By Samia Nakhoul and Laila Bassam DUBAI (Reuters) – Hamas’ military leader Mohammed Deif, one of the masterminds behind what Israel termed its 9/11 moment, is an elusive figure who has rarely spoken and never appeared in public, and who has survived at least seven Israeli assassination attempts. Deif was the target of an Israeli …
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By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) -A court in Ecuador on Friday handed down prison sentences of 12 years and 34 years for five people found guilty of murdering presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio. Journalist and former legislator Villavicencio was shot while leaving a rally in August 2023, becoming the most prominent victim of Ecuador’s spiraling violence. …
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TORONTO (Reuters) – The eastern Canadian community of Labrador City was ordered evacuated on Friday in the face of an encroaching wildfire. The government of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador announced the evacuation order on Friday evening, saying the order “stems from extreme fire behaviour.” “The fire has the potential to grow significantly closer …
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MEXICALI, Mexico (Reuters) – Authorities found the body of a 23-year-old woman who went missing in northern Mexico days after she used the ride-hailing app DiDi, a case that has sparked outrage in the Latin American country where gender violence is prevalent. Education student Paola Banuelos had not been seen since getting into a car …
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(This July 11 story has been officially corrected to fix the companies’ production run rate in a bullet and in paragraphs 1-3 and corrects royalty information in paragraph 16) By Ernest Scheyder HOUSTON (Reuters) – International Battery Metals said this week it has launched its version of a novel type of lithium filtration technology, a …
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By Tom Balmforth, John Irish and Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) – Intense. Impatient. Sleep-deprived. Step into the relentless world of Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Ukraine’s wartime president. The 46-year-old said his ambition when he was elected in 2019 had been to help Ukraine become a modern democracy, before that mission was shattered by Russia’s invasion in 2022. …
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(Reuters) -Deliveries of F-35 jets to the U.S. military are set to resume shortly without the complete TR-3 software upgrade, the head of the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) said on Thursday. The delays in delivery to the Pentagon were linked to the lingering issue on the TR-3 tech refresh, which refers to a series …
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By Ismail Shakil (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday he had confidence in Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland and that the two would continue to work together, damping reports of tensions between her and the prime minister’s aides. Canada’s Globe and Mail, citing unidentified sources, reported earlier on Thursday that the relationship …
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By Daniel Trotta and Jose del Pino (Reuters) – The United States on Thursday placed sanctions on Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang with prison origins that law enforcement leaders throughout the Americas have identified as a violent and exploitative criminal organization. Known for human trafficking, the group has also been linked to extortion, kidnapping, money …
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By Sarah Morland (Reuters) -The leaders of small Caribbean island nations on Thursday said that financial damages wrought by Hurricane Beryl would run beyond their capacities and urged lenders to ease financing costs to address the worsening impacts of climate change. The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June to November, but Beryl, this season’s first …
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