By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress moved closer on Thursday to ending a months-long stalemate and voting on legislation to provide billions of dollars in security assistance …
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By Ivana Sekularac and Marko Djurica KRIVELJ, Serbia (Reuters) – Before dawn, 78-year-old Vukosava Radivojevic prepared breakfast for her husband then walked into her village in eastern Serbia to guard …
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By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The World Bank Group on Thursday unveiled a new goal to help countries deliver affordable healthcare to 1.5 billion people by 2030 by expanding …
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By Marc Jones, Simon Jessop, Jake Spring and Marcela Ayres LONDON/SAO PAULO (Reuters) -A political push to raise the first-ever “Amazonia Bond” has ramped up during talks to agree a …
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ROME (Reuters) -Italian police arrested last week a “most wanted” U.S. fugitive who was carrying three concealed knives in a crowded St Peter’s Square outside the Vatican, a judicial source …
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By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An effort to force TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell the social media app or face a ban in the U.S. was gaining steam …
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By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) – The World Health Organization and around 500 experts have agreed for the first time what it means for a disease to spread through the …
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Dengue cases have created an “emergency situation” in the Americas, although cases in hotspots Argentina and Brazil appear to have stabilized, the head of the Pan …
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By Liliana Salgado and Daniel Trotta PHOENIX (Reuters) -Democrats in the Arizona House of Representatives tried repeatedly to repeal an 1864 ban on abortion on Wednesday but failed to get …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration wants to keep gas prices within current ranges as the United States heads into its summer driving season, White House economic adviser Lael Brainard …
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By Luc Cohen, Tom Hals (Reuters) -After Donald Trump lost a last-ditch bid to delay the first-ever criminal trial of a former U.S. president, he lashed out at the New …
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By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits was unchanged at a low level last week, pointing to continued labor market strength …
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By Clark Mindock (Reuters) -Republican attorneys general from 25 states on Thursday sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to block rules intended to reduce planet-warming emissions from cars and light …
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(This April 17 story has been refiled to add the missing word ‘trust’ in paragraph 15) By Raphael Satter and Zeba Siddiqui WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Reformers had hoped that the …
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By David Brunnstrom and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Thursday announced new sanctions on Iran targeting its unmanned aerial vehicle production after its attack on Israel, …
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By Emma Farge and Catarina Demony GENEVA (Reuters) – France should repay billions of dollars in reparations to Haiti to cover a debt formerly enslaved people were forced to pay …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s Prince William returned to public duties on Thursday for the first time since his wife Kate revealed she was undergoing preventative chemotherapy for cancer. In a video …
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By Karen Freifeld WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. is further restricting Iran’s access to “low-level technology,” in response to Iran’s April 13 attack on Israel and its military support for …
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By Isabelle Yr Carlsson and Louise Rasmussen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Denmark’s Old Stock Exchange will be rebuilt after a devastating fire destroyed half the building and damaged much of the …
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By Leah Douglas (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Agency for International Development will distribute $1 billion in U.S. commodities to countries with high hunger rates, …
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By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. senators from both parties introduced legislation on Thursday to accelerate development of power plants run by nuclear fusion reactions, an emerging technology that …
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By Ted Hesson GOLDEN VALLEY, Arizona (Reuters) – A restrictive abortion ban revived in Arizona is providing a new opening for Democrats in the runup to the Nov. 5 election …
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Art conservators are assessing the damage to centuries-old paintings recovered from a blaze that destroyed Copenhagen’s Old Stock Exchange this week, the National Museum of Denmark said …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Commerce Department is scaling back export control requirements for Australia and the United Kingdom to foster defense trade under the three countries’ AUKUS security pact, reducing …
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By Abinaya V (Reuters) -Emergency services on the 911 telephone call line were restored late on Wednesday in parts of the United States, officials said, following a widespread outage across …