MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A Mexican court has authorized the United States to seize drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero’s assets in Mexico, the U.S. Justice Department said in a statement on Thursday. The ruling is the first use of a new asset forfeiture law that could strengthen cooperation between the two countries in their fight …
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By Eduardo Baptista and Martin Quin Pollard BEIJING (Reuters) – President Xi Jinping, conspicuously absent from the main stage of diplomacy during China’s COVID isolation, has been mostly smiles and handshakes on his return this week with a flurry of meetings that Beijing hopes will begin to mend frayed relations. But in an exchange that …
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DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran’s foreign minister on Thursday accused Israel and Western intelligence services of planning to divide the country gripped by anti-government protests and start a civil war, a day after seven people were killed in the southwestern city of Izeh in what state media presented as a “terrorist attack”. “Various security services, Israel and …
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By Simon Jessop and Fanny Brodersen SHARM EL-SHEIKH (Reuters) – The world’s multi-lateral banks have “demonstrably failed” low and middle income countries when climate disasters hit and need to better assess their vulnerability and resilience when offering support, the head of the Commonwealth told Reuters. Pressure on development finance institutions such as the World Bank …
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DUBAI (Reuters) – The United States Navy’s Fifth Fleet is aware of an incident taking place on Wednesday in the Gulf of Oman involving a commercial vessel, Commander Timothy Hawkins told Reuters. The Associated Press had reported that a Liberian-flagged oil tanker operated by the Singapore-based Eastern Pacific Shipping was struck in an exploding drone …
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Wednesday he was confident Britain and the United States could deepen their economic relationship but that he had not spoken specifically about a trade deal with U.S. President Joe Biden. At a G20 meeting, Sunak told a news conference that he had spoken …
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By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice will investigate whether police in Worcester, Massachusetts, have enforced the law in a discriminatory fashion and whether officers have used excessive force on a routine basis, the agency said on Tuesday. The justice department did not indicate any specific incidents in Worcester that may have …
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By Bogdan Kochubey KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday, without producing evidence, that Russian missiles had hit Poland, a NATO country, in what he called a “significant escalation” of the conflict. “Russian missiles hit Poland, the territory of our friendly country. People died,” Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address. Two people …
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By Kate Abnett and Gloria Dickie SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) – Government ministers and negotiators from nearly 200 countries on Tuesday began the hard work of finding common ground at the annual U.N. climate talks for a deal based on a sketched first outline in the hands of delegates at the summit in Egypt. Released …
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By Jake Spring SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) – The election of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as Brazil’s next president is already boosting the country’s credibility at this year’s U.N. climate negotiations, with the left-wing leader to participate in COP27 in Egypt on Wednesday. Lula defeated right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, who presided over mounting destruction …
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