By Rami Amichay TEL AVIV (Reuters) – The ceasefire deal that is close to being agreed in Gaza has left families of the 98 hostages still held in the enclave facing a mix of hope, apprehension, and, in some cases, anger as negotiators make a final push to seal an agreement. The draft proposal shared …
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BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil’s government said on Tuesday it is “seriously concerned” about Meta Platforms’ recently announced changes to its hate speech policy, adding that it believes they do not comply with the country’s legislation. Facebook owner Meta last week reduced curbs on discussions around contentious topics such as immigration and gender identity, while also scrapping …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic Caucus chair Pete Aguilar said on Tuesday he will not support conditions to disaster assistance for fire-ravaged California, as top Republicans in Congress consider making the aid conditional. “House Democrats are willing to roll up our sleeves and to stay here as long as possible, to have the conversations, but at …
By Liz Lee BEIJING (Reuters) – The annual travel rush for China’s Lunar New Year celebrations officially began on Tuesday, with many taking a mental break from their worries about the future to reunite with family or take a holiday. The peak travel season in the world’s second-largest economy kicked off with a train departing …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Hundreds of millions of Chinese criss-cross the country during the Lunar New Year holidays each year to reunite with families back in their hometowns or for sight-seeing during an extended festive period, making it the world’s largest annual human migration. The Lunar New Year travel rush, known as Chunyun in Chinese, is …
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GENEVA (Reuters) – United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk arrived in Syria’s capital, Damascus, on Tuesday for the first ever visit of the global body’s rights chief to the country. Turk, an Austrian lawyer, will visit Syria and Lebanon from Jan. 14-16 and meet with officials, civil society groups, diplomats and U.N. …
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GENEVA (Reuters) – More than a million people, over half of them children, are now displaced within Haiti where gang violence continues unabated despite the start of a United Nations-backed security mission last year, U.N. data showed on Tuesday. The tally of 1.04 million displaced people released by the International Organization for Migration represents a …
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By Pratima Desai LONDON (Reuters) – Although aluminium prices for U.S. consumers have risen since Donald Trump’s election win, the rise has been muted, signalling the industry is not expecting the President-elect to carry out his threat to impose hefty tariffs on Canadian imports. Prices of primary aluminium in the United States, a net importer …
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ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s nationalist ally on Tuesday urged jailed PKK militant group leader Abdullah Ocalan to announce the group’s disbandment after his next meeting with the country’s pro-Kurdish political party. The remarks by Devlet Bahceli, leader of the nationalist MHP party, came after a rare meeting between officials from the pro-Kurdish DEM …
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(This Jan. 13 story has been corrected to show Zakka has U.S. citizenship, in paragraph 3) By Firas Makdesi DAMASCUS (Reuters) – The head of an American organisation focused on hostage releases said on Monday he believes U.S. journalist Austin Tice was still being held in Syria by people loyal to toppled leader Bashar al-Assad. …
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