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TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – The United States will send police to Honduran borders to train and support the Central American country’s authorities in immigration control, acting U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Chad … Read More

(Reuters) – U.S. health officials on Thursday reported 2 more deaths from a mysterious respiratory illness tied to vaping, taking the total death toll to 57. As of Jan. 7, … Read More

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia, a top source of coca, the base ingredient in cocaine, eradicated more than 100,000 hectares (247,000 acres) of the crop last year, President Ivan Duque said … Read More

By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump to restructure the United States’s top trade relationships have cost American companies $46 billion since February 2018, and … Read More

CAIRO (Reuters) – Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok visited the rebel bastion of Kauda in the South Kordofan region’s Nuba Mountains on Thursday, the first senior Khartoum official to travel … Read More

MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s government said on Thursday that Socialist lawmaker Maria Jesus Montero has been reappointed as budget minister as part of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s new cabinet. Montero … Read More

By Elena Rodriguez and Paola Luelmo MADRID (Reuters) – The Unidas Podemos alliance of hard-left parties will take on a deputy premiership and four ministries in Spain’s first coalition government … Read More

CAIRO – (Reuters) – Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani phoned British Prime minister Boris Johnson on Thursday to discuss ways to ensure security and stability in the region, … Read More

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Thursday urged the United States and Iran to avoid escalation and pursue “dialogue and self-restraint” to avert a wider conflict … Read More

By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate will move forward with its own legislative agenda next week, unless it receives articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump from … Read More