HAVANA (Reuters) -Until recently, 26-year-old Cuban Alejandro Beltran was among a rare breed of Cubans with two left feet. That embarrassing predicament, he said, led him to seek out salsa dancing lessons with a fast-growing community program that aims to maintain Cuba’s reputation as Latin America’s salsa capital. “There’s a myth that all Cubans know …
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By Abhirup Roy and Akash Sriram SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -The profitability of Tesla’s so-called affordable new cars will be in focus when the electric vehicle maker reports quarterly results on Wednesday, and analysts think that thousands of dollars in cost cuts per vehicle will not be quite enough to protect profit margins. The Standard Model Y …
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By Andrea Shalal, Steve Holland and Ernest Scheyder WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese signed a critical minerals agreement aimed at countering China on Monday at a meeting marked by Trump’s jab at Australia’s envoy to the United States over past criticism. China loomed large at the first White …
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By Andrea Shalal and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he expects to reach a fair trade deal with Chinese President Xi Jinping and downplayed risks of a clash over the issue of Taiwan, even as his top trade negotiator accused Beijing of engaging in “economic coercion.” Trump suggested to …
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By Jeff Mason, Andy Sullivan and David Ljunggren ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday night he would raise tariffs on Colombia and stop all payments to the South American nation, escalating a feud that stems from the U.S. military’s strikes on vessels allegedly transporting drugs in the region. Earlier in …
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By Luis Jaime Acosta and Julia Symmes Cobb BOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombia said on Monday it has recalled its ambassador from Washington after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would raise tariffs on the South American nation and stop all payments to it, intensifying a feud stemming from U.S. military strikes on vessels allegedly transporting drugs. Trump …
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QUITO (Reuters) -Ecuador’s prosecutor’s office said on Monday it would not detain the Ecuadorean survivor of a U.S. military strike on a suspected drug-trafficking vessel in the Caribbean. The man, rescued by U.S. forces after the strike, arrived in Ecuador on Saturday and was released after the prosecutor’s office said there was no evidence of …
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By Lucinda Elliott and Monica Machicao LA PAZ (Reuters) -Centrist Rodrigo Paz won Bolivia’s presidential runoff on Sunday, defeating conservative rival Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga, as the country’s worst economic crisis in a generation helped propel the end of nearly two decades of leftist rule. Paz, a senator from the Christian Democratic Party, won 54.5% of …
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DUBAI (Reuters) -Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday rejected an offer of renewed talks from U.S. President Donald Trump and denied his assertion that the United States has destroyed Iran’s nuclear capabilities. Tehran and Washington engaged in five rounds of indirect nuclear negotiations that ended with the 12-day air war in June in …
(Reuters) -A tropical wave located over the eastern Caribbean Sea has a 90% chance of cyclone formation in the next 48 hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in its latest advisory on Monday. “A tropical depression or storm is now likely to form over the next day or two as it moves into the …
