WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States will begin enforcing a visitor registration law for Canadians who enter the U.S. via land borders, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing officials. (Reporting by Kanishka Singh and Ismail Shakil)
By Laila Bassam MASOUDIYEH, Lebanon (Reuters) – Fearing for their lives, Syrian men, women and children waded through a river to safety in Lebanon on Tuesday, among hundreds of people who have fled to the neighbouring country to escape sectarian killing targeting their Alawite community. A woman who made the crossing on Sunday said she’d …
By Parisa Hafezi (Reuters) -President Masoud Pezeshkian said Iran would not negotiate with the U.S. while being threatened, telling President Donald Trump to “do whatever the hell you want”, Iranian state media reported on Tuesday. “It is unacceptable for us that they (the U.S.) give orders and make threats. I won’t even negotiate with you. …
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GENEVA (Reuters) -Entire families including women and children were killed in Syria’s coastal region as part of a series of sectarian killings by rival groups, the U.N human rights office said on Tuesday. Pressure has been growing on Syria’s Islamist-led government to investigate after reports by a war monitor of the killing of hundreds of …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House said on Tuesday that it condemns North Korea’s recent ballistic missile launches. (Reporting by Jeff Mason; Writing by Trevor Hunnicutt)
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Federal Aviation Administration said on Tuesday it was extending prohibitions barring U.S. flights to the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince through September 8, citing risks from armed gangs to civil aviation. In November, the FAA temporarily halted all flights to Haiti but later allowed U.S. flights to resume to six …
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CAIRO (Reuters) -Israel said on Tuesday it had agreed to hold talks to demarcate its border with Lebanon, adding it would release five Lebanese held by the Israeli military in what it called a “gesture to the Lebanese president”. A statement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Israel had agreed with Lebanon, the U.S. …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s political newcomer, the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), filed a complaint on Monday with the constitutional court seeking to legally challenge the results of the national election, a spokesperson said. The leftist populist BSW, which was created last year, scored 4.97% in last month’s election, lacking just 13,400 votes to enter parliament …
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By Elizabeth Pineau and John Irish PARIS/QUEBEC (Reuters) – More than 30 army chiefs among Washington’s closest allies met in Paris on Tuesday without their U.S. counterparts, seeking to take on more responsibility over the Ukraine war given President Donald Trump’s unpredictability and rapprochement with Moscow. The closed-door gathering of 34 army chiefs, including NATO …
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BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil will eventually need to resume discussions on requiring financial technology companies to report transaction values to the tax revenue service, the agency’s head said on Tuesday. Speaking at a Senate hearing, Robinson Barreirinhas cited strong indications that lesser-known payment institutions are being used for money laundering. Barreirinhas said the tax revenue …
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