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(Reuters) -Taylor Swift’s 12th studio album “The Life of a Showgirl” on Friday debuted to midnight Target runs, theater-release parties and glitzy pop-ups that lit up the United States, from New York to Los Angeles. “The Tortured Poets Department”, her last album, had opened at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and moved the equivalent …

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CAIRO (Reuters) -Hamas has handed over its response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s Gaza plan to the mediators, Al Jazeera reported on Friday, citing a source familiar with the matter. (Reporting by Yomna Ehab and Ahmed Tolba; Editing by Leslie Adler)

(Reuters) -United Nations experts on Friday urged Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s government to “clarify the fate and whereabouts” of more than 120 people who they said appeared to have been forcibly disappeared since authorities violently suppressed anti-government protests in 2018. The Geneva-based UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances said a wide range of …

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By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO (Reuters) -Canada this week updated its travel advisory for the United States, warning travelers with an “X” gender marker on their passports that they may not be allowed to enter the country. “While the Government of Canada issues passports with a ‘X’ gender identifier, it cannot guarantee your entry or …

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ANKARA (Reuters) -President Tayyip Erdogan told U.S. counterpart Donald Trump in a phone call on Friday that Turkey welcomed efforts to reach peace in the region, but that Israel must stop its attacks for efforts to be successful, the Turkish presidency said. Erdogan and Trump met at the White House last month for the first …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to meet with U.S President Donald Trump on Tuesday in Washington to discuss economic and security issues, Carney’s office said on Friday, as the two nations review a North American trade pact. Canada has been holding talks for months with the U.S. on a new economic and …

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