By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -The number of people executed in Iran rose to 901 last year, including 31 women, some of whom were convicted of murdering their husbands to fend off rape or after being forced into marriage, the U.N. human rights office said on Tuesday. Most of the executions were for drug-related offences, …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A group representing self-driving car companies on Tuesday called on the U.S. government to do more to speed the deployment of autonomous vehicles and remove barriers to adoption. “The federal government is the one that needs to lead when it comes to vehicle design, construction and performance, and we …
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By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The number of migrants arrested illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in December was lower than when President-elect Donald Trump ended his first term in 2020, according to preliminary figures shared with Reuters, a relative calm that Trump could upend with sweeping changes. U.S. Border Patrol apprehended about 47,000 migrants …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Monday that he and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have been speaking through representatives and he believes the two leaders will get along. “We’ve already been talking. We’ve been talking through their representatives,” Trump said in an interview with conservative talk show host Hugh Hewitt. Trump, who takes …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China attaches “great importance” to the remarks of Donald Trump, the foreign ministry said in response to comments on Monday from the U.S. President-elect saying he has been in talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping through their aides. Trump had said he believed he and Xi will get along but it had …
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WASHINGTON/CARACAS (Reuters) -Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez, who says he won a July presidential election and is recognized by multiple countries as president-elect, said on Monday he had a fruitful meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden and spoke at length with President-elect Donald Trump’s security advisor. “The people of Venezuela deserve a peaceful transfer of …
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(Reuters) – A security guard at the Honduran consulate near Atlanta was shot dead on Monday by an armed man who refused to hand over his weapon before entering the building and instead fired on the security guard, the Honduran foreign minister said. Officials in the Atlanta suburb of Doraville said the suspect was in …
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By Timour Azhari and Daphne Psaledakis DAMASCUS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. on Monday issued a sanctions exemption for transactions with governing institutions in Syria for six months after the end of Bashar al-Assad’s rule in an effort to ease the flow of humanitarian assistance. The exemption, known as a general license, also allows some energy transactions …
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By Jeff Mason and Kanishka Singh ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) -The White House said on Monday that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who announced that he will step down in the coming months after nine years in power, has been a “stalwart friend” of the United States. “Prime Minister Trudeau has been a stalwart …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. military said on Monday operations against Islamic State in Iraq over the past week led to the death of a non-U.S. coalition soldier and wounded two other non-U.S. personnel. It also detailed operations in Syria against Islamic State militants led by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, including one that resulted …
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