PANAMA CITY (Reuters) -Panama’s government expects to start deportation flights for migrants who crossed the country’s dangerous Darien jungle in two to three months, the country’s chief of migration Roger Mojica said Friday. The flights will be paid by the United States under a recent agreement that the two countries closed earlier this month. “We …
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By Shivansh Tiwary and Maria Ponnezhath (Reuters) -Top U.S. carriers including Delta Air and United Airlines are restoring some operations on Friday after a technical issue related to an IT vendor forced multiple carriers to ground flights. However, delays and cancellations were expected to persist throughout the day, as airlines try to fully recover from …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy addressed British government ministers on Friday, a rare appearance by a foreign leader at a cabinet meeting that new Prime Minister Keir Starmer hopes will underline London’s support for Kyiv. A day after hosting a forum of European leaders at Blenheim Palace, Starmer pressed on with his bid to …
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By Rami Amichay TEL AVIV (Reuters) – A long-range Iranian-made drone hit the centre of Tel Aviv in the early hours of Friday, in an attack claimed by the Yemen-based Houthi militia that killed one man and slightly wounded four others, the Israeli military and emergency services said. The explosion, which did not trigger air …
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday that former U.S. President Donald Trump and Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico were both attacked for their “anti-war views”. Fico was hit by four bullets in an assassination attempt in mid-May while Trump, the Republican party’s nominee for the November presidential vote, survived a …
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By Lucila Sigal and Kylie Madry BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s Jewish community is set to commemorate on Thursday the 30th anniversary of a targeted bombing which killed 85 people, with President Javier Milei promising to right decades of inaction and inconsistencies in the investigations into the attack. In 1994, a bomb-filled van hit the …
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By Michele Kambas NICOSIA (Reuters) – Every week for the past 20 years, a group of Greek and Turkish Cypriots have gathered in a cobbled courtyard in Cyprus’s divided capital Nicosia to reminisce about the past and dream of a reunited homeland. With the longest stalemate in peace negotiations in memory, it is a bleak …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A high-level U.S. civilian and military delegation visited Papua New Guinea this week to stress U.S. commitment to the strategic Pacific territory, where China is competing for influence. The visit from Sunday until Tuesday was aimed at accelerating implementation of new projects linked to a Defense Cooperation Agreement signed last year, the White House statement …
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By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. military announced on Wednesday that its mission to install and operate a temporary, floating pier off the coast of Gaza was complete, formally ending an extraordinary but troubled effort to bring humanitarian aid to Palestinians. The pier, announced by President Joe Biden during a televised …
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By Ali Sawafta JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) – Roads torn up months ago by Israeli army bulldozers in Jenin refugee camp remain unpassable because the Palestinian Authority can’t afford to fix them. Government employees are being paid a fraction of their salaries, and health services are collapsing. These are all signs of a deep financial …
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