By Mircely Guanipa LAS TEJERIAS, Venezuela (Reuters) – Hundreds of Venezuelans roamed the streets of Las Tejerias on Tuesday, digging and searching for missing relatives after devastating floods swept through the town over the weekend, leaving many wondering where they would now live. “I want them to give me a house for my children because …
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By Timour Azhari and Maayan Lubell BEIRUT/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Lebanon and Israel have reached a historic agreement demarcating a disputed maritime border between them after years of U.S.-mediated negotiations, officials said on Tuesday. While limited in scope, a finalised deal would mark a significant compromise between neighbours with a history of war and hostility, opening the …
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany will discuss the United States’ Inflation Reduction Act with Washington to address competition concerns, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Tuesday. Germany must cooperate with other countries to prevent “a massive customs war between all kinds of countries”, Scholz told industry representatives at an engineering conference in Berlin. (This story has …
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By Tim Hepher and Yiming Woo PARIS (Reuters) -A French criminal court opened the historic manslaughter trial of Air France and planemaker Airbus on Monday, with angry relatives demanding justice 13 years after an A330 jetliner ploughed into the Atlantic, killing all on board. The heads of both companies pleaded not guilty to “involuntary manslaughter” …
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentine President Alberto Fernandez on Monday again reshuffled his Cabinet and appointed three women to lead the labor, social development and women’s ministries, as a deep economic crisis has sparked weeks of protests. Federal lawmaker Victoria Tolosa Paz will replace Juan Zabaleta in the social development ministry, while Raquel Olmos, economist …
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By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s security forces will keep up their offensive against drug traffickers and illegal armed groups, even as President Gustavo Petro pushes for “total peace” in the Andean country, Defense Minister Ivan Velasquez told Reuters. Petro, who took office in August as Colombia’s first left-wing president, has outlined plans …
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KYIV (Reuters) – The external power supply to the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant was restored on Sunday, Ukraine’s state nuclear company Energoatom and the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog said. The plant, which is in cold shutdown, lost its last remaining power line early on Saturday due to shelling, and had to use back-up diesel generators for …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – German police said it had not excluded political motives in the suspected sabotage of communication cables on Germany’s rail network on Saturday but that there was no sign of any involvement by a foreign state or terrorism. A spokesperson for the Berlin criminal police bureau said on Sunday that it was still …
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By Thiam Ndiaga and Anne Mimault OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – Thousands of mourners gathered in Burkina Faso’s capital on Saturday for the funeral of 27 soldiers killed in an ambush last month that triggered the country’s second coup this year led by a military unit fed up with rampant insecurity. The coffins were wrapped in the …
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By Ali Sawafta JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) – Israeli forces killed two Palestinian teens on Saturday in clashes that erupted during an arrest raid in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials said, and two Israelis were badly wounded in a shooting attack in Jerusalem, police said. Israeli police described the shooting, at the Palestinian refugee …
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