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By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) -Two car explosions targeted at Ecuador’s prisons agency SNAI may have been set as a response to government security operations at prisons this week, President Guillermo Lasso and a top security official said on Thursday. The explosions overnight in the capital – one at a building formerly used by SNAI …

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By Amina Niasse NEW YORK (Reuters) – “Barbenheimer” – the twin-bill summer box office phenom – sure helped to drive U.S. consumers back to cinemas last month, but movie-going is still struggling to catch up to other recreational spending categories post-pandemic. Outlays for movie theater-going grew in July at an annualized rate of nearly 11% …

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(Reuters) – More than 280,000 homes and businesses were without power in Florida on Wednesday as hurricane Idalia slammed the state, according to data from PowerOutage.us. Hurricane Idalia slammed into the Big Bend region of Florida, where millions of residents had evacuated or hunkered down in anticipation of a dangerous surge of tidal water, but …

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By Natalia A. Ramos Miranda SANTIAGO (Reuters) – As Chile readies to mark 50 years since the 1973 coup against then President Salvador Allende, the country is increasingly asking a question about the thousands who disappeared in the years of military dictatorship that followed: “Where are they?”. The South American country is ramping up a …

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RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) -A Palestinian was killed in a rare clash between Palestinian security forces and gunmen in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, amid uncertainty over the future of Palestinian leadership that has widened internal rifts. Separately, Israeli police said a minor they suspected of carrying out a stabbing attack in Jerusalem was …

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By Erwin Seba HOUSTON (Reuters) – With Hurricane Idalia approaching, Florida authorities said on Tuesday that 17 Tampa-area gas stations supplied by Citgo Petroleum have been ordered to stop the sale of gasoline that had been contaminated by diesel fuel. Another eight gas stations have resumed normal operations after cleaning the contaminated fuel out of …

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OTTAWA (Reuters) – Organized cybercrime is set to pose a threat to Canada’s national security and economic prosperity over the next two years, the national signal intelligence agency said on Monday. The Communications Security Establishment (CSE) in a report identified Russia and Iran as cybercrime safe havens where criminals can operate against Western targets. Ransomware …

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By Jean Loobentz Cesar PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Hundreds of people are crammed into small white tents in the courtyard of a sports center in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, drying clothes on the access ramps and washing their children in small, plastic tubs. Some 8,730 people have been displaced around the heavily populated neighborhood of Carrefour-Feuilles, …

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By Ananta Agarwal (Reuters) – Publicly listed U.S. homebuilders are raising prices on new construction, taking advantage of an acute shortage of previously owned homes in the market as owners defer upgrading due to high mortgage rates. Homebuilders are enjoying this turn of events after a gnarly second-half last year, when fears of rising interest …

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