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GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – New Guatemalan president Alejandro Giammattei on Friday declared a state of alert in two municipalities on the fringe of Guatemala City that have been plagued by … Read More

By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Chris Collins, a former U.S. congressman from New York who was an early backer of President Donald Trump, was sentenced to 26 months … Read More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former independent counsel Ken Starr and lawyer Alan Dershowitz will join U.S. President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial defense team led by White House counsel Pat Cipollone and … Read More

By John Whitesides WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders, stung by a feud with progressive ally Elizabeth Warren over gender and electability, released an ad aimed at women … Read More

By Simon Lewis and James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The best-laid plans of Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders were upended this week – and his campaign is struggling to get … Read More

BISSAU (Reuters) – The outcome of Guinea-Bissau’s presidential election was thrown into doubt on Friday after the Supreme Court called for a clarification of the tally hours after the electoral … Read More

By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s supreme leader threw his support behind the elite Revolutionary Guards in a rare sermon on Friday after their belated admission that they had … Read More

By Tessa Vikander and Moira Warburton VANCOUVER/TORONTO (Reuters) – Extraditing Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou to the United States based on American sanctions against Iran would set a dangerous … Read More

By Francois Murphy and Arshad Mohammed VIENNA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The central achievement of the Iran nuclear deal – keeping Tehran at arm’s length from nuclear weapons – is eroding. The … Read More

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Michigan’s Democratic governor has urged Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg to step up efforts to check hate speech on the social network and protect the security … Read More