By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Interior Department on Tuesday approved the construction of a 704 megawatt (MW) wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island, the fourth offshore wind project the agency has greenlighted as the Biden administration targets bringing 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power online by 2030. The Revolution Wind …
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By Mitch Phillips BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Sha’Carri Richardson finally delivered on three years of promise when the American overcame the challenge of being stuck out in lane nine by delivering a late surge to win world 100 metres gold in a championship record 10.65 seconds on Monday. The 23-year-old Richardson came through in the last 20 …
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By Anirudh Saligrama and Kyaw Soe Oo (Reuters) -Three people suffered serious injuries in a shooting incident at a mall in Edmonton, the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta, city police said on Monday in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. The victims of Monday’s incident at the West Edmonton mall have …
(Reuters) -Cambodia’s newly elected parliament endorsed four-star military general Hun Manet as prime minister on Tuesday, completing a historic transfer of power in a fast-changing country led by his father Hun Sen for nearly four decades. The Western-educated Hun Manet, 45, had the overwhelming backing of a National Assembly dominated by his Cambodian People’s Party …
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By Jonathan Allen NAPILI-HONOKOWAI, Hawaii (Reuters) – Tim Laborte returned to his native Maui on Saturday, bringing a backpack full of posters with pictures of his stepfather and a fragile hope that he might still be found alive after going missing in the wildfires that razed a historic Hawaiian town. “Where can I put up …
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By Alexandra Valencia and Julia Symmes Cobb QUITO (Reuters) -Leftist Luisa Gonzalez and banana industry heir Daniel Noboa will battle for Ecuador’s presidency in an October runoff after finishing in the top two in Sunday’s first round, as voters’ pocketbook concerns loomed at least as large as worries about violence in a campaign darkened by …
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By Sofia Menchu and Diego Oré GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – Guatemala’s Bernardo Arevalo, who won Sunday’s presidential run-off by double-digits, is looking to retrace his father’s footsteps more than 70 years after Arevalo senior broke a long period of dictatorship to become the country’s first democratically elected president. Juan Jose Arevalo was a reformer whose …
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(Correct premier’s first name to David in paragraph 3) By Chris Helgren and Nia Williams KELOWNA, British Columbia (Reuters) -Forest fires in Canada’s western province of British Columbia intensified on Saturday, with the number of people under evacuation orders doubling from a day earlier, as authorities warned of difficult days ahead. The province declared a …
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DUBAI (Reuters) – The process of releasing U.S. prisoners held in Iran will take up to two months, Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said on Monday during a press conference. “A specific time frame has been announced by relevant authorities, and it will take a maximum of two months for this process to take …
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By Alexandra Valencia and Julia Symmes Cobb QUITO (Reuters) -Ecuadoreans were voting on Sunday to choose a president and legislature they hope will lead the country out of a spiral of violence and economic troubles after a campaign darkened by bloodshed. Candidates have pledged to fight sharp increases in crime, which the current government blames …
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