(Reuters) -Big companies from Wall Street to Silicon Valley are pledging donations to Donald Trump’s inaugural fund before his Jan. 20 return to the White House, hoping to establish a positive rapport with his new administration. The companies include: ADOBE Adobe has donated $1 million to the fund, a company spokesperson said. BP AMERICA Energy …
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By Lisa Richwine and Dawn Chmielewski ARCADIA, California (Reuters) – Yuri Williams donned a red superhero costume and hauled $2,000 worth of toys to a temporary Los Angeles-area donation center on Sunday, hoping to bring cheer to people displaced by this week’s devastating wildfires. A child waved and shouted “Hi, Deadpool!” to Williams as he …
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ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s intelligence agency conducted a cross-border operation inside Syria and seized a man suspected of perpetrating a 2013 bomb attack near the Syrian border that killed dozens of people, a Turkish security source said on Monday. Twin car bombs ripped through the border town of Reyhanli in Hatay province on May 11, …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel has not received a draft proposal for a deal to halt the fighting in Gaza and return its hostages, an Israeli official said on Monday. Earlier, an official briefed on the negotiations said Qatar had handed Israel and Hamas a “final” draft of a ceasefire and hostage release agreement designed to …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwanese charged with suspicion of spying on behalf of China rose by a third to 64 people last year, the island’s National Security Bureau said, adding most were current or retired soldiers. China has stepped up political and military pressure in recent years to back its claim that democratically governed Taiwan is …
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By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A top level Israeli security delegation arrived in Qatar on Sunday for talks on a Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal, a spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, in a possible sign of so-far elusive agreements nearing. Qatar and fellow mediators Egypt and the United States are making …
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By Pesha Magid RIYADH (Reuters) – European foreign ministers will meet at the end of January to discuss the lifting of sanctions on Syria, the EU foreign policy chief said on Sunday in Riyadh ahead of a meeting of top Middle Eastern and Western diplomats and Syria’s new foreign minister. Kaja Kallas, the EU foreign …
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By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) – The world must return to a policy of “maximum pressure” against Iran to turn it into a more democratic country, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg told an Iranian opposition event in Paris on Saturday. Trump has vowed to return to the policy he pursued in his previous …
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary plans to hold talks with regional allies to counter the impact of higher oil prices resulting from a new round of US sanctions on Russia’s oil and gas sector, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Sunday. U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration imposed its broadest package of sanctions so far targeting …
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Venezuela on Saturday condemned new sanctions that the U.S., Britain, and the European Union imposed the previous day, when the country swore in President Nicolas Maduro for a third term after a six-month election dispute. “The Venezuelan Armed Forces categorically and energetically rejects the new sanctions imposed by the infamous imperial …
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