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By Steven Grattan (Reuters) – Brazil’s far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro stayed for two nights at the Hungarian embassy in Brasilia last month, just days after federal police confiscated his passport and arrested two former aides on suspicion of plotting a coup, Bolsonaro’s lawyer said on Monday. Bolsonaro’s Feb. 12-14 stay at the Hungarian embassy …

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By Fabio Teixeira and Ricardo Brito RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -Brazilian police arrested three people on Sunday, including a federal lawmaker and former police chief, accused of planning and ordering the 2018 murder of Rio de Janeiro city council member Marielle Franco and her driver. Justice Minister Ricardo Lewandowski told a news conference the arrests …

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QUITO (Reuters) -Ecuador’s youngest mayor, Brigitte Garcia, and a staffer were found shot dead in a car early on Sunday, said police in the South American country, which is in the grips of a wave of violence that authorities blame on drug trafficking National police said they were investigating the deaths of Garcia, the 27-year-old …

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By Dan Williams and Nidal al-Mughrabi JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) – The United States has made a “bridging proposal” for the number of jailed Palestinians that should be released by Israel in exchange for every hostage freed by Hamas in any new Gaza truce, an Israeli official briefed on the Qatar-hosted talks said on Saturday. An Israeli …

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By Humeyra Pamuk and Nidal al-Mughrabi TEL AVIV (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday that Israel risked further global isolation if it went ahead with plans for a ground assault on the Palestinian city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip. Blinken met one-on-one with Netanyahu during a …

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By Harold Isaac and Ralph Tedy Erol PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -Attacks, including a shooting that left a gang leader dead, flared in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, on Thursday as political groups appeared nearer to finalizing a transition council to take over from an absent government. A police operation killed the head of the Delmas 95 gang, Ernst …

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By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – There definitely were no muppets during the Permian Period, but there was a Kermit – or at least a forerunner of modern amphibians that has been named after the celebrity frog. Scientists on Thursday described the fossilized skull of a creature called Kermitops gratus that lived in what is …

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