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By Allison Lampert (Reuters) -U.S. safety investigators said on Thursday they are probing the maintenance history of a UPS cargo plane that was in Texas for repairs weeks before crashing in flames in Louisville, Kentucky, on Tuesday, killing at least 13 people. The National Transportation Safety Board has said a large “plume of fire” erupted …

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By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration was on the defensive for much of the arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court over his sweeping tariffs. A major reason for that, according to legal experts, was the surprisingly harsh questioning by Justice Neil Gorsuch, a conservative who sometimes defies expectations. In one notable exchange …

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By Valerie Volcovici and Richard Valdmanis (Reuters) -As leaders gather for the U.N. climate summit in Brazil this week – three decades after the world’s first annual climate conference – the data charting progress in the fight against global warming tells a sobering story. Despite years of negotiations, pledges, and summits, greenhouse gas emissions have …

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BEIRUT (Reuters) -The Israeli military carried out heavy airstrikes on southern Lebanon on Thursday after issuing evacuation orders for several locations, saying Lebanese armed group Hezbollah was trying to rebuild its military capabilities there.  The orders and strikes came despite a ceasefire deal agreed a year ago that was meant to end more than a …

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By Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Timour Azhari AMMAN/DAMASCUS (Reuters) -The United States is preparing to establish a military presence at an airbase in Damascus to help enable a security pact that Washington is brokering between Syria and Israel, six sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. The U.S. plans for the presence in the Syrian capital, …

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By Alessandro Parodi PARIS (Reuters) -France’s Louvre Museum began a security audit a decade ago but the recommended upgrades will not be completed until 2032, the state auditor said in a report on Thursday compiled before a spectacular heist there last month. The daylight robbery, in which four robbers made off with jewels worth $102 …

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By Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -The wife of a mayor brazenly assassinated during Day of the Dead celebrations in the violence-ridden Mexican state of Michoacan assumed her husband’s job on Wednesday, vowing to carry on her husband’s crusade against organized crime. Grecia Quiroz was sworn in to replace her husband, Carlos Manzo, as mayor …

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