LONDON (Reuters) – Refugees should be included in climate policy, actor and UNHCR goodwill ambassador Theo James has said as he heads to COP29 to call for greater support for those affected by the impact of climate change. James, whose grandfather was a refugee who fled Greece for Syria during World War Two, will join …
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PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -A Spirit Airlines flight destined for the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince was struck by gunfire on Monday, forcing it to be diverted to the neighboring Dominican Republic. Spirit said in a statement that the plane had been damaged and taken out of commission upon landing in the northern Dominican city of Santiago. A …
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By Bhanvi Satija and Puyaan Singh (Reuters) -Talks aimed at reaching a global agreement on how to better fight pandemics will continue into next year and are expected to be completed by the next World Health Assembly in May, the World Health Organization said on Monday. “Member states are working to conclude a global pandemic …
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard suggested on Monday that the Mexican government could retaliate with its own tariffs on U.S. imports if the incoming Trump administration slaps tariffs on Mexican exports. Ebrard made the comments in an interview with local broadcaster Radio Formula, in which he reflected on how President-elect Donald …
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(Reuters) – The New York Times Tech Guild is ending a week-long strike that started one day before the U.S. presidential election and will return to work on Tuesday, it said in a post on X on Monday. More than 600 tech workers of NYT, including software engineers, designers and product managers, had gone on …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. military said on Monday it had carried out strikes against nine targets associated with Iranian groups in Syria. In a statement, the U.S. military said the strikes were against two locations in Syria and a response to several attacks on U.S. personnel in Syria in the past 24 hours. The U.S. …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Collapsed cryptocurrency company FTX is suing Binance and its former CEO Changpeng Zhao, alleging that $1.8 billion was “fraudulently transferred” by FTX management to Binance and its executives. The lawsuit relates to Binance’s sale of its stake in Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX, which it acquired in 2019 but then negotiated to sell back …
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By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) – The United States this week will decide whether Israel has made progress toward improving the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip and how Washington will respond, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday as Israel began to make its case. President Joe Biden’s administration told Israel in …
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By Sabine Siebold BERLIN (Reuters) – Old Soviet tanks have been borrowed from museums to help train Ukrainian troops on what a commander of the EU training mission for Kyiv says are booby-trap tactics used by Russian soldiers on the battlefield. Instructors from 17 nations have trained some 18,000 Ukrainian troops in Germany to operate …
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By Divya Rajagopal (Reuters) -The Montreal Longshoremen’s Union rejected a final offer made for a new labour contract, leading to a lockout being declared, the Maritime Employers Association (MEA) and the union said on Sunday. The MEA said in a statement the lockout, which will impact nearly 1,200 port workers at the Canadian port that …
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