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By Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA/CARACAS (Reuters) -Brazil’s top foreign policy adviser on Tuesday slammed Venezuela’s arrest warrant for opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez as “very concerning” and said there was a clear “authoritarian escalation” in the country. Other countries around the Americas, including the United States, Argentina and Peru, also condemned the move. The Venezuelan attorney general’s …

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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Danish police on Wednesday apprehended activist Greta Thunberg at a Copenhagen protest against the war in Gaza, a spokesperson for the student group organising the demonstration said. Six people were detained at the scene at the Copenhagen University after some 20 people had blocked the entrance to a building and three entered, a …

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(Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday that he had asked Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to step up advocacy among Ukraine’s Western partners to allow strikes on military targets deep inside Russia. Zelenskiy urged Trudeau to lobby allies to grant “Ukraine permission and the necessary means to strike military targets on the territory of …

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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Patience is running out among United Nations Security Council members and the 15-member body will likely consider taking action if a ceasefire cannot soon be brokered between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Slovenia’s U.N. envoy – council president for September – said on Tuesday. …

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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico’s Supreme Court judges voted to suspend the institution’s activities prior to a congressional debate on a controversial judicial reform, it said in a statement on Tuesday. By a majority of eight votes to three, the judges of the Supreme Court decided to join a work stoppage that has seen thousands of …

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By Kirsty Needham (Reuters) – Tonga’s Prime Minister Siaosi Sovaleni underscored the role of police to provide “freedom from fear” in democracies in a speech to Pacific Islands police chiefs on Tuesday, noting the rising global focus on the region by major powers. A top U.S. counter-narcotics official will travel on Wednesday to Tonga, where …

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By Ari Rabinovitch and James Mackenzie JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday rejected calls to soften his demand to keep troops in the southern Gazan border area as the price for a ceasefire deal, saying it was vital for Israel to control a key lifeline for Hamas. The issue of the so-called …

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By Jeff Mason and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden said on Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not doing enough to secure a deal for the release of hostages held in Gaza by Hamas and the U.S. was close to presenting a final proposal to negotiators working on a hostage and …

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By Matt Spetalnick and Jasper Ward WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States has seized a plane used by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and flown it from the Dominican Republic to Florida after determining that its purchase violated U.S. sanctions, the U.S. Justice Department said on Monday. The seizure of the aircraft came amid continuing pressure on …

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