By Nandita Bose, Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House said on Monday it has noticed that Mexico is “serious” about President Donald Trump’s executive order on tariffs, but Canada has “misunderstood” it to be a trade war between the neighboring countries. Trump on Saturday ordered sweeping tariffs on goods from Mexico, Canada and China, …
KYIV (Reuters) -The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission has recorded an “alarming rise” in reported executions of Ukrainian soldiers captured by the Russian armed forces during the war in recent months, it said on Monday. The mission in Ukraine said it had received reports of 79 executions in 24 separate incidents since the end of …
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By David Shepardson and Jonathan Allen WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Officials have positively identified 55 of the 67 people killed in Wednesday’s midair collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and a military helicopter over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. “It’s my belief that we’re going to recover everyone,” Fire Chief John Donnelly said on Sunday …
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(Reuters) – Samsung Electronics Chairman Jay Y. Lee was found not guilty of accounting fraud and stock manipulation by a Seoul appeals court on Monday, in a ruling that could remove long-running legal risks that Lee has faced from criminal cases. For nearly a decade, Lee, the leader of South Korea’s biggest conglomerate, has been …
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By Aleksandar Vasovic and Edward McAllister CETINJE, Montenegro (Reuters) – Vesna Pejovic vowed to reduce gun violence in Montenegro after her daughter and two grandsons were killed in a mass shooting in the town of Cetinje in 2022. Then came news on Jan. 1 that drained what optimism she had left. A brawl in a …
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By Idrees Ali and Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday, without citing evidence, that “certain classes of people” in South Africa were being treated “very badly” and that he would cut off funding for the country until the matter is investigated. “South Africa is confiscating land, and treating certain classes …
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By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Chappell Roan won the 2025 best new artist Grammy award on Sunday, beating out fellow nominees including popular “Please Please Please” singer Sabrina Carpenter. Roan, emotional after receiving her first Grammy, took the stage sporting her signature drag-inspired makeup and a large yellow cone hat. “I told myself …
RAMALLAH/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -The Israeli military blew up buildings in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Sunday in an operation that the Palestinian state news agency said leveled around 20 buildings. Footage capturing the demolitions showed a series of simultaneous explosions in the densely populated camp. Thick clouds of smoke rose above …
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By Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) – An aide to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday a U.S. call for Ukraine to hold an election after agreeing a ceasefire with Russia looked like a “failed plan” if that is all it consists of, though more details were needed. President Donald Trump’s top Ukraine official Keith Kellogg …
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(Reuters) – Canada hopes hefty tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump will not take effect on Tuesday but the Canadian public expects the government to stand firm in a trade dispute with Washington, the Canadian ambassador told ABC News on Sunday. Canada on Saturday quickly announced tariffs on hundreds of billions in U.S. exports, …
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