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By Nelson Renteria SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) -El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele took office on Saturday for a second term pledging to cure the “illnesses” of the Central American country by prescribing his medicine to fix the economy, following his successful treatment to cure the “cancer of the gangs” during his first five years in office. …

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CAIRO (Reuters) – Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said on Saturday that mediators hope all parties will deal positively with the principles of a Gaza ceasefire proposal that U.S. President Joe Biden laid out on Friday. Al Thani made the remarks during a phone call with U.S. Secretary of State Antony …

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(Reuters) – Olympic champion Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone ramped up preparations for a title defence at this year’s Paris Games by running a world-leading time of 52.70 seconds on Friday in her first 400 metres hurdles race in over a year. McLaughlin-Levrone, the world record holder in the 400 hurdles, last competed in the event in August …

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By Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s election is now the bloodiest in its modern history after a candidate running for local office in central Puebla state was murdered on Friday at a political rally, taking the number of assassinated candidates to 37 ahead of Sunday’s vote. Jorge Huerta Cabrera, a candidate who was …

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SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The United States is unlikely to help South Korea build nuclear-powered submarines at the moment, as it is stretched by AUKUS commitments to Australia, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said at the Shangri-La security dialogue in Singapore. In 2021 the United States signed the AUKUS pact with Britain and Australia to share …

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GAZA (Reuters) -Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Friday said it had a positive view of the contents of a three-phase ceasefire proposal announced by U.S. President Joe Biden for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. “Hamas confirms its readiness to deal positively and in a constructive manner with any proposal that is based on the permanent …

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DUBAI (Reuters) – Former Iranian parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani, a prominent conservative, was among candidates registering on Friday for an early election next month following the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash, state media reported. Larijani, an adviser and ally of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, told reporters that he would focus …

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KAZAN, Russia (Reuters) – A Russian court on Friday extended until Aug.5 the pre-trial detention of journalist Alsu Kurmasheva who hold Russian and United States citizenships, a Reuters correspondent reported from the courtroom in the city of Kazan. Kurmasheva is a Prague-based journalist for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), which is funded by the U.S. …

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By Ana Isabel Martinez MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico’s presidential candidates formally ended their campaigns on Wednesday, with most polls showing ruling party hopeful Claudia Sheinbaum on course to become the country’s first woman president after Sunday’s national vote. Latin America’s No. 2 economy will hold its largest election ever, with more than 20,000 local, state …

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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine has urged its allies to allow Kyiv to use Western-supplied arms to conduct strikes inside Russia and abandon an official position some of them have held throughout Russia’s 27-month-old full-scale invasion.  President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told Reuters on May 20 that talks had taken place with Kyiv’s allies about using their weapons to …

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