By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Dec 15 (Reuters) – A JetBlue passenger jet bound for New York took evasive action on Friday to avoid a mid-air collision with a U.S. Air Force tanker plane near Venezuela, a pilot said in an air traffic control recording. JetBlue Flight 1112 had departed the Caribbean nation of Curacao and …
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Dec 15 (Reuters) – The United States and Mexico signed a new agreement aimed at addressing the ongoing Tijuana River sewage crisis, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Monday in a statement. The decades-long issue of Mexican sewage flowing into the Tijuana River and across the U.S. border before emptying into the Pacific Ocean near …
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By Nate Raymond BOSTON, Dec 15 (Reuters) – Jurors found Brian Walshe guilty of murdering his wife on Monday, nearly three years after she vanished on New Year’s Day in a case that grabbed headlines when prosecutors said he searched online for “dismemberment and best ways to dispose of a body.” Jurors in Dedham, Massachusetts, …
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TEGUCIGALPA, Dec 15 (Reuters) – The head of Honduras’ National Electoral Council, Ana Paola Hall, said on Monday that protests in the capital Tegucigalpa have delayed the start of a special recount of some of the ballots from the contested November 30 presidential election. Hundreds of supporters of the ruling leftist party LIBRE protested on …
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Dec 15 (Reuters) – Trinidad and Tobago granted approval on Monday for United States military aircraft to transit its airports in the coming weeks, amid rising tensions between the U.S. and Venezuela. The Caribbean country’s foreign ministry said in a statement it was committed to cooperating with the U.S. on regional security, adding that the …
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BRUSSELS/LONDON/STOCKHOLM, Dec 15 (Reuters) – The European Commission is expected on Tuesday to reverse the EU’s effective ban on sales of new combustion-engine cars from 2035, bowing to intense pressure from Germany, Italy and European automakers struggling against Chinese and U.S. rivals. The move, the details of which are still being hashed out by EU …
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Dec 15 (Reuters) – The death toll in Bolivia from floods triggered by an overflowing river in the eastern Santa Cruz region has climbed to 20 and is expected to rise as rescue teams reach previously inaccessible areas, Deputy Civil Defense Minister Alfredo Troche said on Monday. Authorities said at least two dozen people remain …
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By Christine Chen, Scott Murdoch and Renju Jose SYDNEY, Dec 15 (Reuters) – Australia vowed stricter gun laws on Monday as it began mourning victims of its worst mass shooting in almost 30 years, in which police accused a father and son of killing 15 people at a Jewish celebration at Sydney’s famed Bondi Beach. …
By Ed White WAWANESA, Manitoba, Dec 15 (Reuters) – When farmer Simon Ellis first drove his combine into this year’s crop, he expected “catastrophic failure,” after a season of flooding followed by a long drought. But instead of shriveled kernels, plump seeds of wheat, oats and soybeans poured into his combine. Ellis, 38, a fourth-generation farmer …
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By Christine Chen and Cordelia Hsu SYDNEY, Dec 15 (Reuters) – Donations for a Sydney man who wrestled a gun from one of the alleged attackers during a mass shooting at Bondi Beach have surged past A$1.1 million ($744,000), as he recovers in hospital after surgery for bullet wounds. Forty-three-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim …
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