(This June 14 story has been corrected to fix the son’s age to 16, not 17, in paragraph 1) By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) – U.S. authorities on Friday arrested a Turkish author and her 16-year-old son wanted by Turkey on charges he was involved in a fatal car crash in Istanbul then fled the …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. military is preparing to temporarily remove its humanitarian pier off the coast of Gaza because of anticipated sea conditions, a U.S. official said on Friday, the latest challenge to the effort that has been hampered by bad weather since it was put into place in May. The floating U.S. military pier …
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By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombia hopes to sign and begin to implement a peace deal with the Segunda Marquetalia armed group before current President Gustavo Petro leaves office in just over two years, the head of the government’s negotiating team said on Friday. Segunda Marquetalia is a dissident faction of the now-demobilized Revolutionary …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right wing Likud party has reduced the gap behind the centrist party of former minister Benny Gantz, who quit the wartime unity government on Sunday, two polls showed on Friday. The polls, for the left wing Ma’ariv daily and the right wing Israel Hayom newspaper, showed Likud …
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By Dave Graham and Tom Balmforth ZURICH/KYIV (Reuters) – World leaders will join Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy at a summit this weekend to explore ways of ending the deadliest conflict in Europe since World War Two, but Russia isn’t invited and the event will fall short of Kyiv’s aim of isolating Moscow. U.S. Vice President …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO members are set to take tougher action against Russian spies across the alliance in response to a campaign of hostile activities by Moscow that includes acts of sabotage and cyber attacks, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday. “We have seen several examples of sabotage, of arson attempts, of cyber attacks, …
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By Nicolás Misculin BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Argentina’s Senate kicked off debate of a sprawling bill on Wednesday that is key to new libertarian President Javier Milei’s economic reform plans, even as protesters set fires and clashed with police against in the streets outside Congress. The upper house, which is divided almost down the middle over …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Russia launched missile and drone attacks on Ukraine early on Wednesday, causing a fire at an industrial facility, damaging residences and injuring several people across six regions, local authorities said. Ukrainian military said it shot down five out of six missiles and all 24 drones launched during Russia’s overnight attack. Ukraine’s air defence …
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By Leonardo Benassatto CORUMBA, Brazil (Reuters) – As Jose Cleiton and Brandao Amilton ride their horses into the vastness of the Pantanal grassy wetlands of Brazil, a wall of smoke towers from the horizon far into the sky above. The worst of the dry season is still far off, but already these Brazilian wetlands are …
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(Reuters) -Millions of Americans would see medical debts vanish from their credit reports under pending regulations unveiled Tuesday, Vice President Kamala Harris announced. The proposed regulations, unveiled by the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, come as Joe Biden’s administration works to tout its economic policies ahead of November’s elections. The move would remove up to …
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