PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – More than 10,000 people in Haiti have been internally displaced in the last week as armed gangs operating in and around the capital Port-au-Prince ramp up attacks on areas they do not yet control, according U.N. migration agency estimates on Thursday. The agency had said at the start of September that more …
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A shootout between two battling criminal groups in Mexico’s southern Pacific state of Guerrero on Thursday left 16 people dead, authorities said, as the country has been hit by a wave of recent violence. Around 5 a.m. on Thursday morning, warring cartels were facing off in the state’s rural, mountainous region, …
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By Anna Mehler Paperny and Ed White TORONTO (Reuters) -Canada’s immigration cuts, meant to ease strained housing and social services, could hurt the country’s labor pool, some industry groups said on Thursday. While Canada has long prided itself as a place that welcomes new immigrants, public opinion in the country has recently soured on immigration, …
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By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) – Bus drivers in Peru, angry over violent attacks and extortion, went on strike on Wednesday for the third time in less than a month, disrupting the country’s sprawling capital as the government moved to quell anxiety over rising crime rates. Soldiers deployed across Lima early in the morning to …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -At least 17 Palestinians, including children, were killed on Thursday in an Israeli strike on a school in Nuseirat camp in the central part of the Gaza Strip, where people displaced by the fighting were sheltering, Nuseirat’s Al-Awda hospital said. The Israeli military said it had hit a Hamas command …
By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli strikes across Gaza killed 42 people on Wednesday as Israeli forces intensified a siege of northern parts of the Palestinian enclave, surrounding hospitals and refugee shelters, and ordering residents to head south, medics and residents said. The Gaza health ministry and the World Health Organization said they would be …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean propaganda leaflets apparently carried by balloons were found scattered on the streets of the South Korean capital Seoul on Thursday, including some making personal attacks on the country’s president and first lady. The leaflets attacking South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and First Lady Kim Keon Hee found in the …
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By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan, jailed 25 years ago, is again a focus of attention in Turkey after President Tayyip Erdogan’s nationalist ally raised the possibility of his release in exchange for ending his group’s decades-long insurgency. Devlet Bahceli, leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), made the surprise …
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By Cheney Orr YEPOCAPA/SAN JUAN LA LAGUNA, Guatemala (Reuters) – The journey of Rossanna and Widman began in the Guatemalan village of San Juan La Laguna, on the turquoise Lake Atitlan, where they met when he bought the tortillas she was selling for lunch. It ended in the murky waters of the Rio Grande. The …
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By Amy Tennery NEW YORK (Reuters) – The New York Yankees hope to tighten their grip on the history books with a chance at a 28th World Series title, when they make their first trip to the Fall Classic in 15 years against the Los Angeles Dodgers beginning on Friday. The Bronx Bombers long ago …
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