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SEOUL (Reuters) -An estimated 400,000 people gathered in South Korea’s capital Seoul on Saturday as fans from around the globe commemorated the 10th anniversary of the debut of K-Pop boy band juggernaut BTS. The band is on temporary break as a group with two of its seven members currently doing mandatory military service, but that …

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By Harold Isaac PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -As Haiti’s police struggle to contain powerful armed gangs, a disagreement between the Dominican Republic and Canada spilled out into the public on Friday, further complicating an international plan to boost Haiti’s outgunned police force. A day after Canada’s Foreign Minister Melanie Joly announced plans to set up a Canadian …

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(Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Defense began sending real-time satellite and sensor data to Canadian authorities on Friday, technology it said would help more quickly identify new fires as that nation endures one of its most destructive early wildfire seasons. The U.S. has already dispatched more than 600 firefighters to Canada to help battle …

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By Kylie Madry MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico will extend the deadline for cargo airlines to move operations from the capital’s main airport to a farther-away one following U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s visit to the country, Mexico’s transportation ministry said Friday. Earlier Friday, local outlet El Financiero had reported the deadline was moved to September, …

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(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on Friday it has advised manufacturers that are updating their COVID-19 vaccines to develop monovalent shots to target the XBB.1.5 subvariant. So-called monovalent, or single-target vaccines, would be a change from the most recent bivalent COVID boosters that targeted both the original and Omicron strains …

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OTTAWA (Reuters) -At least 15 people were killed in the Canadian prairie province of Manitoba on Thursday after a semi-trailer truck hit a vehicle normally used to carry elderly and disabled people, the Winnipeg Free Press newspaper said. The crash occurred near the town of Carberry in southwestern Manitoba, 170 km (105 miles) west of …

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By Bhanvi Satija and Sriparna Roy (Reuters) -Advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday unanimously recommended that updated COVID-19 shots being developed for a fall vaccination campaign target one of the currently dominant XBB coronavirus variants The panel voted 21-0 in favor of XBB-targeted shots and the committee’s discussion indicated that the …

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By Sofia Menchu GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) -A Guatemalan court on Wednesday sentenced Jose Zamora, a well-known journalist whose work has criticized successive governments, to six years in prison for money laundering in a case rights groups have branded an attack on free speech. Zamora was also issued a 300,000 quetzal ($38,339) fine, the court said. …

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