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Costa Rica’s court seeks to strip President Chaves’ immunity over corruption case
International 07/01/2025Costa Rica’s Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the country’s legislature to strip President Rodrigo Chaves of his legal immunity so he can stand trial on corruption charges. Chaves, accused of awarding lucrative consulting contracts to a clo...
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Nations react to US strikes on Iran with many calling for diplomacy
International 06/22/2025Several close U.S. allies urged a return to the negotiating table in the wake of American strikes on Iran that fueled fears of a wider conflict, while noting the threat posed by Tehran’s nuclear program. Some countries and groups in the region,...
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Cuban exiles were shielded from deportation. Now Trump is cracking down
International 05/26/2025Immigration officials said Tomás Hernández worked in high-level posts for Cuba’s foreign intelligence agency for decades before migrating to the United States to pursue the American dream.The 71-year-old was detained by federal ag...
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Meta says it will resume AI training with public content from European users
International 04/14/2025Social media company Meta said Monday that it will start using publicly available content from European users to train its artificial intelligence models, resuming work put on hold last year after activists raised concerns about data privacy.The comp...
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Korea’s truth commission says government responsible for fraud in foreign adoptions
International 03/26/2025South Korea’s truth commission concluded the government bears responsibility for facilitating a foreign adoption program rife with fraud and abuse, driven by efforts to reduce welfare costs and enabled by private agencies that often manipulated...
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Mexico says it will impose retaliatory tariffs on US with details coming Sunday
International 03/04/2025Mexico’s president said Tuesday the country will respond to the 25% tariffs imposed by the United States with retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods, with details to come.Mexico will announce the targeted products and other measures Sunday at an eve...
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US strikes a deal with Ukraine that includes access to its rare earth minerals
International 02/26/2025Ukraine and the U.S. have reached an agreement on a framework for a broad economic deal that would include access to Ukraine’s rare earth minerals, three senior Ukrainian officials said Tuesday.The officials, who were familiar with the matter, ...
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Trump’s tariffs expose Ukraine’s steel industry to another war
International 02/17/2025The steel mill in a partially occupied region of Ukraine is a dystopian maze of flames, chutes and tentacled pipes, vast enough to be a small city. Thunderous blazes of sparks flash above the open furnaces where workers smelt iron ore into streams of...
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Pakistani court sentences 4 people to death for blasphemy
International 01/25/2025A Pakistani court Saturday sentenced four people to death for blasphemy, allegedly because they posted sacrilegious material on social media about Islamic religious figures and the Quran. Their lawyer said appeal preparations are underway.Under the c...
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South Korea’s Yoon defends his martial law decree in his first public appearance
International 01/23/2025South Korea’s impeached president denied Tuesday that he ordered the military to drag lawmakers out of the National Assembly to prevent them from voting to reject his martial law decree last month, as he appeared for the first time before the C...
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South Korean leaders seek calm after Yoon is impeached
International 12/16/2024South Korea’s opposition leader offered Sunday to work with the government to ease the political tumult as officials sought to reassure allies and markets, a day after the opposition-controlled parliament voted to impeach conservative President...
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Chinese leaders pledge ‘moderately loose’ monetary policy
International 12/09/2024China’s top leaders have pledged to loosen monetary policy and provide more support for the slowing economy, while Premier Li Qiang swiped at threats of higher tariffs on Chinese exports, saying they hinder global growth. Shares in Hong Kong ju...