(Reuters) -NASA said on Friday that its Parker Solar Probe was “safe” and operating normally after successfully completing the closest-ever approach to the Sun by any human-made object. The spacecraft passed 3.8 million miles (6.1 million km) from the solar surface on Dec. 24, flying into the sun’s outer atmosphere called the corona, on a …
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(This Dec. 26 story has been refiled to remove the extra word ‘said,’ and ‘which’ from paragraphs 5, 11 respectively) By Kanishka Singh and Liz Lee WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department said that Hong Kong’s offered bounties for six more pro-democracy campaigners who were deemed to have violated national security laws and the …
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(This Dec. 26 story has been corrected to fix the spelling of Guatemalan president’s first name, Bernardo, in paragraph 11) By Sarah Kinosian MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Guatemala is open to receiving citizens of other Central American nations who are deported from the United States, three sources familiar with the matter said, as the country …
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By Laila Bassam and Tom Perry BEIRUT (Reuters) – Rifaat al-Assad, an uncle of the ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad charged in Switzerland with war crimes over the bloody suppression of a revolt in 1982, has flown from Beirut to Dubai in recent days, two Lebanese security officials said on Friday. The officials said that …
By Fabio Teixeira RIO DE JANEIRO/SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Chinese workers at a construction site in Brazil for a factory owned by China’s electric vehicle producer BYD are victims of human trafficking, Brazilian labor authorities said on Thursday in a growing controversy in BYD’s biggest overseas market. BYD and contractor Jinjiang Group have agreed to assist and …
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LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s government on Thursday declared an environmental emergency in a northern coastal area, where state oil firm Petroperu last weekend spilled a crude oil shipment into surrounding waters of the Pacific Ocean. A vessel carrying out pre-shipment maneuvers caused the spill on Saturday at a terminal of Peru’s Talara refinery in northern …
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By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia’s point man for arms control cautioned Donald Trump’s incoming administration on Friday against resuming nuclear testing, saying Moscow would keep its own options open amid what he said was Washington’s “extremely hostile” stance. The resumption of testing by the world’s two biggest nuclear powers would usher in a new …
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PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haiti on Thursday tapped the nation’s security minister to fill in as interim health minister, the official gazette showed, two days after armed men fired on a planned hospital reopening event hosted by the previous health minister, leaving three people dead. The ministry had called on journalists to attend the event at …
(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is proposing that cosmetic products containing talc should be tested using standardized methods to detect asbestos, a potential contaminant, according to documents posted on the federal register on Thursday. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT Asbestos, a known human carcinogen, can be injurious to consumers if found in talc-containing cosmetic …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Ramadan Abed CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) -Gaza authorities said an Israeli airstrike killed five Palestinian journalists in a vehicle outside a hospital on Thursday but the Israeli army said the victims were Islamic Jihad militants posing as media workers. Medics said the five were among at least 31 people killed in Israeli air …
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