By Ted Hesson and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON, July 11 (Reuters) – The United States will renew but not expand Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelans in the country, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on Monday, a move that leaves tens of thousands of recently arrived Venezuelans without access to the humanitarian program. […]

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TOKYO, July 12 (Reuters) – The U.S. dollar hit a fresh two-decade peak versus major peers on Tuesday, hoisted by safety bids and expectations of further aggressive rate hikes by the Federal Reserve, while the euro was pinned close to a 20-year low near parity to the greenback. The dollar index , a measure against […]

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By Vanessa Buschschlüter BBC News   At least 10 people have been killed in an operation by the Colombian security forces targeting a group of rebels who rejected the 2016 peace deal. The joint police and military operation was targeting a man known as Iván Mordisco, who leads a breakaway faction of the Revolutionary Armed […]

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Trending | View in Browser July 11, 2022 Here is today’s selection of top stories from The Associated Press at this hour to begin your day.  Today’s Headlines Trump associates’ ties to extremists probed by Jan. 6 panel After members of the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6, 2021, […]

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  By Santana Salmon Haiti is marking the first anniversary of the July 7, 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moise with two days of street protest and fears that the investigation into his death would remain stalled. “I do not see this file progressing during the period of political transition. When the people are back […]

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Man recaptured hours after fleeing isolation facility GLEANER- The monkeypox patient who yesterday fled the May Pen Hospital, where he was under mandatory isolation in Clarendon, could face criminal charges for breaches of the Quarantine Act. The man was subsequently found and returned to the hospital hours… The monkeypox patient who yesterday fled the May […]

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By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) Four Border Patrol agents involved in an aggressive confrontation with Haitian migrants last year near Del Rio, Texas, were referred for discipline and are on administrative duties after a months-long investigation, senior US Customs and Border Protection officials said Friday. The incident garnered national attention last September when photos surfaced […]

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MEXICO CITY, July 8 (Reuters) – A video claiming to be from Mexico’s powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) circulated on social media on Friday, urging that fighting be kept between criminal groups and avoid innocents. Two Jesuit priests and a tour guide were killed last month in a suspected run-in with a wanted drug […]

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SAO PAULO, July 10 (Reuters) – A local official from Brazil’s leftist opposition Workers’ Party (PT) was shot dead on Saturday by a federal prison guard shouting support for right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, according to a state civil police report and a witness. Marcelo Arruda, a municipal guard and PT official, was celebrating his birthday […]

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  (Reuters) – The dollar’s 12% year-to-date rise has raised global concern, and will surely be debated when G20 policymakers meet on July 15-16. All the more so, if it vaults to parity against the euro for the first time in 20 years. British politics, Chinese lockdowns, U.S. banks’ results and central bank hawks also […]

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