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GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) -A Guatemalan judge on Friday ruled that jailed journalist Jose Zamora can leave prison and be held in house arrest after over 800 days behind bars. Zamora, a well-known journalist who founded the now-defunct elPeriodico newspaper and whose work has criticized successive governments, was arrested in July 2022 on money laundering charges. …

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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico’s navy said on Friday it had arrested 23 people in its largest-ever drugs bust, seizing some 8.4 thousand kilograms of illicit cargo in an operation off the country’s southwestern Pacific coast. “This represents the largest quantity of drugs seized in a maritime operation, without precedent in the history of the institution,” …

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By Cassandra Garrison CHILPANCINGO, Mexico (Reuters) – Hundreds of people dressed in white marched through the streets, many with tears in their eyes, chanting “No More Violence!” on a humid October afternoon in Chilpancingo days after the brutal murder of its mayor. The brazen decapitation of 43-year-old Alejandro Arcos, which has yet to be solved, …

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By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombian land dedicated to the cultivation of coca leaves, a raw ingredient for cocaine, jumped 10% last year to reach the largest area in over two decades, a report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) found on Friday. Some 253,000 hectares were planted with coca …

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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -At least 33 people were killed and 85 wounded in Israeli strikes that hit several houses on Friday in Jabalia, the largest of Gaza’s eight historic refugee camps, medics said, where residents said tanks blew up roads and houses. The Hamas-run Gaza government media office said the death toll from …

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By Jake Spring (Reuters) – Global destruction of nature has reached unprecedented extremes. As the United Nations two-week COP16 biodiversity summit kicks off on Monday in Cali, Colombia, here is what you need to know about nature’s rapid decline – and its importance to the global economy. ANIMALS AND PLANTS Plants and animals play significant …

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By Steve Holland and Kanishka Singh DETROIT (Reuters) -Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Friday that the death of Palestinian Islamist group Hamas’ leader Yahya Sinwar would make the prospect of peace easier in Gaza. “I think it makes it easier,” the former president told reporters as he arrived in Detroit for campaign events. …

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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) – The Palestinian militant group Hamas will likely replace Yahya Sinwar with a new political leader based outside Gaza while his brother – Mohammad Sinwar – is expected to assume a bigger role directing the war against Israel in the territory, experts say. In its leadership deliberations, Hamas must consider …

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