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Lebanon's parliament passes 2024 budget, shunning major reforms
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's parliament late on Friday passed an amended budget for 2024 that experts said neglected to include crucial reforms that would help the country emerge from a financial melt...
Thomson Reuters Jan 26, 2024
Colombia human rights ombudsman urges action to prevent fires
By Oliver Griffin BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's human rights ombudsman on Friday urged local authorities of high-risk areas where fires have not occurred to take preventative action, as 34 blazes cont...
Thomson Reuters Jan 26, 2024
Germany's Scholz says dark neo-Nazi networks are on the rise
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday voiced concern over the rise of extreme-right tendencies in his country 79 years after the Auschwitz extermination camp was liberated. "...
Thomson Reuters Jan 26, 2024
Ukraine's Zelenskiy announces second pro-business body after fury over banker's arrest
(Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy announced on Friday the creation of a second body to assist businesses in wartime after several entrepreneurs voiced outrage at the arrest of a prom...
Thomson Reuters Jan 26, 2024
Venezuela arrests allies of opposition candidate on conspiracy accusations
CARACAS (Reuters) - Three allies of Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Maria Corina Machado have been detained on accusations of conspiracy amid growing tensions between the government of Pr...
Thomson Reuters Jan 26, 2024
Canadian cardinal temporarily steps down after lawsuit alleging abuse
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Cardinal Gerald Lacroix, one of the top Roman Catholic clergymen in Canada, on Friday stepped down temporarily after he was named in a class-action lawsuit against the church that a...
Thomson Reuters Jan 26, 2024
North Korea, China agree to defend common interests as senior envoys meet
SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea and China agreed to strengthen tactical cooperation and defend common interests, the North's official KCNA news agency said on Saturday, reporting on Foreign Minister Choe...
Thomson Reuters Jan 26, 2024
Yemen's Houthi rebels escalate Red Sea attacks, hit Trafigura fuel tanker
CAIRO/HOUSTON (Reuters) - Yemen's Houthi rebels on Friday stepped up attacks on vessels transiting the Red Sea, including a hit on a fuel tanker operated on behalf of trading firm Trafigura that spark...
Thomson Reuters Jan 26, 2024
Cuba counts on Russians to boost still-ailing tourism sector in 2024
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba is counting on winter-weary Russians to help boost the Caribbean island nation's ailing tourism sector in 2024, according to the Cuban ambassador in Moscow, after a disappointi...
Thomson Reuters Jan 26, 2024
Trudeau aide: India is cooperating with Canada amid tensions over murdered Sikh
OTTAWA (Reuters) - India is cooperating with Canada amid tensions over the case of a Sikh separatist leader who was murdered in British Columbia last June, a senior government official told CTV in an ...
Thomson Reuters Jan 26, 2024

