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TOKYO, (Reuters) – Honda 7267.T and Nissan 7201.T are in talks to merge by 2026, they said today, a historic pivot for Japan’s auto industry that underlines the threat Chinese EV makers now pose to the world’s long-dominant legacy car makers.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Days before he retires as chairman of the influential U.S.

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida,  (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump threatened to reassert U.S. control over the Panama Canal on Sunday, accusing Panama of charging excessive rates to use the Central American passage and drawing a sharp rebuke from Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino.

(NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Police arrested a man they said set a woman on fire while she appeared to be asleep on a New York City subway train yesterday morning, killing her.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Israel ordered the closure and evacuation yesterday of one of the last hospitals still partly functioning in a besieged area on the northern edge of the Gaza Strip, forcing medics to search for a way to bring hundreds of patients and staff to safety.

BELGRADE,  (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of people gathered in central Belgrade yesterday to protest against President Aleksandar Vucic and his ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), whom they blame for a railway station roof collapse last month that killed 15 people.

SAARISELKA, Finland, (Reuters) – Russia poses a bigger threat to European Union security than just defence as Moscow can use illegal immigration and other issues to undermine the bloc, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Sunday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress passed spending legislation early yesterday in a down-to-the wire burst of activity that will avert a destabilizing government shutdown ahead of the busy holiday travel season.

VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – Pope Francis yesterday again condemned Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, a day after an Israeli government minister publicly denounced the pontiff for suggesting the global community should study whether the military offensive there constitutes a genocide of the Palestinian people.

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida,  (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday accused Panama of charging excessive rates for use of the Panama Canal and said that if Panama did not manage the canal in an acceptable fashion, he would demand the U.S.

(Reuters) – Stellantis STLAM.MI has reversed its decision to lay off about 1,100 employees at an Ohio Jeep plant less than three weeks after the abrupt resignation of Chief Executive Carlos Tavares, the Franco-Italian automaker said late on Saturday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress passed spending legislation early today in a down-to-the wire burst of activity that will avert a destabilizing government shutdown ahead of the busy holiday travel season.

MAGDEBURG, Germany, (Reuters) – At least five people were killed in a car-ramming attack at a German Christmas market in the city of Magdeburg that also left more than 200 injured, officials said, and a Saudi man was arrested on suspicion of driving a car into the crowd.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation yesterday that would avert a midnight government shutdown, defying President-elect Donald Trump’s demand to also greenlight trillions of dollars in new debt.

(Reuters) – A driver rammed a car into a large crowd of revellers at a Christmas market in central Germany last evening, killing at least two people and injuring more than 60 before he was arrested, authorities said.

WASHINGTON/DAMASCUS,  (Reuters) – Senior U.S. diplomats visiting Damascus on Friday met with Syria’s de-facto new ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa and held a “good” and “very productive” meeting with him about Syria’s political transition and decided to remove a bounty on his head.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – More than 700 people have been killed in al-Fashir in Sudan’s North Darfur state since May, the U.N.

MADRID,  (Reuters) – A Madrid court has sentenced former International Monetary Fund chief Rodrigo Rato to almost five years in prison for corruption offences, the court said yesterday.

OTTAWA,  (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday looked set to lose power early next year after a key ally said he would move to bring down the minority Liberal government and trigger an election.

(Reuters) – Wells Fargo WFC.N has withdrawn from a group of global banks committed to curbing greenhouse gas emissions, increasing the number of high-profile firms exiting climate initiatives amid mounting political pressure.