By Frank Pingue (Reuters) – Aja Evans, a 2014 Olympic bobsled bronze medalist, has filed a lawsuit alleging that a doctor who worked on Team USA’s medical staff subjected her to nearly a decade of sexual abuse and harassment during treatment. The doctor, Jonathan Wilhelm, a chiropractor who resides in Montana, as well as the …
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(Reuters) – A close aide to Jair Bolsonaro told police the former Brazilian president met senior military officers last year to discuss a military intervention to overturn the election result after he lost, newspaper O Globo and news website UOL reported on Thursday. Bolsonaro’s former aide, Mauro Cid, agreed this month to cooperate with Federal …
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By Isabel Woodford MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Some cargo trains run by Mexico’s Ferromex have restarted after they were halted following a spate of serious injuries and fatalities to migrants traveling on them, the rail operator’s parent company said on Wednesday. In a step Mexico’s president described as “unusual,” Ferromex issued a statement on Tuesday …
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By Steve Holland and Andrea Shalal NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, underscoring their shared commitment to shoring up democracy, launched an initiative on Wednesday to advance the rights of working people, a key focus for both leaders. Biden and Lula, speaking before a bilateral …
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By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday will hold their first face-to-face talks since Netanyahu took power in December, with topics expected to include a potential Israel-Saudi normalization deal and Iran. Biden had held off extending an invitation to Netanyahu out of concern about …
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(This Sept. 16 story has been corrected to say that the plane was a turbo-prop plane and not a jet in paragraph 1) By Steven Grattan SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Fourteen people on a small turbo-prop plane died when the plane crashed in Brazil’s northern Amazonas state on Saturday, the state’s governor said. The accident …
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By Humeyra Pamuk NEW YORK (Reuters) -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met for the first time in person on Tuesday, a milestone as two countries have been slowly improving ties strained by disputes over policies toward the Palestinians. The leaders, who held talks during the annual high-level United Nations General …
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JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) – Israeli troops killed a 19-year-old Palestinian during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, medics and residents said, as violence surged ahead of a first meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Joe Biden. Security in the West Bank, among areas where Palestinians seek statehood, …
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LIMA (Reuters) – Peruvian President Dina Boluarte said on Monday her government has declared a state of emergency in three districts hit by a spike in crime, a measure that allows the military to help enforce security. The emergency status was declared in the districts of San Juan de Lurigancho and San Martin de Porras, …
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DUBAI (Reuters) – The United States and Iran will each free five detainees under an exchange agreement that also involves the transfer of $6 billion unfrozen Iranian assets from South Korea. Following are the U.S. citizens imprisoned in Iran who will be released under the deal: SIAMAK NAMAZI Siamak Namazi, 51, a businessman with dual …
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