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Republican Senator Graham calls Trump’s Jan. 6 pardons a ‘mistake’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senator Lindsey Graham, a longtime ally of Donald Trump, criticized on Sunday the president’s pardon of about 1,500 of his supporters who attacked the U.S.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senator Lindsey Graham, a longtime ally of Donald Trump, criticized on Sunday the president’s pardon of about 1,500 of his supporters who attacked the U.S.
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s prosecutors indicted impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol on Sunday on charges of leading an insurrection with his short-lived imposition of martial law on Dec.
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE/Cairo (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said Jordan and Egypt should take in Palestinians from war-ravaged Gaza, a suggestion rejected by Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that runs the enclave, and apparently rebuffed by the Jordanian foreign minister.
BEIRUT/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli forces killed 22 people in south Lebanon on Sunday as a deadline for their withdrawal passed and thousands of people tried to return to their homes in defiance of Israeli military orders, Lebanese authorities said.
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – The United States, France and Britain pressured Rwanda on Sunday over its support for rebels rapidly closing in on eastern Congo’s largest city, as government forces struggled to halt an offensive that has forced thousands of civilians to flee.
MINSK (Reuters) – Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko was on track to extend his 31-year rule with 87.6% of the vote in a presidential election on Sunday, according to an exit poll broadcast on state TV, after hurling defiance at the West and defending the jailing of dissidents.
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs plans to seek explanations from the U.S.
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE/Cairo (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said Jordan and Egypt should take more Palestinians from war-ravaged Gaza, a suggestion rejected by Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that runs the enclave, and apparently rebuffed by the Jordanian foreign minister.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department issued a “stop-work” order on Friday for all existing foreign assistance and paused new aid, according to a cable seen by Reuters, after President Donald Trump ordered a pause to review if aid allocation was aligned with his foreign policy.
SEOUL, (Reuters) – South Korea’s prosecutors indicted impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol today on charges of leading an insurrection with his short-lived imposition of martial law on Dec.
JERUSALEM/CAIRO/GAZA, (Reuters) – Hamas freed four female Israeli soldiers yesterday in exchange for 200 Palestinian prisoners, but a delay in freeing another hostage prompted Israel to block hundreds of thousands of Gazans from returning to the enclave’s bombed-out north.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. may place a “very big bounty” on the top leaders of the Taliban, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said yesteday, adding he was hearing that the Taliban held more American hostages than previously reported.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s late-night firing of inspectors general at multiple government agencies was criticized as illegal yesterday by Democrats and others and drew concern from at least one fellow Republican.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The Central Intelligence Agency has assessed that the COVID-19 pandemic is “more likely” to have emerged from a lab rather than from nature, an agency spokesperson said yesterday.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump has instructed the U.S. military to release a hold imposed by former President Joe Biden on the supply of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, a White House source told Reuters on Saturday.
(Reuters) – Congo has severed all diplomatic ties with Rwanda and South Africa said yesterday that nine of its peacekeepers had been killed amid a surge in fighting with Rwanda-backed rebels in mineral-rich eastern Congo.
TIRANA, (Reuters) – Albania will create a sovereign Muslim state in Tirana for the Bektashi religious order, along the lines of the Vatican in Rome, to preserve and promote religious tolerance, Prime Minister Edi Rama said yesterday.
JERUSALEM/CAIRO/GAZA, (Reuters) – The Palestinian militant movement Hamas released four female Israeli soldier hostages today, in return for 200 Palestinian prisoners, in keeping with a ceasefire agreement aimed at ending the 15-month-old war in Gaza.
WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico has refused a request from President Donald Trump’s administration to allow a U.S.
BRATISLAVA, (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of protesters thronged a central square in the Slovak capital yesterday, waving banners opposing Prime Minister Robert Fico’s policy shift closer to Russia, after tensions between the government and the opposition rose.
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