CAIRO (Reuters) -Egypt will host an international summit in the Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday to finalise an agreement aimed at ending the war in Gaza, an Egyptian presidential spokesperson said on Saturday. The summit will be attended by more than 20 leaders, including U.S. President Donald Trump, the spokesperson added …
DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran welcomes a potential “fair and balanced” U.S. nuclear proposal, but Tehran has not received any proposal for negotiations, the country’s top diplomat said on Saturday. “If we receive a reasonable, balanced, and fair proposal from the Americans for negotiations, we will certainly consider it,” Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi told state television. However, …
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(Reuters) -Iran described on Saturday the possibility, suggested by U.S. President Donald Trump, that it could normalise relations with Israel as “wishful thinking.” Late last month, Trump said: “Who knows, maybe even Iran can get in there,” referring to the Abraham Accords — a peace agreement signed during Trump’s first term under which Israel normalised …
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By Marc Frank HAVANA (Reuters) -Cuba’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday said U.S. claims that its troops were fighting in Ukraine were unfounded, and released for the first time information on legal proceedings against Cubans for mercenary activity in the war in Eastern Europe. Communist Cuba has openly sided with its ally Russia in the conflict …
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By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Pentagon announced on Friday it is establishing a new counter-narcotics joint task force overseeing operations in Latin America, a move aimed to strengthen already intensifying military operations that have raised questions among legal experts. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the task force aimed “to crush the cartels, stop the …
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GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) -Guatemala’s IGM migration authority said late on Friday it had received a first flight from the U.S. carrying foreign migrants returned from the United States, as well as Guatemalan citizens. The flight carried three Hondurans and 56 Guatemalans, it said. It said the Hondurans had been taken to a migration center before …
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Heavy rainfall in Mexico has left at least 27 people dead and more missing, authorities said on Friday, as downpours triggered several landslides, cut off power in some municipalities and caused rivers to burst their banks. Civil protection authorities in Hidalgo state reported 16 deaths and said at least 1,000 homes and …
By Trevor Hunnicutt, Gram Slattery and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump was found to be in “exceptional health” in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president’s doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his “cardiac age” 14 years younger than in “chronological age.” Trump, 79, was the oldest person …
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(Reuters) -The United States on Friday threatened to use visa restrictions and sanctions to retaliate against nations that vote in favor of a plan put forward by a United Nations agency to reduce planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from ocean shipping. U.N. member nations are scheduled to vote next week on the International Maritime Organization’s Net-Zero …
(Reuters) -Multiple people were killed after an explosion on Friday at a military explosives plant in Tennessee, and 19 people were unaccounted for, officials said. Here are some notable fatal industrial explosions in the United States this century: BP TEXAS CITY REFINERY, 2005 Fifteen workers were killed and 180 injured in an explosion at a …
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