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By David Shepardson

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a June 6 hearing to determine the probable cause of a February 2023 near- miss incident involving a FedEx cargo plane and a Southwest Airlines jet in Austin, Texas.

The two planes nearly collided when the FedEx Boeing 767 was forced to fly over the Southwest jet to avoid a crash in poor visibility conditions. It was one of at least half a dozen... (continue reading...)

By Marco Aquino

LIMA (Reuters) - Peru's poverty rate rose again last year, official data showed on Thursday, as South America's fourth biggest nation struggles to emerge from a painful recession amid ongoing political turbulence blamed in part for denting the economy.

Some 29% of the population is now classified as impoverished and disproportionately represented in rural villages and towns, according to the Andean country's statistics... (continue reading...)

(Reuters) - The United States Postal Service on Thursday reported a net loss of $1.5 billion for the second quarter ended March 31, compared to a net loss of $2.5 billion a year ago.

(Reporting by Ananta agarwal; Editing by Pooja Desai)

By Patricia Zengerle

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Billions of dollars worth of U.S. weaponry remains in the pipeline for Israel, despite the delay of one shipment of bombs and a review of others by President Joe Biden's administration, concerned their use in an assault could wreak more devastation on Palestinian civilians.

A senior U.S. official said this week that the administration had reviewed the delivery of weapons that Israel might use... (continue reading...)

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi

KING ABDULLAH AIR BASE, Jordan (Reuters) - Air drops through Jordan by a coalition of Western and Arab states are a lifesaver for starving Palestinians in Gaza struggling to get aid due to closed crossings and insufficient access, the commander of British forces in Cyprus said on Thursday.

Air Vice-Marshal Peter Squires said the 11th airdrop by the Royal Air Force, which reached a cumulative total of 110 metric... (continue reading...)