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By Rodrigo Campos NEW YORK (Reuters) – Violence and crime absorb almost 3.5% of Latin America and the Caribbean’s (LAC) economic output, depleting funds that could be used in education and assisting the vulnerable, a report by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) showed. Beyond the human toll, the cost of crime amounts to almost 80% …

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TAIPEI (Reuters) – There is no new “stage of talks” with the United States at the moment for arms sales, Taiwan’s government said on Monday, as the island considers how best to respond to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s previous demands that Taipei pay for protection. Trump, who won a second term as president last week, …

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By Jessica Donati DAKAR (Reuters) -A decline in U.S. influence in Africa means U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s administration will have to grapple with blind spots in its understanding of a fast-changing continent increasingly allied with China and Russia and threatened by spreading jihadist insurgencies. Interviews with eight current and former officials along with a review …

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By Satoshi Sugiyama TOKYO (Reuters) -Yuichiro Tamaki, the head of the Japanese opposition party that has emerged as kingmaker as lawmakers select the next prime minister on Monday, said a tabloid report about his extra-marital affair with a model was “basically true”. “I apologise for the trouble caused,” the Democratic Party for the People (DPP) …

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(Reuters) -President-elect Donald Trump has offered Republican Representative Elise Stefanik the job as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, CNN reported on Sunday, citing two unnamed sources. Reuters earlier reported that Stefanik, a fierce Trump ally, was under consideration for the role. “President-Elect Trump will begin making decisions on who will serve in his second …

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By Harold Isaac PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -Haiti will name entrepreneur and former senate candidate Alix Didier Fils-Aime to replace Prime Minister Garry Conille, who was tapped for the role in May, according to a transitional presidential council draft resolution seen by Reuters. The shakeup is the latest blow to political stability in the country, which has …

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(Reuters) -Gunmen killed 10 people in a bar in the central Mexican state of Queretaro late Saturday, authorities said, adding to a wave of violent crime that is gripping several areas of the country. The incident took place in a bar in the downtown area of the state’s capital, also known as Queretaro, where four …

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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Authorities in Guerrero, one of Mexico’s most violent states, said Thursday they found the remains of 11 people in the capital Chilpancingo, marking what appears to be another grisly homicide weeks after the city’s mayor was murdered and decapitated. The bodies were nine men and two women, with two minors among …

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