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Guatemala receives first flight from US with third-country migrants
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) -Guatemala's IGM migration authority said late on Friday it had received a first flight from the U.S. carrying foreign migrants returned from the United States, as well as Guatemalan citizens.
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Nobel Peace Prize rallies Venezuela's opposition, deepens Maduro's isolation
BOGOTA (Reuters) -Mariluz Palma, the head of Maria Corina Machado's Vente Venezuela political movement in Colombia, does not sleep much these days. She says she was up before dawn on Friday, browsing social media, when she saw the news that Machado had won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Heavy rains in Mexico leave nearly 30 dead
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Heavy rainfall in Mexico has left at least 27 people dead and more missing, authorities said on Friday, as downpours triggered several landslides, cut off power in some municipalities and caused rivers to burst their banks.
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North Korea holds military parade, shows off new intercontinental missile
SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw a large military parade displaying its new intercontinental ballistic missile in front of visiting international dignitaries, state media KCNA said on Saturday.
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Explainer-Why French PM faces immediate budget challenge
PARIS (Reuters) -French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu, freshly reappointed late on Friday days after resigning, faces an immediate test to deliver a 2026 budget bill by Monday to give it any chance of passing through a divided parliament by year-end.
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Hunger rising in Haiti, with nearly 6 million at risk by 2026
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -Haiti's food insecurity is expected to deepen by mid-2026, with around 6 million people projected to face critical hunger levels amid gang violence and economic collapse, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) said in a report published on Friday.
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Tsunami warnings canceled after quake hits off tip of South America
SANTIAGO (Reuters) -Emergency authorities on Friday withdrew a spate of tsunami warnings they briefly issued following a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck the Drake Passage, a stretch of water between the southern tip of South America and Antarctica.
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado revived Venezuela's opposition
(Reuters) -Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, a 58-year-old industrial engineer, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Over the past two years, she has reenergized a politically disengaged population after more than a decade of economic and social collapse.
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Who is Jose Jeri, the young president who inherits a troubled Peru?
LIMA (Reuters) -Peru's new president Jose Jeri, who vaulted into power late on Thursday after the sudden impeachment of his predecessor, is one of the youngest heads of state globally - and one who has already had a bumpy ride on his way to the top.
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White House lays off thousands of US government workers, blaming shutdown
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump on Friday blamed Democrats for his decision to lay off thousands of workers across the U.S. government as he followed through on his threat to cut the federal workforce during the government shutdown.
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Morocco's king urges speedy reforms to boost jobs, rural development
RABAT (Reuters) -King Mohammed VI of Morocco on Friday called for accelerating reforms to create jobs for young people, improve public services, and reduce regional inequalities by giving greater attention to the mountain and oasis regions.
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Guinea charges 60 over deadly gold mine riot
CONAKRY (Reuters) -Guinea has charged 60 people with arson, theft and murder after a deadly riot at the privately-owned Weily Mining firm in the northeastern gold-producing Siguiri region, prosecutors said on Friday.
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Zelenskiy says Russia waited for bad weather for attack on energy sites
(Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that Russia deliberately waited for bad weather before staging a vast attack on Ukraine's energy system, adding the conditions reduced the efficiency of air defences by between 20% and 30%.
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Burkina Faso refuses to receive foreigners deported from US
(Reuters) -Burkina Faso has said it rejected a proposal by the United States to take in foreigners being deported as part of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.
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Blast at Tennessee munitions plant leaves 19 missing, possibly dead
(Reuters) -Nineteen people were missing and possibly dead after a devastating explosion on Friday morning at a military explosives plant in Tennessee, officials said.
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Michelle Bolsonaro tamps down talk of 2026 Brazil run as husband awaits prison
SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Michelle Bolsonaro is waving off speculation that she is ready to run for office in place of her husband, former right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, after he was sentenced to 27 years in prison over a failed plot to overturn the 2022 election.
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Melania Trump says some children caught in Ukraine war returned to families after talks with Putin
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. first lady Melania Trump said she had secured an open line of communication with Russian President Vladimir Putin about repatriating children caught up in the Ukrainian war, and that some have been returned to their families with more to be reunited soon.
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Man wins appeal over conviction for burning Koran outside London's Turkish consulate
LONDON (Reuters) -A man found guilty of committing a religiously aggravated public order offence by setting fire to a copy of the Koran outside London's Turkish consulate had his conviction overturned on Friday in what supporters said was a victory for free speech.
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Afghan man found guilty of threat to kill Reform UK leader Farage in TikTok video
LONDON (Reuters) -An Afghan national was on Friday found guilty of making a threat in a TikTok video to kill Nigel Farage, the leader of the populist Reform UK party which leads opinion polls in Britain.
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Putin says 'no big deal' for Russia if US declines to extend nuclear warhead limits
MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russia was developing new strategic weapons and it would not be critical for Moscow if the United States declined to extend the warhead limits set out in a nuclear arms treaty that expires next year.
