PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Heavy rains are expected to continue across Haiti on Friday, the national weather service said, after killing at least 13 people in the north and damaging thousands of homes. “If you live by a river, ravine or mountainside, move,” Haiti’s civil protection body warned. Nearly all of the country is at risk …
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By Ceyda Caglayan ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkey will not resume trade with Israel, worth around $7 billion a year, until a permanent ceasefire is secured in Gaza with unhindered humanitarian aid flowing to Palestinians there, its trade minister said on Friday. Israel’s uncompromising attitude and the worsening situation in Gaza prompted Turkey to halt trade, Omer …
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By Lewis Jackson SYDNEY (Reuters) – Hundreds of people protesting Israel’s war in Gaza rallied at one of Australia’s top universities on Friday demanding it divest from companies with ties to Israel, in a movement inspired by the student occupations sweeping U.S. campuses. Pro-Palestinian activists set up an encampment last week outside the sandstone main …
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By KyawSoe Oo and Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO (Reuters) – Quebec Premier Francois Legault said on Thursday the encampment at Montreal’s McGill University should be dismantled as more students erected pro-Palestinian camps across some of Canada’s largest universities, demanding they divest from groups with ties to Israel. The Canadian protests come as police have been …
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(Reuters) -A U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) investigation into TD Bank is focused on how Chinese drug traffickers and crime groups used the Canada’s second-largest lender to launder their money from fentanyl sales, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The bank disclosed last year that it was cooperating with authorities in an investigation into …
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(Reuters) – An Israeli strike hit a building operated by Syrian security forces on the outskirts of Damascus late on Thursday, a security source in the alliance backing Syria’s government told Reuters. There was no immediate report of a strike by Syrian state media. The Israeli military said it does not comment on reports in …
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ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey stopped all exports and imports to and from Israel as of Thursday, the Turkish trade ministry said, citing “worsening humanitarian tragedy” in the Palestinian territories. “Export and import transactions related to Israel have been stopped, covering all products,” Turkey’s trade ministry said in a statement. “Turkey will strictly and decisively implement …
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By Joan Faus BARCELONA (Reuters) – Crunch elections in Catalonia next week will test the wisdom of the latest political gambles by Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who aims to use the vote to buoy his power nationally but risks inadvertently awakening a dormant Catalan separatism. Sanchez aims to wrest control of the wealthy region …
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By Lewis Jackson SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia will spend almost A$1 billion on payments for those fleeing domestic violence and introduce new measures to police pornography and violence on the internet in response to what the government is calling a “national crisis” of gendered violence. Thousands took to the streets on Saturday to protest violence …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri said on Wednesday that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is blaming the delay of a Gaza ceasefire agreement on the Palestinian group unfairly. Blinken, meeting Israeli leaders to discuss how to get more aid into Gaza, has repeatedly urged Hamas to accept an offer from …
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