By Elizabeth Piper and Alistair Smout SILVERSTONE, England (Reuters) -Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledged to cut 17 billion pounds ($21.7 billion) of taxes for working people if re-elected, in a final throw of the dice to overturn polls that put him on course for a heavy defeat in Britain’s July 4 election. With his Conservative …
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(Corrects to say commission’s (not Canada’s) ability to participate in U.N. proceedings is at risk) By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO (Reuters) -A United Nations-affiliated body is reviewing allegations Canada’s human rights commission discriminated against Black and other employees and disproportionately dismissed race-based complaints, a move that could hinder the commission’s ability to participate in U.N. …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) – A senior Hamas official urged the United States on Monday to pressure Israel to end the war in Gaza, ahead of the planned visit on Monday by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to the region to push forward ceasefire efforts. Blinken is set to visit Egypt and Israel …
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico’s ruling Morena party and its allies have won a super-majority in the lower house of Congress but not the Senate, the party’s president said on Sunday, falling just short of the two-thirds majority needed in both houses to change the constitution. Preliminary results from the June 2 vote, which elected Claudia …
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By James Mackenzie JERUSALEM (Reuters) – In the traumatic aftermath of the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, as hundreds of thousands of Israeli reservists rushed to join the ranks to fight Hamas, Benny Gantz said he felt it was his duty to join the war effort. “This is not a political partnership I am in,” …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz announced on Sunday that he was quitting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s emergency unity government formed shortly after the Hamas Oct 7. attack on Israel. His departure still leaves Netanyahu’s nationalist-religious coalition in control of parliament with a 64-seat majority in the 120 seat Knesset. Gantz, a …
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PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -Haiti’s new interim prime minister, Garry Conille, is in stable condition after being hospitalized for an unspecified illness on Saturday afternoon, his office said. Conille, 58, who took office just over a week ago, was rushed to hospital after suffering breathing problems, local media reported earlier. His office did not provide details on …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Humanitarian aid entering Gaza by sea via a U.S.- built pier will resume in the coming days, the Israeli military said on Saturday, after repairs to the structure were completed. “The IDF (Israel Defence Forces) has begun securing the coastal area of the U.S. military’s Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore (JLOTS) capability – in …
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A local Mexican councilwoman in a small town in the Pacific coastal state of Guerrero was killed on Friday by armed men who showed up at her front door, authorities and local media said, following the most violent elections in modern Mexican history. Esmeralda Garzon, who led the equity and gender …
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PANAMA CITY (Reuters) -Two shooters opened fire on Friday at a rural branch of the University of Panama, killing a young man and wounding another, police and university officials said. The unknown gunmen arrived at the university’s Veraguas regional college, about 155 miles (250 km) west of the capital, where a group of first-year agricultural …
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