WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. Army soldier who was in critical condition after suffering non-combat injuries while supporting the military’s pier off the coast of Gaza has died, the U.S. military said on Monday. Sergeant Quandarius Davon Stanley, who recently retired from the military, suffered critical injuries in May while supporting operations at sea of …
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By Ricardo Brito BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian authorities are preparing to remove illegal gold miners from an Indigenous reservation in the Amazon rainforest that has been criss-crossed with informal airstrips and contaminated with mercury, an official said. The Munduruku territory covers nearly 24,000 square km (9,000 square miles), about the size of the U.S. state …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -Israel has formally ended a decades-old cooperation agreement with the United Nations Palestinian relief agency (UNRWA) that covered the protection, movement and diplomatic immunity of the agency in Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Israel notified the U.N. in a letter on Sunday, as required by a …
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s Congress will likely be able to pass a constitutional reform abolishing certain autonomous institutions by mid-November, the lower house’s leader said on Monday. The reform “will probably come out some time between Nov. 11 and 14,” lower house leader for the ruling Morena party, Ricardo Monreal, said in a press …
By Jake Spring CALI, Colombia (Reuters) – Wealthy nations appeared to hit a limit with how much they are willing to pay to conserve nature around the world, instead shifting their focus at the two-week U.N. biodiversity summit toward discussions of private money filling the funding gap. At the COP16 negotiations in Cali, Colombia, countries …
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By Lucila Sigal BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s showman libertarian President Javier Milei sang along to Elvis Presley on Monday even as he took aim at officials he called “traitors” for defying him in a vote on the economic embargo of Cuba at the United Nations. In a colorful interview with Ciudad Magazine, which included …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and Saudi Arabia are discussing a potential security agreement that wouldn’t involve a broader deal with Israel, Axios reported on Monday, citing three unidentified sources. The agreement under discussion is not a full defense treaty, Axios reported. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and the White House want to …
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By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO (Reuters) – The judge and senator who chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into Canadian residential schools’ abuse of Indigenous children has died. He was 73. Murray Sinclair, born near Selkirk, Manitoba, was remembered Monday as a powerful voice for survivors of Canada’s residential school system and other colonial legacies. …
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By Manuel Ausloos and Antony Paone PAIPORTA, Spain (Reuters) -Hundreds of residents of a Valencia suburb badly hit by last week’s deadly floods protested on Sunday during a visit by Spanish King Felipe, Queen Letizia, and Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, with some throwing mud at them. Chanting “Murderers, murderers!” they vented pent-up anger over what …
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(Reuters) – Quincy Jones, a major influence on American music in his work with artists ranging from Count Basie to Frank Sinatra and who then reshaped pop music by collaborating with Michael Jackson, died on Sunday at the age of 91, his publicist said. (Reporting by Bill Trott, Shubham Kalia and Devika Nair; editing by …
