(Reuters) – Members of two local unions at CNH Industrial NV factories in Wisconsin and Iowa reached an agreement over a new labor contract on Saturday, ending a strike that has been ongoing since last May, the United Auto Workers union said. The contract, which was voted on as an improved “last, best, and final …
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By Cheney Orr ATLANTA (Reuters) – A protest in Atlanta briefly turned violent on Saturday as demonstrators set a police car on fire and smashed windows of buildings. Marchers had gathered to protest the killing of an activist by law enforcement on Wednesday during a raid to clear the construction site of a public safety …
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Protests in Stockholm on Saturday against Turkey and Sweden’s bid to join NATO, including the burning of a copy of the Koran, sharply heightened tensions with Turkey at a time when the Nordic country needs Ankara’s backing to gain entry to the military alliance. “We condemn in the strongest possible terms the vile …
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By Marco Aquino and Fabian Cambero LIMA (Reuters) – Peruvian police arrested over 200 people accused of illegally entering the campus of a major Lima university, while authorities in Cusco shut the Incan citadel of Machu Picchu and the Inca trail as deadly anti-government protests spread nationwide. Dozens of Peruvians were injured after tensions flared …
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(Reuters) – All five inmates who had escaped a Missouri jail last week are in custody, police said on Saturday. One of the prisoners was arrested “without incident” in Missouri on Friday while the other four were located “hours later” in Ohio,” the St. Francois County Sheriff’s Department said Saturday in a statement on Facebook. …
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By Emily Rose TEL AVIV (Reuters) -Tens of thousands of Israelis joined demonstrations on Saturday against judicial reform plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government that protesters say will threaten democratic checks and balances on ministers by the courts. The plans, which the government says are needed to curb overreach by activist judges, have …
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By Sarah Kinosian MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Just after sunset on Thursday, February 10th, two men in a white Dodge Ram pickup pulled up in front of Heber Lopez Vasquez’s small radio studio in southern Mexico. One man got out, walked inside and shot the 42-year-old journalist dead. Lopez’s 12-year-old son Oscar, the only person …
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By Nandita Bose and Steve Holland REHOBOTH BEACH, De. (Reuters) -Ron Klain, President Joe Biden’s White House chief of staff, plans to leave his post in the coming weeks, sources familiar with the matter said on Saturday, a major changing of the guard. Klain has informed Biden of his plans, the sources said, confirming a …
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(Reuters) – White House Chief Of Staff Ron Klain is expected to step down in coming weeks in the most significant changing of the guard since Biden took office two years ago, the New York Times reported on Saturday. (Reporting by Maria Ponnezhath in Bengaluru; Editing by Nick Zieminski)
(Reuters) – Actor Jeremy Renner, who plays Hawkeye in the Marvel “Avengers” movies and was injured clearing snow, said on Saturday that he had broken more than 30 bones in the accident. Renner, 51, was hospitalized after being run over by a snow plow that was being used to dig out a car on his …
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