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By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Pentagon on Thursday said it has 2,000 U.S. troops in Syria, more than twice the 900 it has previously said it has, and that the additional troops are considered temporary forces that were sent to support the mission against Islamic State militants. Pentagon spokesperson Major General …

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By Vladimir Soldatkin and Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that he was ready to compromise over Ukraine in possible talks with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on ending the war and had no conditions for starting talks with the Ukrainian authorities. Trump, a self-styled master of brokering agreements and author …

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By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who is mulling his future amid a major political crisis, has the full support of his cabinet to stay on, new Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc said on Thursday. Trudeau’s minority Liberal government was plunged into crisis this week after Chrystia Freeland, the previous finance minister, …

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By Lili Bayer and Andrew Gray BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged European countries on Thursday to provide guarantees to protect Ukraine after the war with Russia ends but said these would not be enough without support from the United States under Donald Trump. While the fighting triggered by Russia’s 2022 invasion goes on …

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By Timour Azhari and Kinda Makieh DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Syria will remove all references to the former ruling Baath party from its educational system as of next week but will not otherwise change school curricula or restrict the rights of girls to learn, the country’s new education minister said.  “Education is a red line for …

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By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – American Airlines has agreed to settle a race discrimination lawsuit by three Black men who were temporarily removed from a flight at the insistence of white flight attendants, according to a court filing on Thursday. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed, but lawyers for the men said the …

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By Mrinalika Roy and Seher Dareen (Reuters) – Geothermal energy startups are on the upswing with Big Tech companies looking to feed their power-intensive AI data centers, but long-term investments remain uncertain as oil majors double down on natural gas. Meta and Alphabet’s Google are among the tech companies partnering with startups proposing to produce …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Following are some of the key quotes from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annual phone-in and press conference. ON HIS 25 YEARS IN POWER Yes, I think that I did more than just safeguard (Russia). I think that we have moved back from the edge of the abyss, because everything that happened to …

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