MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Friday she will wait with a cool head for a decision from the United States ahead of a Saturday deadline set by U.S. President Donald Trump to impose 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports. “We will always defend the dignity of our people, respect for …
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By Ricardo Brito BRASÍLIA (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is bracing for another two years of struggle with the nation’s Congress, as lawmakers convene on Saturday to potentially elect leaders to both the House and Senate who have promised to continue exerting tight control of an overstretched federal budget. Legislators are …
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(Reuters) – Traders on Friday kept bets that the Federal Reserve will wait until June to resume interest rate cuts, after government data showed inflation by the U.S. central bank’s targeted measure ticked up to 2.6% in December, as economists had expected. After the inflation report, released at the same time as hawkish monetary …
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(Reuters) – David Lebryk, the top-ranking career U.S. Treasury Department official, will leave following a clash with allies of billionaire and Trump adviser Elon Musk over payment system access, the Washington Post reported on Friday. The report, citing three people with knowledge of the matter, said Lebryk and Musk’s surrogates clashed over access to a …
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(Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to Panama, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and the Dominican Republic from Feb. 1-6, the State Department said in a statement on Friday. His trip will promote regional cooperation on core shared interests such as stopping illegal and large-scale migration, fighting transnational criminal organizations and …
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By Cassandra Garrison MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – If U.S. President Donald Trump follows through on his pledge to slap 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico it could usher in a volatile new chapter in the longstanding trade relationship with the impacts hitting consumers. Mexico is the United States’ largest trading partner, representing over 15% of …
By Ali Kucukgocmen and Ece Toksabay ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a leading opposition figure and potential challenger to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, appeared in court on Friday to deny charges that he had attempted to influence the judiciary. The case against Imamoglu is the latest in a series of legal challenges faced …
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By Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) – Russian forces are slowly tightening the noose around the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, a key logistical hub whose main supply lines are under threat nearly three years after Moscow invaded its neighbour. While Ukraine is stubbornly defending the city, its encirclement or fall could put Russia in a …
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(Reuters) – The U.S. military said it killed a senior operative of an Al-Qaeda-affiliated militant group in an airstrike in northwest Syria on Thursday. The airstrike, part of an ongoing effort to disrupt and degrade militant groups in the region, resulted in the death of Muhammad Salah al-Za’bir of the Hurras al-Din group, the U.S. …
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By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Thursday restored a U.S. agency rule restricting lobster and Jonah crab fishing off the Massachusetts coast to protect endangered whales, rejecting a claim that the agency did not deserve deference under a recent landmark Supreme Court case. In a 3-0 decision, the 1st U.S. Circuit …
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