WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will travel early next week to Panama where he will participate in an annual Central American security conference, the Pentagon said on Friday. Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said Hegseth would hold bilateral meetings at the conference “that will drive ongoing efforts to strengthen our partnerships with Panama …
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By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Four private astronauts returned to Earth in a SpaceX capsule on Friday after roughly four days orbiting the planet in a novel polar trajectory, walking out of their spacecraft with little assistance to cap off the Elon Musk-led company’s sixth fully private space mission. Since launching Monday night from Florida, …
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By James Mackenzie, Nidal al-Mughrabi and Mahmoud Issa JERUSALEM/GAZA (Reuters) -Israeli troops were expanding their control of ground in northern Gaza, the military said on Friday, days after the government announced plans to seize large areas with an operation in the south. Soldiers carrying out the operation in Shejaia, a suburb east of Gaza City …
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By Jonathan Landay, Erin Banco and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump fired General Timothy Haugh as director of the National Security Agency, in a national security purge that sources said on Friday included more than a dozen staff at the White House national security council. NSA director Air Force General Haugh, who …
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By Samia Nakhoul BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Turkey wants no confrontation with Israel in Syria, but repeated Israeli strikes on military facilities there are eroding the new government’s ability to deter threats from enemies, including Islamic State, Turkey’s foreign minister told Reuters on Friday. In an interview on the sidelines of a NATO foreign ministers’ meeting in …
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By Will Dunham (Reuters) -The Sahara Desert is one of Earth’s most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans parts of 11 countries and covers an area comparable to China or the United States. But it has not always been so inhospitable. During a period from about 14,500 to …
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By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Before Nigerian filmmaker Roye Okupe’s daughter was born, he decided that he wanted to create a character that would be a positive role model for her and people all over the world with first the graphic novel and then with the animated television series, “Iyanu: Child of Wonder.” “’Iyanu’ …
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By Bo Erickson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate Republicans are working to pass a budget measure that they need to extend President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts — and potentially cut other taxes — while bypassing the objections of the chamber’s Democrats. Nonpartisan analysts said the budget could add trillions to the federal government’s $36.6 trillion …
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By Deborah Mary Sophia (Reuters) -U.S. chip companies, banks and oil majors fell sharply on Friday after China retaliated to Trump’s tariffs with steep duties, in an intensifying trade war between the world’s two largest economies that cast a shadow on global growth. China slapped additional duties of 34% on U.S. goods, set to go …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – A Kenyan court has ruled that Facebook’s parent company Meta can be sued in the East African country over its alleged role in promoting content that led to ethnic violence in neighbouring Ethiopia, a plaintiff in the case said. The landmark case, which stems from alleged hate speech on the platform during …
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