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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – More than 2,000 Palestinian Americans have traveled into or through Israel since it eased conditions for them at border crossings as part of a bid to achieve a visa waiver deal with the United States, an Israeli official said on Wednesday. Ahead of a Sept. 30 deadline to qualify its citizens for visa-free admission to the United States, Israel has reciprocally loosened access through its main airport […]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Fitch made its decision to downgrade the U.S. credit rating due to fiscal concerns and a deterioration in U.S governance as well as polarization which was also reflected by the Jan. 6 insurrection, Richard Francis, a senior director at Fitch Ratings, told Reuters on Wednesday. In a move that took investors by surprise, Fitch downgraded the United States to AA+ from AAA on Tuesday, citing fiscal […]

Donald Trump’s attorney John Lauro called the latest indictment of the former president “an attack on free speech and political advocacy.” Lauro said in an interview on CNN Tuesday night that it is “an effort to not only criminalize, but also to censor free speech” from Trump. He said Trump was being told by people after the 2020 presidential election “that there were problems” with it and “he also saw […]

By Crispin Kyala and Sonia Rolley KAHUZI-BIEGA NATIONAL PARK, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – In the forested borderlands of eastern Congo, some members of an exiled hunter-gatherer community plan to move back into their ancestral land in a national park in protest over broken promises from the authorities they say put rare gorillas over their rights. An estimated 10,000 indigenous Batwa live on the fringes of Kahuzi-Biega National Park […]

LISBON (Reuters) – Pope Francis arrived in Lisbon on Wednesday to start a five-day visit centred around the World Youth Day, a global gathering of young Catholics. The ITA Airways plane carrying the pontiff, his entourage and reporters landed at Lisbon’s Figo Maduro military air base. His first stop will be a welcoming ceremony hosted by Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa at the presidential Belem Palace. (Reporting by Philip […]

By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) – A Bangladesh court on Wednesday sentenced the exiled acting chairman of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and his wife to jail in absentia after finding them guilty of accumulating wealth beyond their declared income. The sentences come amid large BNP protest rallies, calling for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to step down and for the next election, due in January, to be held […]