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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -U.S. assistance for managing and securing camps in northeastern Syria with Islamic State-linked prisoners “cannot last forever,” the acting U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Dorothy Shea, told the Security Council on Wednesday. “The United States has shouldered too much of this burden for too long. Ultimately, the camps …

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By Jennifer Rigby and Mariam Sunny (Reuters) – The United States’ pause on foreign aid contributions is having a serious impact on global health, hitting programmes fighting polio, HIV and other threats, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday. Tedros urged the U.S. to consider resuming aid funding until solutions can be …

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DUBAI (Reuters) -Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday Iran should further develop its military, including its missiles, after U.S. President Donald Trump made threats of force against Tehran if it refused to negotiate over its nuclear programme. Khamenei spoke a day after Iran’s U.N. ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani, condemned what he called “reckless …

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By Lucinda Elliott BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – At Argentina’s Ministry of Deregulation and State Transformation, two piles of laws to be streamlined or cut sit on a wooden desk near an Elon Musk biography and a figurine of libertarian President Javier Milei with his iconic chainsaw. This is the nerve center of the South American …

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By Saurabh Sharma LUCKNOW (Reuters) – More than 10 million devout Hindus seeking absolution from their sins took a dip in holy waters in northern India during a span of four hours on Wednesday, authorities said, as they braced for millions more to swarm the site of the Kumbh Mela. Authorities stepped up the numbers …

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By Hyunsu Yim SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean state media on Wednesday denounced U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal to take over Gaza and relocate Palestinians as bluster and accused Washington of robbery. The slim hopes of Palestinians for safety and peace are being crushed by the proposal, a commentary carried by the Korean Central News Agency …

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By Stephanie Kelly and Nathan Layne (Reuters) -The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation found thousands of new documents related to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy after President Donald Trump called for the release of classified intelligence and law enforcement files about the 1963 shooting. In a statement on Tuesday, the FBI said …

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By Jessica DiNapoli and Rich McKay (Reuters) – Nour Ismail, a cashier at the All-Star Deli & Grocery in Manhattan, says the handful of pennies tossed into the bodega’s tip jar by the end of the day is mostly a nuisance, rather than a welcome reward for good service. As a tip, pennies are nearly …

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