By Luciana Magalhaes SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian officials demanded that U.S. agents remove handcuffs from a group of deportees who were flown to the South American country on Friday, with a prominent minister in President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s government calling the practice “blatant disrespect” for the rights of his fellow citizens. Federal …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. may place a “very big bounty” on the top leaders of the Taliban, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Saturday, adding he was hearing that the Taliban held more American hostages than previously reported. “Just hearing the Taliban is holding more American hostages than has been reported,” …
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By Phil Stewart and Diego Oré WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico has refused a request from President Donald Trump’s administration to allow a U.S. military aircraft deporting migrants to land in the country, a U.S. official and a Mexican official told Reuters. U.S. military aircraft carried out two similar flights, each with about 80 migrants, to …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Ali Sawafta CAIRO/Ramallah (Reuters) -Thousands of Palestinians chanted praise of Hamas on Saturday as they welcomed prisoners freed under a ceasefire deal between the militant group and Israel that saw four Israeli hostages also return home. In Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, many carried freed detainees on their shoulders through …
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BEIRUT/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -The Israeli army ordered thousands of displaced Lebanese not to return to villages near the border until further notice, a day after it said its forces would remain in south Lebanon beyond a Sunday deadline to withdraw. The deadline is part of a ceasefire that ended last year’s war between Hezbollah and Israel. …
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CAIRO (Reuters) -Yemen’s Houthis released 153 prisoners on Saturday with support from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the ICRC said in a statement. The identities of the prisoners were not disclosed, but the ICRC said they had received regular visits by the organisation in Yemen’s capital Sanaa. They included older people and …
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DUBAI (Reuters) -The United Nations said on Friday that the Houthis who control northern Yemen had detained seven U.N. personnel, and it was suspending all UN staff movement in Houthi-held areas while seeking the detainees’ immediate release. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the move and demanded the immediate release of the detainees. Earlier, the U.N. …
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By Kanishka Singh and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) – New U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a call on Friday with Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son in which he urged Vietnam to address trade imbalances and also discussed shared concerns about China. In the call, the first between the …
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By Layli Foroudi FORT-DE-FRANCE, Martinique (Reuters) -Rodrigue Petitot, who led protests in French-ruled Martinique, left prison on Friday after a court handed him a one-year suspended sentence for trespassing on state property during cost-of-living demonstrations. Petitot, known as “Le R”, led last year’s social movement on the Caribbean island where poverty levels are twice as …
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By Erin Banco NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Palestinian militant group Hamas has recruited between 10,000 and 15,000 members since the start of its war with Israel, according to two congressional sources briefed on U.S. intelligence, suggesting the Iran-backed fighters could remain a persistent threat to Israel. The intelligence indicates a similar number of Hamas …
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