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Canada’s budget measures brighten funding prospects for critical miners

By Divya Rajagopal TORONTO (Reuters) – Canada’s move to expand the investment tax credit for mining companies to align it with policies in the United States is accelerating funding talks for critical miners, company executives told Reuters. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government proposed a 30% investment tax credit for expenses related to the exploration of …

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Israel hits Syria after rockets fired towards Golan Heights

By James Mackenzie JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli jets hit Syrian military targets on Sunday in response to rockets launched towards Israeli controlled territory overnight, Israel’s military said, as violence flared again following cross-border exchanges of fire during the week. State media in Syria reported explosions in the vicinity of the capital Damascus as Israel said …

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School’s transgender policy trumped teacher’s religious rights, U.S. court rules

By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – An Indiana high school did not break the law by allegedly forcing a music teacher to quit after he refused on religious grounds to use transgender students’ preferred names, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday. The rights of the teacher, John Kluge, to exercise his religious beliefs were outweighed …

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U.S. Senator Blumenthal fractures leg, to undergo ‘routine’ surgery

(Reuters) – Democratic U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal fractured his leg in a mishap at a University of Connecticut parade on Saturday and will undergo surgery this weekend, he said on Twitter. The U.S. Senate stands adjourned until April 17. If the surgery goes as planned, the 77-year-old Connecticut Senator should not miss any votes. “I …

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Lula’s government should revise Brazil’s mandatory spending constraints, says Haddad

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s government should revise the rules for increasing mandatory expenses and budget constraints before the end of the year, once reform of the tax system has been decided, Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said. “What we want to discuss, after the tax reform, is a rule that ends the chopping and changing, and …

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US judge suspends approval of mifepristone in latest abortion setback

By Brendan Pierson and Tom Hals (Reuters) -A U.S. judge in Texas on Friday suspended the two-decade-old approval of the abortion pill mifepristone while a legal challenge proceeds, dealing another setback to abortion rights in the United States. Adding to the volatile legal landscape around abortion, a federal judge in Washington state on Friday issued …

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Explainer-Texas judge suspends approval of abortion pill. What happens next?

By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in Amarillo, Texas on Friday suspended approval of the abortion pill mifepristone, which will essentially make sales of the pill illegal in the U.S., while a legal challenge proceeds. The legal battle over medication abortion is only beginning and could wend its way through multiple levels …

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Binance’s US arm struggles to find bank to take its customers’ cash- WSJ

(Reuters) -The U.S. arm of cryptocurrency exchange Binance is struggling to find a bank to handle its customers’ cash after the failure of Signature Bank last month, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the matter. Previously, the deposits were sent to either Signature Bank or Silvergate Capital Corp, both seen …

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U.S. to test faster asylum screenings for migrants crossing border illegally

By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration next week will begin testing faster asylum screenings for migrants caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, the Department of Homeland Security said on Saturday, part of preparations for the end of COVID-19 border restrictions in May. U.S. asylum officers will conduct initial asylum screenings for a …

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