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By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombia will suspend its months-long ceasefire with the Estado Mayor Central (ECM) armed group in three provinces on Wednesday, a government decree said on Sunday, citing incidents of violence that broke the ceasefire. The EMC – founded by former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels …

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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told CNN on Sunday that U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s speech in which he urged new elections in Israel was “totally inappropriate.” In a speech on the Senate floor on Thursday, Schumer, a longtime supporter of Israel and the highest-ranking Jewish U.S. elected official, …

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BELGRADE/PODGORICA (Reuters) – Thousands of Russian citizens in Serbia and Montenegro voted on Sunday in their home nation’s presidential election, with many saying it was a symbolic gesture that would not impact President Vladimir Putin’s bid for another six-year term. The voters, mostly young and anti-Putin, waited in a long line to cast ballots at …

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By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Ari Rabinovitch CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he would keep on with the military campaign against Hamas in Gaza, where aid agencies say famine is looming, while ceasefire talks were set to resume. Netanyahu told a cabinet meeting that Israel would push into Rafah, the last …

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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro said on Saturday he does not fear being put on trial, one day after a police investigation revealed the far-right politician tried to co-op the country’s military chiefs in a coup plan to overturn his 2022 election defeat. Bolsonaro did not refer directly to the …

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By Humeyra Pamuk and Daphne Psaledakis VIENNA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Most of the nine people who will sit on Haiti’s political transition council have been named by the groups they represent, although a couple are still pending, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday. Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry announced on Monday he would step …

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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -The Islamist group Hamas on Friday criticized the “unilateral” designation by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of an ally and leading business figure as prime minister with a mandate to help reform the Palestinian Authority (PA) and rebuild Gaza. Mohammad Mustafa’s appointment comes after mounting pressure to overhaul the governing body …

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By Lisandra Paraguassu and Ricardo Brito BRASILIA (Reuters) – The former commanders of Brazil’s Army and Air Force told police investigators that President Jair Bolsonaro summoned them twice to meetings to discuss a possible coup d’état after his election defeat in 2022, according to their testimonies released on Friday by the Supreme Court. Their accounts …

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