By Jeff Mason (Reuters) -U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris bluntly called out Israel on Sunday for not doing enough to ease a “humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza as the Biden administration faces increasing pressure to rein in its close ally while it wages war with Hamas militants. Harris, speaking in front of the Edmund Pettus Bridge …
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban will meet former U.S. President Donald Trump on March 8 in Florida, Orban’s press chief told Hungarian state news agency MTI late on Sunday. Last month nationalist Orban endorsed Trump’s bid to return to the U.S. presidency this year. “We hope the current president will go, and …
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PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -Haiti’s government declared a state of emergency on Sunday evening, following violent clashes in the capital that have damaged communications and led to two prison breaks as a major gang leader seeks to oust Prime Minister Ariel Henry. In order to restore order, the government has imposed with immediate effect a curfew throughout …
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BEIRUT (Reuters) – U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein is due to visit Beirut on Monday to continue diplomatic efforts aimed at de-escalating the conflict across the Lebanese-Israeli border and bringing stability, a senior Lebanese official said on Sunday. The Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah and Israel have locked in hostilities for months in parallel to the Gaza …
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By Simon Lewis, Humeyra Pamuk and Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) – From air drops of humanitarian aid to supply ships from Cyprus, the United States is urgently seeking ways to feed the people of Gaza as Israel resists Washington’s push for more aid access and U.S. efforts to broker a truce in the war test …
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By Kylie Madry and Maximilian Heath BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Argentine President Javier Milei vowed to “speed up” his plans to overhaul the country and solve its economic woes in a fiery speech to Congress on Friday, challenging them to pass a new package of bills after an earlier version of his “omnibus” reform was rebuffed …
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By Diego Oré and Adriana Barrera MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico’s presidential candidates started their campaigns on Friday for elections on June 2, with the ruling party candidate leading in a race poised to crown a woman to lead Latin America’s second-largest nation for the first time. Former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, running under a …
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By Walter Bianchi BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – All eyes were on Argentina’s combative libertarian President Javier Milei on Friday ahead of a prime time state-of-the-union style speech set for the evening opening of Congress, even as protests started to build on the streets and markets rallied. The outsider economist and former TV pundit, who wants …
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By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) -Iranians voted for a new parliament on Friday, seen as a test of the clerical establishment’s legitimacy at a time of growing frustration over economic woes and restrictions on political and social freedoms. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has called voting a religious duty, was the first to cast …
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(Reuters) -Brian Mulroney, the former Canadian prime minister who struck a free trade deal with the U.S. but whose legacy was marred by revelations of improper business dealings with an arms dealer, has died. Mulroney died peacefully surrounded by family, his daughter Caroline Mulroney posted on social media platform X on Thursday. He was 84. …
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