By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -A Gaza family’s open admission this week that they killed an officer from the Hamas-run police force after they said a relative was shot dead has added to signs of popular dissent against the militant group after 18 months of war with Israel. It drew a warning from the Hamas-run …
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By Ed White and Leah Douglas WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) – For Jews in Canada, much like their U.S. counterparts, Manischewitz kosher wine has become a staple of Passover and other religious celebrations. But now many are struggling to find the New York state-made drink for the wine-heavy spring holiday as Canadian government retailers and wholesale …
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By Napat Wesshasartar and Thomas Suen BANGKOK (Reuters) – Two rescue dogs in Thailand switched roles briefly on Wednesday to provide emotional support following five days spent sniffing for signs of life in a mountain of rubble left after a tower crumbled in last week’s earthquake. To soothe the families of some of the 72 …
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By Will Dunham (Reuters) -American actor Val Kilmer, who starred in films such as “Top Gun,” “The Doors”, “Tombstone” and “Batman Forever” while earning a reputation as a Hollywood bad boy for his intensity and temperament, has died at age 65. The cause of death was pneumonia, the New York Times reported, citing his daughter …
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By Virginia Furness LONDON (Reuters) – A well-known adviser to the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) is pushing back against a plan by President Donald Trump to use it to boost domestic investment in mineral production. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT: DFC is a key source of development finance globally and has a portfolio of more …
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By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) – More than a third of emerging market companies are likely to be “meaningfully” impacted by U.S. trade tariffs when they hit, analysts at investment bank JPMorgan have estimated. Including the likelihood that Chinese and Mexican firms are hit hard, they estimated that 36% of the more than 750 companies …
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By Howard Schneider CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) – At the end of last year, when Americans were still looking ahead to Donald Trump’s second turn as president, most seemed right with the U.S. economy. But by late February, Richmond Federal Reserve Bank President Tom Barkin could sense the mood shifting. Government contractors in Northern Virginia …
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(Reuters) -Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister Ho Duc Phoc and executives from companies including Vietnam Airlines JSC and Vietjet Aviation JSC will visit the United States this weekend as U.S. tariffs loom, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday. The two airline officials are expected to meet those from Boeing and some U.S. banks, the report said, citing …
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By Alvaro Murillo SAN JOSE (Reuters) -Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias said on Tuesday that the U.S. had revoked his visa to enter the country, weeks after he criticized U.S. President Donald Trump on social media saying he was behaving like “a Roman emperor.” Arias, 84, was president between 1986 …
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PARIS (Reuters) – Europe will respond to the likely implementation of tariffs by U.S. President Donald Trump in a proportionate manner but will not escalate tensions under any circumstances, French industry minister Marc Ferracci said on Wednesday. “Europe has always been on the side of negotiation and calming things down, because trade wars, you know, …
