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U.S. drone sale to Ukraine hits snag – sources
By Mike Stone ST LOUIS, Missouri (Reuters) - The Biden administration's plan to sell four large, armable drones to Ukraine has been paused on the fear its sophisticated surveillance equipment might fa...
Jun 17, 2022
U.S. removes nephew of Venezuela’s first lady from sanctions list
(Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department has removed a former Venezuelan national treasurer and nephew of the country's first lady from its sanctions list, it said on Friday. The Treasury's Office of ...
Jun 17, 2022
Retired priest, 92, charged with indecent assault after Canadian residential school probe
By Jenna Zucker (Reuters) - A retired priest has been charged with indecent assault following a decade-long investigation into a residential school in Manitoba, Canadian police said on Friday. Arthur ...
Jun 17, 2022
Canada seeks to prosecute some extremely intoxicated people who harm others
By Anna Mehler Paperny and Ismail Shakil TORONTO (Reuters) -Canada's federal government introduced a bill on Friday to hold some people criminally responsible if they harm someone else while extremely...
Jun 17, 2022
Jamaica top court sides with challenge to detentions under states of emergency
By Kate Chappell KINGSTON (Reuters) - Jamaica's top court on Friday said authorities violated a man's human rights by detaining and holding him for months without trial under a 2018 state of emergency...
Jun 17, 2022
Britain’s Boris Johnson meets Zelenskiy on surprise Kyiv trip
KYIV (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson offered to launch a military training programme for Ukrainian forces on Friday as he met President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv on his second trip ...
Jun 17, 2022
Biden won’t meet Saudi crown prince, says talks part of broader meeting
By Andrea Shalal and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden said on Friday he was not going to have a meeting with Saudi Arabia's de facto leader Mohammed bin Salman during a tr...
Jun 17, 2022
Tunisian court sentences lawyer who opposes president to jail, imposes job ban
By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) - A Tunisian military appeal court on Friday sentenced Seifeddine Makhlouf, a lawyer and prominent opponent of President Kais Saied, to a year in jail and banned him fro...
Jun 17, 2022
Gangs not implicated in Amazon murders, Brazil police say; indigenous group rejects that
By Gabriel Araujo SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's federal police said Friday that the investigation into the murders of a British journalist and a Brazilian indigenous expert in the Amazon rainforest s...
Jun 17, 2022
‘I couldn’t be party to potential law-breaking’ – Boris Johnson’s former ethics adviser explains resignation
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's former ethics adviser said on Friday he resigned his post because he "could not be a party to advising on any potential law-breaking". In a le...
Jun 17, 2022
