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SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Approval of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s government has slightly fallen, roughly reaching the same level of its disapproval rate, according to a poll released on Thursday. The leftist president, who is in the second year of his third non-consecutive term, had an approval rate of 35% in a survey …

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By Daphne Psaledakis and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States will bring a U.N. draft resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and an Israel-Hamas hostage deal to a Security Council vote on Friday morning, a U.S. spokesperson said. The latest version of the draft resolution, seen by Reuters, says an “immediate and …

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By Humeyra Pamuk and Simon Lewis CAIRO (Reuters) -The United States and Saudi Arabia have made “good progress” in talks on normalising ties between the kingdom and Israel, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday without providing a timeline for concluding a deal. “I believe we can reach an agreement, which would present …

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(Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday said he met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and the kingdom’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and efforts to increase aid to Palestinians. Blinken began a tour of the Middle East on Wednesday. (Reporting by …

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(Reuters) -Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup Neuralink livestreamed on Wednesday its first patient implanted with a chip using his mind to play online chess. Noland Arbaugh, the 29-year-old patient who was paralyzed below the shoulder after a diving accident, played chess on his laptop and moved the cursor using the Neuralink device. The implant seeks to …

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(Reuters) -UnitedHealth Group said on Wednesday its unit Change Healthcare’s cloud-based services for handling medical claims were completely rebuilt and restored, about a month after a cybersecurity attack on the subsidiary crippled healthcare in the United States. Amazon’s cloud services for two of Change Healthcare’s applications were restored from backups and cleared by their cybersecurity …

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By Vivian Sequera and Mayela Armas CARACAS (Reuters) -Venezuela attorney general Tarek Saab said on Wednesday two people close to opposition candidate Maria Corina Machado had been arrested and seven others, including Machado’s right-hand Magalli Meda, have warrants out for their detention. The arrests are set to complicate an already-confused scenario ahead of the July …

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SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian prosecutors have charged Jair Renan Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, for alleged crimes including money laundering and falsifying documents for a bank loan, newspaper O Globo reported on Wednesday. Public prosecutors in Brazil’s federal district declined to comment on the case due to confidentiality rules. Reuters could not …

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