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By Trevor Hunnicutt and Julia Symmes Cobb WASHINGTON/BOGOTA (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s envoy Richard Grenell said on Friday he was headed back to the United States with six American citizens, a surprise development after he met with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas. Officials from the Trump administration had said earlier on Friday that …

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BOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombian President Gustavo Petro, less than a week after backing down from a decision to turn away U.S. military planes bringing back undocumented migrants, made a bold request to migrants: Come home right away and “build social wealth.” Petro, who was elected in 2022 as Colombia’s first leftist president, even offered loans that …

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By Simon Lewis, Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) -China’s presence around the Panama Canal is a national security concern that Panama’s government has to deal with, Mauricio Claver-Carone, the U.S. special envoy for Latin America, said on Friday, ahead of U.S. top diplomat Marco Rubio’s visit to the country. Rubio will depart on Saturday on his …

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OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada will respond immediately and forcefully if the United States goes ahead with a threat to impose tariffs, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday, warning Canadians that they could be facing tough times. President Donald Trump has set a Saturday deadline to slap a 25% tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico. …

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CAIRO (Reuters) -Iran will respond immediately and decisively if its nuclear sites are attacked which would lead to an “all-out war in the region,” Tehran’s foreign minister told Al Jazeera TV in an interview aired on Friday. Israel and the U.S. launching a military attack on Iranian nuclear facilities would be “one of the biggest …

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DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Syrian authorities have arrested a former senior security officer and cousin of ousted leader Bashar al-Assad seen by some as responsible for sparking the country’s 2011 uprising due to a crackdown on protests in the southern city of Daraa, state media said. Atef Najib, a brigadier general and former head of the Political …

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