PARIS (Reuters) -France summoned Iran’s ambassador on Friday to protest over the case of three of its citizens whose detention conditions the foreign ministry said were akin to torture. The ministry described the French nationals as “hostages of the state of the Islamic republic of Iran”. “Their situation is unbearable, with undignified detention conditions that, …
CIUDAD DE MÉXICO, 10 ene (Reuters) – El delantero César “Chino” Huerta se convirtió el viernes en el primer futbolista mexicano que jugará con el Anderlecht de Bélgica tras confirmarse su traspaso definitivo desde Pumas UNAM, informaron el viernes ambos clubes. El delantero, que ha sido seleccionado en 15 ocasiones, jugó para el club de …
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Greenland’s leader said on Friday he had not been in contact with incoming U.S. president Donald Trump, who has said he wants control over the Arctic island, and urged everyone to respect Greenland’s wish for independence. Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, said this week that U.S. control of Greenland, a …
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By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Vatican has approved new guidelines from Italian bishops that allow gay men to enter seminaries as long as they abstain from sex, in an unexpected adjustment to how the global Catholic Church considers possible future priests. Although the Vatican had not explicitly barred gay men from entering …
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By Maya Gebeily BEIRUT (Reuters) – Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on Friday that he had called for a moratorium on EU sanctions on Syria for six months or one year, but that a final decision could only come from the entire bloc. Speaking to reporters in Beirut after meeting Syria’s new leaders in …
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(This Jan. 9 story has been corrected to fix the pre-war population in paragraph 5) By Maggie Fick LONDON (Reuters) – An official Palestinian tally of direct deaths in the Israel-Hamas war likely undercounted the number of casualties by around 40% in the first nine months of the war as the Gaza Strip’s healthcare infrastructure …
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(Reuters) – Der umstrittene venezolanische Präsident Nicolás Maduro ist ungeachtet der monatelangen Auseinandersetzungen über seine Wahl für eine dritte sechsjährige Amtszeit vereidigt worden. “Möge diese neue Amtszeit eine Zeit des Friedens, des Wohlstands, der Gleichheit und der neuen Demokratie sein”, sagte der 62-Jährige bei der Zeremonie am Freitag im Parlament in Caracas. Seine erste Amtshandlung …
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By Nora Eckert and Kalea Hall DETROIT (Reuters) – Automaker Stellantis achieved its goal of cutting U.S. inventories by over 100,000 vehicles late last year, its North American chief said at the Detroit Auto Show Friday. Antonio Filosa, who has been leading the carmaker’s North American operations since last October, described its efforts to turn …
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By Clauda Tanios and Tala Ramadan DUBAI (Reuters) -Israeli warplanes bombed a power station and two ports in Houthi-controlled Yemen on Friday in retaliation for Houthi drone and missile strikes against Israel, and pro-Houthi media said at least one person had been killed and nine wounded. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Iran-backed Houthi …
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Por Timothy Gardner y Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON, 10 ene (Reuters) -El Gobierno de Joe Biden impuso el viernes su paquete de sanciones más amplio hasta la fecha, dirigido contra los ingresos de Rusia por petróleo y gas, en un intento de dar a Kiev y al Gobierno entrante de Donald Trump un impulso para alcanzar …
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