By Pilar Olivares and Manuela Andreoni DEUS E PAI, Brazil (Reuters) – Deep in the Amazon jungle, a pregnant woman needs help. Her baby is about to come, and a drought has parched the rivers that connect her community to the nearest hospital. Enter Tabita dos Santos Moraes, one of the hundreds of traditional midwives …
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By Mahmoud Issa GAZA (Reuters) – Khader Junaid clambered onto a donkey cart with his family and their belongings and set off through Gaza’s rubble, embarking on all-too-familiar escape to safety following the resumption of heavy Israeli airstrikes. Repeated displacement has become a way of life for Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians since a Hamas attack …
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DOHA (Reuters) – The Taliban on Thursday freed an American citizen who had been detained in Afghanistan for more than two years, following talks between U.S. hostage envoy Adam Boehler and Taliban officials in Kabul, a source briefed on the release told Reuters. George Glezmann, who was detained in 2022 while visiting Kabul as a …
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(This March 17 story has been refiled to change ‘helped’ to ‘held’ in paragraph 22) (Reuters) – The following candidates will stand for election to replace Thomas Bach as the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) at the IOC session which will be held from March 18-21 in Greece: Kirsty Coventry (Age: 41; Nationality: …
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By Gilles Guillaume PARIS (Reuters) – A bid by French munitions maker Europlasma for a former Renault foundry is being closely watched by struggling auto suppliers, eager to tap a surge in defence spending as demand from traditional car making shrinks. Europlasma, a waste treatment firm diversifying into military products, says it will retool the …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. current account deficit contracted in the fourth quarter, but the improvement could be temporary as goods imports surged to a record high in January, driven by businesses preemptively buying foreign merchandise to avoid tariffs. The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis said on Thursday the current account deficit, which measures the …
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By Erin Banco NEW YORK (Reuters) – Ukrainian soldiers in Kursk have lost ground in recent days but are not encircled by Russian forces, contrary to recent comments by U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to three U.S. and European officials familiar with their governments’ intelligence assessments. U.S. intelligence agencies, including …
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By Jan Strupczewski BRUSSELS (Reuters) – When do state investments in arms factories, or the wages of tank crews and pilots not count as defence spending? Answer: When the EU rules say they don’t. Until a few days ago that was the case, with the bloc sticking to a narrow definition of spending on defence …
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OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada said on Wednesday that China had executed four Canadian citizens on drugs smuggling charges earlier this year, and strongly condemned Beijing’s use of the death penalty. Foreign Minister Melanie Joly told reporters that all four had been dual citizens and said Ottawa would ask for leniency for other Canadians facing the same …
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By Francesco Guarascio HANOI (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will visit Vietnam next week, bringing with him a business delegation including executives from planemaker Embraer and food giant JBS that are both in talks for possible deals in the Southeast Asian country, sources said. Lula’s second visit to Vietnam as president …
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