OTTAWA (Reuters) -The progress Canada has made on tightening security along the border with the United States and combating drug smuggling should satisfy the Trump administration, Public Safety Minister David McGuinty said on Thursday. At the same time he spoke, President Donald Trump said his proposed tariffs on Mexico and Canada would go into effect …
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By Nivedita Balu TORONTO (Reuters) – Canadian lender TD Bank appointed Guidepost Solutions as the compliance monitor for its anti-money laundering program after U.S. regulators hit the lender with $3 billion in penalties last year. Guidepost Solutions will monitor TD’s business in the United States as part of a multi-year program to fix TD’s anti-money …
GENEVA (Reuters) -The U.N. human rights chief warned of the risk of a further escalation of the war in Sudan on Thursday and said that there was a growing risk of deaths from starvation on a wide scale. Volker Turk’s warning came a day after the U.N. World Food Programme has temporarily stopped distributing food …
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By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) – The 75-year-old militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has spent a quarter of a century in jail after leading his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to take up arms against the Turkish state to fight for a Kurdish homeland. Now he is calling for peace. On Thursday, Ocalan, from his cell in …
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By Vladimir Soldatkin and Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin on Thursday warned “Western elites” against trying to sabotage a potential rapprochement between Russia and the United States, saying Moscow would use its diplomats and intelligence services to thwart such efforts. Addressing Russia’s FSB security service, the successor to the Soviet-era KGB and …
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) – The jailed founder of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, appealed on Thursday to his militant group to disarm and to dissolve itself. His call, if heeded by the PKK fighters, opens the door to ending a conflict that has ravaged southeastern Turkey for four decades and will also have significant …
By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Before he was hospitalized for double pneumonia, Pope Francis was battling firm resistance from some of his own cardinals about how to plug a widening gap in the Vatican’s finances. Three days before his hospitalization, Francis ordered the creation of a new high-level commission to encourage donations to …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – The United States on Thursday deported a Russian man wanted by Moscow on charges of armed robbery, Russian authorities said, amid intensifying diplomacy between the two sides. In a statement published on Telegram, Russia’s prosecutor general said that Dmitry Koshelev had been deported from the U.S. and would arrive in Moscow via …
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) – The jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdish militant group PKK called on Thursday for the group to lay down its arms and dissolve itself, in a letter read by Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party. “As in the case with any modern community and party whose existence has not been abolished by force, would …
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By Anastasiia Malenko KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s top commander said on Thursday he had visited brigades defending the Novopavlivka front in the eastern Donetsk region where Russia has stepped up its assaults. “The enemy is conducting intense offensive actions in this area, trying to break through the defences of our troops and capture three settlements,” …
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