Mexico City mayor to step down to pursue historic bid for presidency

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said she will step down on Friday to pursue the ruling party’s candidacy for the 2024 presidential election, bidding to become the country’s first female leader. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s leftist National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) on Sunday agreed that on Sept. 6 it would announce the…

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Trump arrives in Florida to face charges, maintains lead in poll

By Jack Queen MIAMI (Reuters) -Former President Donald Trump arrived in Miami on Monday to face federal criminal charges, while a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found a vast majority of his fellow Republicans believe the case to be politically motivated. Trump, the front-runner for the Republican nomination in the 2024 presidential election, is scheduled to be…

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Ukraine denounces Russian MH17 ‘rambling conspiracy theory’ at World Court

-Lawyers for Ukraine at the top U.N. court on Monday rejected Russia’s account of the downing of a Malaysian airliner as a “rambling conspiracy theory”, in a case alleging Moscow backed separatists in eastern Ukraine in 2014. Kyiv says that Moscow violated a U.N. anti-terrorism treaty by equipping and funding pro-Russian forces, including militias who…

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U.S. diplomacy has slowed China’s expansion of spying, basing overseas, says Blinken

By Simon Lewis and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration has taken diplomatic steps that have slowed down a Chinese effort to project military power around the world, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday ahead of a visit to Beijing later this week. Washington’s top diplomat was asked at a press…

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