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(Reuters) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday he will join an emergency meeting of the Arab League in Cairo next week to discuss the reconstruction of Gaza, as Arab states weigh a post-war plan for the Palestinian enclave to counter U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal. Arab countries have rejected Trump’s idea that the …

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By Ece Toksabay ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party wants immediate steps towards democratisation from President Tayyip Erdogan’s government after the peace call by the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party’s (PKK), a senior party lawmaker said on Friday. Thursday’s call from Abdullah Ocalan for the PKK to disarm and disband could …

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By Daphne Psaledakis and Patricia Zengerle (Reuters) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday that he was deeply concerned about severe cuts in U.S. foreign assistance, in a strong rebuke of the move that he said would be “especially devastating” for the world’s vulnerable people. U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration this week said …

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BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has chosen the head of his Workers Party, Gleisi Hoffmann, to serve as institutional relations minister, the government said in a statement on Friday. Hoffmann, a federal lawmaker and staunch advocate of state-driven economic stimulus, will assume the key role of leading negotiations between the …

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By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – Silicon Valley Bank’s former parent may pursue a lawsuit to recover $1.93 billion of deposits that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp seized following the bank’s March 2023 collapse, a federal judge ruled. In a decision on Thursday, U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman in San Jose, California said the former …

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By Sam Tabahriti LONDON (Reuters) – The British government called an urgent meeting with the BBC on Friday over the making of a documentary about children’s lives in Gaza that was narrated by the 13-year-old son of a deputy minister in the Palestinian enclave’s Hamas government. The BBC said on Thursday there had been “serious …

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