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Colombia to spend $4.25 billion to buy land for poor farmers
By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's leftist government will spend $4.25 billion to buy some 1.5 million hectares (3.7 million acres) of land for poor farmers or displaced people, as par...
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Ukraine’s Zelenskiy and Dutch PM visit Odesa, agree to boost air defence
ODESA, Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, visiting the Black Sea port of Odesa, vowed on Friday to improve Ukraine's air defences and to i...
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IMF says recent El Salvador mission was ‘very productive’
By Jorgelina do Rosario and Rodrigo Campos MARRAKECH, Morocco (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund's engagement with El Salvador has been "very productive" following a recent visit from a negot...
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Seismologists detected blast-like waves near broken Baltic Sea pipeline
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Nordic and Baltic seismologists said that they had detected blast-like waves on Sunday when a Baltic Sea gas pipeline ruptured but that the data was not strong enough to determi...
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Putin says calls for Leningrad-style siege of Gaza unacceptable
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday said that calls to impose a blockade of Gaza similar to Nazi Germany's siege of Leningrad during World War Two were unacceptable and calle...
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Saudi Arabia puts Israel deal on ice amid war, engages with Iran, sources say
By Aziz El Yaakoubi and Parisa Hafezi RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia is putting U.S.-backed plans to normalise ties with Israel on ice, two sources familiar with Riyadh's thinking said, signalling a ...
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Mexico president: Colombia’s Petro to join migrants summit as numbers surge
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador confirmed his Colombian counterpart Gustavo Petro's attendance at a regional summit later this month where participants will disc...
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Afghan earthquakes death toll revised to ‘over 1,000’ from over 2,400 by Taliban-run ministry
By Mohammad Yunus Yawar KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's disaster management ministry on Friday revised downward the death toll from multiple earthquakes to around 1,000 from an earlier figure of over ...
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West Bank Palestinians across political divides march in solidarity with Gaza
By Yosri Al Jamal and Ali Sawafta HEBRON, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli security forces killed nine Palestinians and wounded dozens in confrontations across the West Bank on Friday, the Palestinian he...
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Twenty arrested in Hong Kong over false document pension withdrawals amid row over UK passport
By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's anti-corruption agency said on Friday 20 people had been arrested suspected of taking bribes to help people apply for early withdrawal of government pe...
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