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By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) -Peru announced a nationwide state of emergency on Wednesday, granting police special powers and limiting freedoms including the right to assembly, after a week of …

By Paresh Dave OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) -A former Twitter Inc manager convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia by sharing user data several years ago and potentially exposing users to persecution …

(Reuters) -Twitter Inc suspended an account tracking its owner Elon Musk’s private jet in real-time, with the billionaire threatening legal action against the account’s operator after saying his son had …

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate late on Wednesday passed by voice vote a bill to bar federal employees from using Chinese-owned short video-sharing app TikTok on government-owned …

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A decision on whether the Afghan Taliban administration and the Myanmar junta can send a United Nations ambassador to New York has been …

By Jose Luis Gonzalez, Jackie Botts and Daina Beth Solomon CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) – Many of the hundreds of migrants who crossed the Rio Grande from Ciudad Juarez into …

By Steve Holland and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden marked the 10 years since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut on Wednesday by saying …

By Joe Bavier, Abdi Sheikh, Aditi Bhandari and Michael Ovaska MOGADISHU (Reuters) – In October, Nadifa Abdi Isak brought her malnourished daughters to hospital in Mogadishu. That day, a nurse …

By Makini Brice WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Survivors of mass shootings targeting U.S. LGBT nightclubs detailed the violence they endured and criticized inflammatory political rhetoric in a congressional hearing on Wednesday. …

By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Puerto Ricans could move a step closer to a referendum on whether the island should become a U.S. state, an independent country or have …

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -Iran was ousted from a United Nations women’s group on Wednesday for policies contrary to the rights of women and girls, a move proposed …

By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) -A San Francisco police officer testified on Wednesday that he witnessed the attack on U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband when the suspect in …

By Brendan O’Brien and Dan Whitcomb (Reuters) -The bodies of a mother and her young son were recovered on Wednesday hours after a tornado destroyed their home as it ripped …

By Sybille de La Hamaide and Clotaire Achi PARIS (Reuters) -Supporters poured into Paris’s freezing Champs-Elysees boulevard on Wednesday after a World Cup semi-final between France and Morocco which for …

HONG KONG (Reuters) – China Meheco Group Co Ltd said on Wednesday it signed an agreement with Pfizer Inc to import and distribute the U.S. drugmaker’s oral COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid …

MASSENA, N.Y. – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Port of Massena arrested a 33-year-old male Native American Indian who had an active New York State bench …

EL PASO, Texas – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at El Paso and Santa Teresa, New Mexico area ports of entry intercepted methamphetamine, cocaine, fentanyl and heroin in …

By Jake Spring and Gloria Dickie SAO PAULO/MONTREAL (Reuters) -Deforestation in Brazil’s Cerrado savanna rose to a seven-year high, government data showed on Wednesday, destroying a vital habitat for threatened …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is prepared to help China deal with a surge of COVID-19 infections if Beijing requests assistance, the White House said on Wednesday. John Kirby, …

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday he is “hopeful” that the COVID-19 pandemic will no longer be considered a global emergency …

By Ali Kucukgocmen ISTANBUL (Reuters) -A Turkish court sentenced Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu to jail on Wednesday and imposed a political ban on the opposition politician who is seen as …

RIGA (Reuters) – A majority in Latvia’s parliament on Wednesday voted to confirm the country’s proposed coalition government, allowing Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins to stay in power following his win …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Senate could give final approval by Thursday to a one-week extension of federal government funding before the midnight Friday deadline, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said …