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By Huseyin Hayatsever and Simon Lewis ANKARA (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Turkey on Thursday for talks focused on a critical aspect of establishing stability in Syria: clashes in the north of the country between U.S.-backed Kurdish forces and Turkey-backed rebels. Blinken met President Tayyip Erdogan at Ankara’s Esenboga Airport …

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) -NATO head Mark Rutte warned the U.S.-led transatlantic alliance on Thursday that it was not ready for the threats it would face from Russia in the coming years and called for a shift to a wartime mindset – with much higher defence spending. Rutte said future spending would have to be much higher …

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By Simon Lewis AQABA, Jordan (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Jordan’s King Abdullah on Thursday as President Joe Biden’s outgoing administration pushes for an inclusive transition in neighboring Syria following the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad. The top U.S. diplomat, who will head to Turkey later on Thursday, is in the region to …

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(This Dec. 11 story has been corrected to say that Kirchner ran for vice president in 2019, not last year, in paragraph 5) BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s former President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner took the helm of the Peronist party on Wednesday, vowing a comeback to take on the highly popular libertarian President Javier …

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By Nia Williams (Reuters) -The Western Canadian province of Alberta will spend C$29 million ($20.46 million) to create a new sheriff-led patrol unit to police its 298-kilometer (185-mile) border with the U.S. state of Montana, the premier said on Thursday. Alberta’s plan follows a pledge from President-elect Donald Trump to impose a 25% tariff on …

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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A senior judge was assassinated in the Mexican resort city of Acapulco on Wednesday a day after the country’s president convened security officials there to address a wave of violence. Edmundo Roman Pinzon, the former head of the highest court in Mexico’s Guerrero state, home to Acapulco, was gunned down on …

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By Sarah Morland MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The Inter-American Development Bank on Thursday announced the launch of a regional security alliance against crime that brings together 18 governments across Latin America and the Caribbean as well as several international finance institutions. “Security needs to be part of the solution for our economic progress,” IDB President …

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