By Jorge Garcia and Sandra Stojanovic OLOWALU, Hawaii (Reuters) – Yadira Ulloa was pumping gas near the apartment building where she lived on the western side of Maui when the winds kicked up, blowing shingles off the roof and propelling the wildfire that would soon incinerate her town of Lahaina. The winds from a distant …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Moody’s Investors’ Service said on Tuesday that estimated insured losses from wildfires on Maui in Hawaii will be at least $1 billion. More than 2,000 structures were damaged or destroyed and more than 2,700 structures exposed, Moody’s said in a report, citing estimates from The Pacific Disaster Center and FEMA. With the …
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By Anna-Catherine Brigida BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s shock primary election leader Javier Milei, a radical libertarian economist, scored the largest share of the national vote with big wins in the provinces, breaking in some places decades of Peronist party domination. Milei took 30% of the national vote, ahead of the main conservative opposition bloc …
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By Nicolás Misculin, Eliana Raszewski and Candelaria Grimberg BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Argentine voters punished the country’s two main political forces in a primary election on Sunday, pushing a rock-singing libertarian outsider candidate into first place in a huge shake-up in the race towards presidential elections in October. With some 90% of ballots counted, far-right libertarian …
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By Ali Sawafta, James Mackenzie and Suleiman Al-Khalidi JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) – Sitting in a bullet-scarred building in the city of Jenin, two fighters from Islamic Jihad – a militant group funded by Iran – celebrated what they said was a victory for Palestinians over the biggest Israeli operation in the West Bank in …
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By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) -Agents from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) were meeting with Ecuadorean police and prosecutors on Sunday as part of a joint effort to uncover who was behind last week’s assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio. The killing of the 59-year-old in the closing days of the campaign has …
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DUBAI (Reuters) -An attack on a Shi’ite Muslim shrine in Iran’s southern city of Shiraz killed at least one person on Sunday, a local official told state TV, adding that one person had been arrested. Iranian state media earlier reported that at least four people had been killed in the attack. “It happened around 19:00 …
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BEIRUT (Reuters) – The Jordanian military on Sunday downed a drone carrying crystal meth that was flying into Jordanian territory from neighbouring Syria, the state news agency Petra reported. War-torn Syria has become a hub for a multi-billion-dollar drugs trade, with Jordan a main transit route to the oil-rich Gulf states for a Syrian-made amphetamine …
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(Reuters) – Damar Hamlin competed in the Buffalo Bills’ preseason opener on Saturday, marking the safety’s first taste of competitive action since he suffered a cardiac arrest during an NFL game in early January. After Buffalo scored a touchdown early in the first quarter of their home game versus the Indianapolis Colts, Hamlin came on …
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By Deena Beasley LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Baby Ben Kutschke was diagnosed at three months with spinal muscular atrophy, a rare inherited disorder which is the leading genetic cause of death in infancy globally. It leaves children too weak to walk, talk, swallow or even breathe. So when in 2021 his parents heard about Zolgensma …
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