assad last December, seizing positions east of a U.N.-patrolled buffer zone that …
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By Marianna Parraga and Dave Sherwood HAVANA (Reuters) -Cuba’s imports of crude and fuel in the first 10 months of the year fell more than a third compared with the same period of 2024 as key allies Mexico and Venezuela slashed supplies, according to shipping data and documents seen by Reuters, preventing the Caribbean country …
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By Kate Abnett, Renju Jose and Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) -Turkey will host next year’s UN climate summit while Australia will lead the conference’s negotiations among governments, under a compromise deal taking shape in talks in Brazil, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Thursday. The annual COP conferences are the world’s main forum for …
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By Lisandra Paraguassu and Kate Abnett BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -Brazil failed to land an early COP30 climate deal on Wednesday, though President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva remained upbeat about the prospects of progress in the last two days of the summit despite differences between nations on key issues. The Brazilian hosts of the two-week …
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican authorities on Wednesday announced the arrest of an alleged mastermind in the assassination of a popular opposition mayor, a vocal critic of the government’s security policies whose murder has shocked the country and sparked mass protests. Carlos Manzo, the mayor of Uruapan in the major avocado-producing state of Michoacan, was shot …
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