SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) – The last woman imprisoned in El Salvador on charges linked to abortion on Wednesday called for people in the Central American country to stop denouncing women who suffer obstetric emergencies, in her first public comments since her release. El Salvador has one of the most draconian abortion bans in the Americas, …
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QUITO (Reuters) – Ecuadorean prosecutor Cesar Suarez, who focused on pursuing organized trans-national crime in Guayas province, one of the country’s most violent areas and the site of an on-air attack on a television station last week, has been killed, the attorney general said on Wednesday. Suarez, who had been placed in charge of investigating …
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OSLO (Reuters) -Weather-related disruption at ports in northern Europe and the diversion of vessels away from the Red Sea are causing congestion at container terminals, A.P. Moller-Maersk said in an update to customers on Thursday. Maersk and other shipping groups have diverted vessels away from the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden following attacks …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Russia launched 33 drones and two missiles at Ukraine overnight, with air defences destroying 22 drones, the Ukrainian military said on Thursday. “The main areas of attack were the south and north. The Ukrainian Air Force and Defence Forces destroyed 22 enemy drones. Several more drones did not reach their targets,” Ukraine’s …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s foreign minister David Cameron will meet U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other leaders at the Word Economic Forum in Davos, the British government said on Wednesday. Cameron plans to reiterate Britain’s support for Ukraine and call for security and stability in the Middle East, the government said in a …
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By Elizabeth Pineau and Tassilo Hummel PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday announced a wide array of measures – from regulating children’s screen time to increasing parental leave payments – in a bid to reinvigorate a second mandate marred by his unpopularity and contested reforms. In a rare and lengthy news conference, Macron …
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By Kevin Yao BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s economy likely perked up slightly in the fourth quarter, enabling the government to hit its growth target after the previous year’s miss, but the outlook for 2024 remains shaky amid a protracted property slump and weak consumer confidence. Data on Wednesday (0200 GMT) is expected to show gross …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s position that it will not renounce using force to bring Taiwan under its control is aimed at foreign interference and a tiny number of separatists, but Taiwanese need to be disabused of “biases” against China, the government said on Wednesday. Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which won the presidential election on …
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By Jonathan Stempel and Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Fresh off a campaign victory in Iowa, Donald Trump sat in a New York courtroom on Tuesday to defend himself for a second time against charges that he defamed writer E. Jean Carroll after she accused him of raping her decades ago. Trump watched from …
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By Michelle Price and Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. banking industry urged the Federal Reserve Tuesday to completely redo a contentious new rule to hike bank capital, while a senior Fed official aired support for starting over. Comments on the “Basel Endgame” proposal were due on Tuesday, and the deadline led to bank industry …
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