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By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) – Four Indigenous children who were missing for more than five weeks in a jungle in Colombia’s south following a deadly plane crash arrived in the capital Bogota early on Saturday for medical treatment. The siblings were found on Friday in Colombia’s Caqueta province according to the country’s armed forces and were initially treated by military medics who had been among the search teams […]

By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) -Four children from an Indigenous community in Colombia were found alive in the country’s south on Friday more than five weeks after the plane they were traveling in crashed in thick jungle, Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said. The siblings were rescued by the military near the border between Colombia’s Caqueta and Guaviare provinces, close to where the small plane had crashed. The plane – […]

TOKYO (Reuters) -Some flights were delayed at Tokyo’s Haneda airport on Saturday after two planes appeared to have collided on the ground near a taxiway, public broadcaster NHK reported, citing Japan’s transport ministry. No injuries occurred, NHK and one of the airlines said, but the incident led to the closure of one of four runways at the airport from about 11 a.m. (0200 GMT). The broadcaster showed footage of jets […]

TOKYO (Reuters) -Some flights were delayed at Tokyo’s Haneda airport on Saturday after two planes appeared to have collided on the ground near a taxiway, public broadcaster NHK reported, citing Japan’s transport ministry. No injuries occurred, NHK and one of the airlines said, but the incident led to the closure of one of four runways at the airport from about 11 a.m. (0200 GMT). The broadcaster showed footage of jets […]

TOKYO (Reuters) -Some flights were delayed at Tokyo’s Haneda airport on Saturday after two planes appeared to have collided on the ground near a taxiway, public broadcaster NHK reported, citing Japan’s transport ministry. No injuries occurred, NHK and one of the airlines said, but the incident led to the closure of one of four runways at the airport from about 11 a.m. (0200 GMT). The broadcaster showed footage of jets […]

By Nell Mackenzie, Sinead Cruise and Naomi Rovnick LONDON (Reuters) – Big banks and investors quickly sought to distance themselves from Odey Asset Management after allegations of sexual misconduct by its founder, yet for some in the City of London signs of a deeper change in culture are still scant. The Financial Times and Tortoise Media reported on Thursday that 13 women alleged founder Crispin Odey, one of Britain’s best-known […]

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduras President Xiomara Castro formally requested the country’s admission to the BRICS-led New Development Bank (NDB) in a meeting with the bank’s president, Dilma Rousseff, Castro’s office said in a tweet late Friday. Castro is currently on a six-day official visit to China. Headquartered in Shanghai, the New Development Bank was set up in 2015 by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, collectively known as the […]

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduras President Xiomara Castro formally requested the country’s admission to the BRICS-led New Development Bank (NDB) in a meeting with the bank’s president, Dilma Rousseff, Castro’s office said in a tweet late Friday. Castro is currently on a six-day official visit to China. Headquartered in Shanghai, the New Development Bank was set up in 2015 by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, collectively known as the […]

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduras President Xiomara Castro formally requested the country’s admission to the BRICS-led New Development Bank (NDB) in a meeting with the bank’s president, Dilma Rousseff, Castro’s office said in a tweet late Friday. Castro is currently on a six-day official visit to China. Headquartered in Shanghai, the New Development Bank was set up in 2015 by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, collectively known as the […]