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By Erin Banco and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. officials were pressing on Monday for information about Austin Tice and to secure the release of the American journalist captured in Syria 12 years ago. Washington’s hostage-affairs envoy Roger Carstens was in Beirut as part of intensive efforts to locate Tice, according to the State Department, …

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By Brendan McDermid NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former U.S. Marine sergeant who used a chokehold to restrain Jordan Neely, a homeless man, on a New York City subway car was found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide on Monday in Neely’s death. Daniel Penny, 26, has said he never intended to kill Neely, a …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. government agencies will hold a classified briefing for the House of Representatives on Tuesday on China’s alleged efforts known as Salt Typhoon to infiltrate American telecommunications companies and steal data about U.S. calls, officials said on Monday. The FBI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Federal Communications …

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By Yuliia Dysa and Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy made the case on Monday for a diplomatic settlement to Russia’s war in Ukraine and raised the idea of foreign troops being deployed in his country until it could join the NATO military alliance. The remarks at a joint press conference with German opposition …

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By Timour Azhari DAMASCUS (Reuters) – The Sunni-led Islamist rebels who toppled Syria’s Bashar al-Assad met elders in the former president’s Alawite hometown on Monday and received their support, in what residents said was an encouraging sign of tolerance from the country’s new rulers.  How the rebels treat the sizeable Alawite population, who widely backed …

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By Maya Gebeily SEDNAYA, Syria (Reuters) – As families desperately scoured the filthy cells of Syria’s forbidding Sednaya prison on Monday for any sign of long-detained relatives after its gates were flung open by rebels, hope for finding missing loved ones began to fade. Thousands of prisoners spilled out of president Bashar al-Assad’s pitiless detention …

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By Andrew Mills DOHA (Reuters) -Qatari diplomats spoke with Syria’s leading rebel faction, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, on Monday, an official briefed on the developments told Reuters, as regional states race to open contact with the group after its rapid offensive toppled Bashar al-Assad. Qatar plans to speak with Mohamed al-Bashir, an HTS leader, on Tuesday, …

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By Harold Isaac (Reuters) -Around 180 people were killed over the weekend in Haiti’s Cite Soleil area, Haiti’s prime minister’s office said on Monday, after attacks that an NGO said were ordered by a gang leader who suspected his child had been made ill using witchcraft. “A red line has been crossed,” the office said …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned on Monday that Islamic State will try to use this period to re-establish capabilities in Syria, but said the United States is determined not to let that happen. Blinken said Syrians have to choose their future, adding that statements by rebel leaders toward building inclusive governance …

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