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2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Honduras former President Juan Orlando Hernandez is escorted by members of the National Police and the Military Police after arriving to the Hernan Acosta Mejia Air Force Base for his extradition to the United States, to face a trial on drug t 2/2   PNDORA +0.27% Add to/Remove from Watchlist…

PHOENIX (AP) — Kari Lake asked for a show of hands.Who’s been canceled? Who’s lost friends? Has strained relations with family? Been indicted? Sued for defamation?“If your hand did not go up in any of that, then I do think you need to work a little harder. I really do,” Lake told an adoring crowd…

By Yimou Lee and Ben BlanchardTAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan seeks “peaceful coexistence” with China with free and unrestricted interaction but the island will be democratic for generations to come, President Tsai Ing-wen said in her last national day speech on Tuesday.Taiwan, claimed by China as its own territory, has come under increasing military and political pressure…

© Reuters. A person walks by the Department of Labor headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 13, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – Florida sued the Biden administration on Wednesday, accusing it of threatening to withhold more than $800 million of funding for transportation infrastructure because of a new state law that…

2/2 © Reuters. French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Catherine Colonna and German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock speak to the media before EU-Ukraine foreign ministers meeting, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine October 2, 2023. REUTERS/Valen 2/2 By Olena Harmash KYIV (Reuters) -EU foreign ministers convened in Kyiv for their first ever…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland said in an interview that aired Sunday that he would resign if asked by President Joe Biden to take action against Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump. But he doesn’t think he’ll be put in that position.“I am sure that that will not happen, but I would not do…

Russian President Vladimir Putin is making key decisions about the Ukraine war largely on his own, without input from his generals, analysts said in a report published last week.But while doing so, Putin has proven to be more cautious than expected, said the report from the US-based RAND Corporation.”Putin [is] making key decisions largely on…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) walks through the Senate subway on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 19, 2022. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The charges against Democratic Senator Bob Menendez will cost President Joe Biden one of his most effective allies in Congress as he rallies…

It is not just in Ukraine that Vladimir Putin’s dream of restoring Russia’s imperial greatness is collapsing before his eyes. The violence this week in the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh in the Caucasus provides yet further proof of Moscow’s inability to provide even a modicum of influence over a region that once formed a key…

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — The president of the Dominican Republic on Sunday defended his decision to close air, sea and land traffic with neighboring Haiti in their dispute over construction of a canal targeting a river that runs through both countries.President Luis Abinader said in a televised speech that the border closures begun…