By Gabriella Borter KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) – Rachel Sweet joined dozens of rally goers in a Kansas City, Missouri union headquarters parking lot on a warm October Saturday, holding a sign that read “Yes on 3” and joining a call-and-response chant: “When women’s rights are under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight …
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese Premier Li Qiang has signed a decree of the State Council to unveil regulations on export control of so-called dual use items, which will take effect on Dec. 1, 2024, state news agency Xinhua said on Saturday. The regulations aim to improve transparency and standardization of export control policies and to …
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By Maayan Lubell and Maya Gebeily JERUSALEM/BEIRUT (Reuters) -The Israeli military said Hezbollah had fired dozens of rockets and several drones into northern Israel on Saturday killing one person, with one drone directed at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s holiday home, according to his spokesman. The volley came as health officials in the Gaza Strip …
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By Bianca Flowers and Disha Raychaudhuri ATLANTA, Georgia (Reuters) – Francisca Shaw said she knew something was deeply wrong as she was rushed into an emergency cesarean for the delivery of her third child, a daughter, at Seattle’s University of Washington Medical Center in 2015. “I remember I told my doctor when I was getting …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Tokyo police said on Saturday they had arrested a 49-year-old man who threw what appeared to be Molotov cocktails at the headquarters of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) earlier in the day. He also crashed his van into the security fence outside the prime minister’s office, which is close to the …
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico’s navy said on Friday it had arrested 23 people in its largest-ever drugs bust, seizing some 8.4 thousand kilograms of illicit cargo in an operation off the country’s southwestern Pacific coast. “This represents the largest quantity of drugs seized in a maritime operation, without precedent in the history of the institution,” …
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GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) -A Guatemalan judge on Friday ruled that jailed journalist Jose Zamora can leave prison and be held in house arrest after over 800 days behind bars. Zamora, a well-known journalist who founded the now-defunct elPeriodico newspaper and whose work has criticized successive governments, was arrested in July 2022 on money laundering charges. …
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By Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to visit the Amazon rainforest and meet Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva before they attend the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro in November, sources familiar with the negotiations told Reuters. Biden would stop in Manaus, the Amazon’s largest city, or in …
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – Beaches in Sydney re-opened on Saturday for swimmers after authorities cleared thousands of black pollution balls washed ashore, which testing found to be formed from chemicals similar to those in cosmetics and cleaning products. Around 2,000 of the mystery black balls, some golf ball-sized, had washed onto beaches across Sydney since Tuesday, …
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By Jonathan Allen (Reuters) – A man on death row in Texas who had expected to be executed on Thursday night is now set to testify next week before the state lawmakers who believe he may have been wrongly convicted of murdering his 2-year-old daughter and secured him an extraordinary reprieve. Robert Roberson, 56, had …
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