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(Reuters) – An affordable housing crisis that is hurting the Canadian government’s popularity will take years to resolve, even if construction hits an 80-year high, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Saturday. Her comments were among the first by a senior member of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal administration to acknowledge the scale of the …

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BRASILIA (Reuters) – On his first trip to Cuba during his third term in office, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called the embargo imposed by the United States on the island “illegal” and denounced the island’s inclusion on the list of state sponsors of terrorism. Former U.S. President Donald Trump included the island …

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By Julia Symmes Cobb BOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombian artist Fernando Botero, whose sculptures and paintings of playful, rotund subjects in sometimes harrowing situations made him one of the world’s richest artists, has died at 91. Heralded as South America’s answer to Picasso, Botero also tackled violence and political topics, including Colombia’s internal conflicts, as well as …

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By Riham Alkousaa and David Stanway BERLIN (Reuters) – The Earth’s life-support systems are facing greater risks and uncertainties than ever before, with most major safety limits already crossed as a result of planet-wide human interventions, according to a scientific study released on Wednesday.     In a “health check” for the entire planet published in …

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By Victoria Klesty and Nerijus Adomaitis OSLO (Reuters) – Norway may become the first country to start commercial deep sea mining, if parliament approves a government proposal to open an offshore area larger than the United Kingdom, despite international calls for a global moratorium. Parliament is set to discuss the government’s bill this autumn. WHY …

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By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s camp and his political rivals have both been presented with proposals for judicial reform that could end a crisis tormenting Israel for months, the country’s president said on Wednesday. Netanyahu’s nationalist-religious coalition in January launched a campaign to overhaul Israel’s judiciary, sparking unprecedented protests, sending …

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(Reuters) – Russia has protested to Azerbaijan over comments it made about weekend regional elections in areas of Ukraine claimed by Moscow, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday. She also accused Armenia of making “unacceptable and harmful” statements that were damaging to the prospects for a peace settlement between Armenia and Azerbaijan over …

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By Josh Smith and Soo-hyang Choi SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast on Wednesday, just an hour before leader Kim Jong Un met President Vladimir Putin in Russia. It appeared to be the first launch to occur while Kim was abroad for a rare trip …

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