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Factbox-U.S. House Republicans’ many proposals for spending cuts in debt-ceiling debate

(Reuters) – Republicans who control the U.S. House of Representatives say any increase in the United States’ $31.4 trillion debt ceiling should be paired with spending cuts, but so far are not unified on any specific demands. Here are a few proposals Republicans had floated. LIMITED DISCRETION The Republican Study Committee, a group of 165 …

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Biden attorney: no classified documents found in search of Delaware beach house

By Jeff Mason and Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Justice Department did not find documents with classified markings during a three-and-a-half hour search of President Joe Biden’s beach house in Rehoboth, Delaware, on Wednesday but did take some materials for further review, Biden’s attorney said. The morning search by FBI agents appeared to …

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Nikki Haley, once Trump’s UN ambassador, to take him on in 2024

By Gram Slattery and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley will kick off her campaign for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination this month, squaring off against her one-time boss, Donald Trump, two sources familiar with her plans said on Wednesday. The move would make her just the second declared Republican candidate …

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Myanmar junta extends emergency as coup anniversary marked by ‘silent protest’

(Reuters) -Myanmar’s junta extended the country’s state of emergency by another six months, the acting president said at a leadership meeting broadcast on state TV on Wednesday, as protesters marked the anniversary of a 2021 military coup with a “silent protest”. Junta leader General Min Aung Hlaing, in a meeting on Tuesday with the army-backed …

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Hundreds of Afghans risk 11-country trek to seek haven in United States

By Mica Rosenberg, Kristina Cooke and Jackie Botts SAN PEDRO TAPANATEPEC, Mexico (Reuters) -Their journey starts with a humanitarian visa for Brazil: one of the few remaining exit routes for Afghans fleeing Taliban rule. It ends, after a perilous trek overland through Latin America across at least 11 countries, with scaling the border wall and …

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UK’s teachers and civil servants join mass strike on ‘Walkout Wednesday’

By Alistair Smout and Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) -Up to half a million British teachers, civil servants, and train drivers walked out over pay in the largest coordinated strike action for a decade on Wednesday, with unions threatening more disruption as the government digs its heels in over pay demands. The mass walkouts across the …

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Pope hears harrowing tales of Congo violence and says: ‘Enough!’

By Philip Pullella and Estelle Shirbon KINSHASA (Reuters) -Pope Francis heard harrowing accounts from victims of conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday, including rape, amputation, forced cannibalism and sexual slavery, and he condemned the atrocities as war crimes. In a poignant encounter at the Vatican’s embassy in the capital Kinshasa, victim after victim …

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