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MEXICO CITY/RIOHACHA, Colombia (Reuters) – Venezuelan migrant Mariangela Lozano longs for her homeland, but ahead of Friday’s planned inauguration for President Nicolas Maduro’s third term, she has begrudgingly opted to remain in Mexico and brave her meager living conditions. “If Maduro weren’t in government … I’d be the first to return to Venezuela”, Lozano said …

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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum on Wednesday suggested North America including the United States could be renamed “Mexican America” – an historic name used on an early map of the region – in response to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America.” “Mexican America, …

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By Joe Cash BEIJING (Reuters) -More than 400 people trapped by rubble in earthquake-stricken Tibet have been rescued, Chinese officials said on Wednesday, with an unknown number still unaccounted for in freezing weather a day after a strong tremor rocked the Himalayan foothills. The epicentre of Tuesday’s magnitude 6.8 quake, one of the region’s most …

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By Kate Abnett and Christian Levaux BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Global efforts to address climate change will be dealt a severe blow if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump again pulls the country out of the Paris Agreement, the EU’s head of climate change policy has warned. Trump’s transition team has prepared executive orders to withdraw the United …

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CARACAS (Reuters) -Two U.S. citizens have been arrested in Venezuela, part of a group of seven who President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday branded as “mercenaries,” in the latest roundup ahead of the embattled leader’s expected inauguration to a new term later this week. Maduro said the detained U.S. citizens were “very high level,” but did …

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OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday dismissed a suggestion by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump that he might use “economic force” to make Canada the 51st U.S. state. “There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States,” he said in a post on X. “Workers and …

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