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Central America could also make pact with US on deportees, Mexico president says

27 Jan 2025 27 Jan 2025

By Kylie Madry MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico has received non-Mexican migrants from the United States in the past week, and Central American nations could also reach similar agreements with the U.S. to accept deportees from other countries, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Monday. The leftist leader’s comments are a reversal from her administration’s previous …

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Colombia avoids trade war with US as business community, citizens call for cooler heads

27 Jan 2025 27 Jan 2025

By Oliver Griffin, Luis Jaime Acosta and Nandita Bose BOGOTA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro averted an economic disaster at the 11th hour after diplomats from his government and the U.S. reached a deal on deportation flights, but the Colombian business community on Monday called for cooler heads to prevail as Colombians bemoaned canceled U.S. …

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EIA sees higher U.S. wholesale power prices in 2025

27 Jan 2025 27 Jan 2025

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Energy Information Administration has forecast higher wholesale power prices for 2025 across the country’s regional markets, except Texas and the Northwest. Wholesale power prices could average $40 per megawatt hour (MWh) this year, rising 7% over 2024, the EIA said in a report on Monday. It forecast the average …

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Views of Lula turn negative, Brazilians wary on taxes, economy

27 Jan 2025 27 Jan 2025

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Support for Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has dipped sharply, a poll showed on Monday, with disapproval surpassing approval for the first time in two years, after recent concerns about more taxation and turmoil in financial markets. The Genial/Quaest poll showed that 47% of those surveyed approved of Lula’s performance …

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Russia issues school textbook saying it was ‘forced’ to march into Ukraine

27 Jan 2025 27 Jan 2025

By Andrew Osborn (Reuters) – A new school textbook that likens Russia’s war in Ukraine to the Soviet struggle against the Nazis and says Russia was “forced” to send troops into Ukraine was presented in Moscow on Monday. President Vladimir Putin casts the war, which Moscow officially calls a “Special Military Operation”, as a difficult …

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Factbox-How Gazans returning north are checked for weapons

27 Jan 2025 27 Jan 2025

CAIRO (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians returning to their homes in northern Gaza have passed through checkpoints in a central zone of the enclave where scanners check for concealed weapons being taken in cars and vehicles. Here is how the system works, according to witnesses who have passed through: – The checks …

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Exclusive-Russian oil refining rises as US sanctions target crude exports – sources

27 Jan 2025 27 Jan 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian refineries are processing more crude oil in the hope of boosting fuel exports after new U.S. sanctions on Russian tankers and traders made exports of unprocessed crude more difficult, two industry sources said and data showed. Russia has been trying to adapt to Western sanctions imposed in response to the invasion …

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Swedish authorities board ship seized over Baltic Sea cable breach

27 Jan 2025 27 Jan 2025

By Johan Ahlander and Anna Ringstrom STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Swedish authorities boarded a Maltese-flagged ship seized in connection with the latest breach of cables running along the bottom of the Baltic Sea to begin an investigation into the matter, the country’s security police said on Monday. “We can confirm that persons from Swedish authorities have been …

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Brazil’s Lula cleared to resume ‘normal routine’ after surgeries

27 Jan 2025 27 Jan 2025

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been fully cleared to resume his “normal routine” after undergoing two emergency surgeries last month to treat and prevent bleeding in his head, his doctors said on Monday. Lula, 79, underwent a CT scan on Monday that showed his health continues to improve, …

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EU ministers approve suspending visa-free travel for Georgian diplomats

27 Jan 2025 27 Jan 2025

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union foreign ministers on Monday approved the suspension of visa-free travel for Georgian officials holding diplomatic passports, two diplomats told Reuters. The move comes in response to a violent crackdown in Georgia on pro-EU protests. Ministers had asked the European Commission, the bloc’s executive arm, to make a proposal on the …

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