SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and U.S. President Donald Trump could meet in Malaysia in the coming days, Brazilian diplomatic sources told Reuters on Wednesday, as the countries navigate hefty tariffs imposed by Washington. O Globo newspaper reported late on Tuesday, citing sources, that a meeting between the two leaders …
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DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran will not return to negotiations with the United States as long as Washington makes “unreasonable demands,” the Iranian foreign minister said on Wednesday according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency. Tehran and Washington engaged in five rounds of indirect nuclear negotiations that ended with the 12-day air war in June in which …
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By Ece Toksabay and Jonathan Spicer ANKARA (Reuters) -Anxious to bolster its air power, Turkey has proposed to European partners and the U.S. ways it could swiftly obtain advanced fighter jets as it seeks to make up ground on regional rivals such as Israel, sources familiar with the talks say. NATO-member Turkey, which has the …
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By Nellie Peyton JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -A Cuban man deported by the Trump administration to the southern African country of Eswatini has started a hunger strike against his detention there, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Roberto Mosquera del Peral was among five third-country nationals deported from the U.S. to Eswatini in July. They have since been …
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(Corrects ‘infection’ to ‘disease’ in paragraph 5 to clarify what the inactivated polio vaccine protects against, whether dosed fully or fractionally) By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) -Eradicating polio is still possible despite significant funding cuts, global health officials said on Tuesday as they outlined how they will cope with the shortfall. The budget of the …
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By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran’s economy is at risk of simultaneous hyperinflation and severe recession, officials and analysts say, as clerical rulers scramble to preserve stability with limited room to manoeuvre after a snapback of U.N. sanctions. They followed a breakdown in talks to curb Iran’s disputed nuclear activity and its ballistic missile programme. …
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By Laurie Chen BEIJING (Reuters) -The elite Central Committee of China’s ruling Communist Party will undergo the highest personnel turnover since 2017 during a key meeting this week, after eight members who were top generals were expelled from the party on graft charges on Friday. The closed-door meeting, known as the Fourth Plenum, will discuss …
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HAVANA (Reuters) -A small group of Cuban musicians, together with the top U.S. diplomat in Cuba, paid homage in Havana to salsa icon Celia Cruz, who died in 2003 but would have celebrated her 100th birthday on Tuesday. The discreet ceremony, which took place in a Catholic church in central Havana, came after Cuba’s National …
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(Corrects paragraph 8 to say Trump “downplayed” Hamas’s killings, not “endorsed”) By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he had communicated to Hamas that the militant group must disarm or it will be forced to. On Monday, Hamas freed the last living Israeli hostages from Gaza, and Israel sent …
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By Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -U.S. Customs and Border Protection has processed nearly 24 million packages that would have received duty-free treatment since President Donald Trump ended the de minimis exemption on August 29, an agency spokesperson said on Tuesday. Nearly 1.4 billion packages entered U.S. under the de minimis exemption for packages valued …
