(Reuters) – Russia said on Friday it was sending a new ambassador to Washington, the latest sign of a thaw between the two countries as they try to mend their damaged relations and seek an end to the war in Ukraine. The Russian Foreign Ministry said the U.S. side had given the green light for …
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By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) – U.S. aid cuts are having an extreme and immediate impact on thousands of children in Haiti as violence spirals and more young people are recruited by armed gangs, the U.N. children’s agency warned on Friday. More than 1 million Haitians, nearly 10% of the population, have been uprooted …
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By Mushtaq Ali PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed six worshippers during Friday prayers at an Islamic seminary in northwestern Pakistan known as a historic training ground for the Afghan Taliban, police and a government spokesman said. The head of the religious school was among those killed, said provincial government spokesman Muhammad Ali …
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By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) – U.S. aid cuts have forced the U.N. children’s agency UNICEF to suspend or scale back many programmes in Lebanon, with more than half of children under the age of two experiencing severe food poverty in the country’s east, a UNICEF official said on Friday. “We have been forced …
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By Mohammed and Torokman KOBAR, West Bank (Reuters) – Nael Barghouti, the longest serving Palestinian inmate in an Israeli prison, had no chance to see his wife when he was freed on Thursday so he sent her a second wedding ring with their names engraved on it. Jailed for life in 1978 for killing an …
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By Sarupya Ganguly BENGALURU (Reuters) – Affordability in the U.S. housing market will improve modestly in the coming year, according to property market experts polled by Reuters, based on expectations for a few more interest rate cuts, not an increase in homes available to purchase. Home prices are set to keep rising modestly this year …
By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) – The United States has not moved to quit the Americas branch of the World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), despite its wider pullback from global health. President Donald Trump started the 12-month withdrawal process for the U.S. to leave the WHO on his first day in …
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By Anna Hirtenstein and Alexander Marrow LONDON (Reuters) – One morning in October 2024, three men entered the Moscow headquarters of Glavprodukt, the largest maker of canned food in Russia. One announced himself as the new director general and said he would now be making the decisions. The men had been sent by Rosimushchestvo, Russia’s …
By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO (Reuters) -Ontario’s Progressive Conservative Party swept to victory and clinched a rare third consecutive majority, according to a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation projection, following a campaign dominated by U.S. President Donald Trump. PC Party leader Doug Ford called an election more than a year early, arguing he needed a stronger mandate …
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By Jeff Mason and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday there were “pretty good talks going on” regarding Gaza, when asked about the future of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas militants, but he offered little detail at a White House press conference. A three-phase ceasefire in Gaza went …
