Culiacan, Mexico (Reuters) -The street vendor said the few tourists who still visit Culiacan no longer look for posters of drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman and accused drug kingpin Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, once the Mexican city’s most famous residents.
The posters, which for years were in high demand, have become symbolic of a spike in horrific violence sparked by an alleged betrayal that led to Zambada's arrest one year ago and fueled fighting within... (continue reading...)
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazil is scrambling to avert punishing 50% U.S. tariffs in a week's time, but high level talks are stalled and U.S. companies are reluctant to confront U.S. President Donald Trump over the issue, officials and industry leaders say.
Trump linked the tariffs, which he has said would come into effect on Aug. 1, to Brazil's treatment of former President... (continue reading...)
By Ahmed Kingimi
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) -Armed attackers ambushed a vehicle returning from a weekly market in the Bokkos area of central Nigeria, killing 14 passengers including women and infants, a local community leader said on Friday.
The attack occurred at about noon on Thursday as the vehicle was carrying people back from the popular Bokkos market in violence-plagued Plateau state.
Farmasum Fuddang, chair of the... (continue reading...)
OTTAWA, July 25 (Reuters) - Canada recorded a sharply higher C$6.50 billion ($4.71 billion) budget deficit for the first two months of the 2025/26 fiscal year as government expenditures grew but revenues stalled, the finance ministry said on Friday.
By comparison, the deficit in the same period a year earlier had been just C$3.82 billion, it said in a statement.
Program expenses rose 4% on increases across all major categories of spending.... (continue reading...)
By Julia Payne and Jan Strupczewski
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union and the United States could reach a framework deal on trade this weekend, ending months of uncertainty for European industry, EU officials and diplomats said on Friday.
The deal would likely include a 15% baseline tariff on all EU goods entering the United States and probably a 50% tariff on European steel and aluminium, the officials and diplomats said.
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