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By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) – The United Nations Secretary General and aid agencies working in Gaza have condemned Israel’s air strike on an ambulance on Friday, which the Israeli military said, without showing evidence, was carrying Hamas militants. The Health Ministry, a hospital director and the Palestinian Red Crescent Society in the Hamas-controlled enclave …

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MADRID (Reuters) – More than 500 migrants were rescued in the Atlantic Ocean off Spain’s Canary Islands, the Spanish coastguard said on Saturday, as the number of people arriving on the archipelago so far this year neared an all-time record posted in 2006. The coastguard said they had also found two dead bodies among those …

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SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) -El Salvador’s electoral tribunal on Friday approved President Nayib Bukele’s candidacy in next year’s presidential election, where he will seek a second term that would keep him in office until 2029 if reelected. The decision comes a week after the 42-year-old president formally filed paperwork to run for re-election, despite concerns over …

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By Joseph White and David Shepardson DETROIT/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Leaders of the United Auto Workers signaled the next step in their campaign to capitalize on the union’s success in bargaining with the Detroit Three: launching organizing drives at Toyota, Tesla and other nonunion U.S. auto factories. “What could @Toyota workers win if they joined the #StandUpUAW …

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By Simon Lewis and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday said he would discuss during a trip to Israel “concrete steps” that should be taken to minimize harm to Gaza civilians amid mounting alarm over soaring casualties in Israel’s bombardment of the enclave. Speaking to reporters before departing on …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Chilean President Gabriel Boric, who this week condemned Israel’s military operations in Gaza and recalled his envoy to Israel, on Thursday said he planned to discuss some “really hard” global issues with President Joe Biden in Washington. Boric, speaking at the start of an Oval Office meeting with Biden, did not mention …

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By Paul Sandle and David Shepardson BLETCHLEY PARK, England/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States will launch a AI safety institute to evaluate known and emerging risks of so-called “frontier” artificial intelligence models, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo said on Wednesday. “I will almost certainly be calling on many of you in the audience who are in …

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