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U.S. envoy meets new Taliban chief negotiator as Afghan peace talks near
By Abdul Qadir Sediqi and Jibran Ahmad KABUL/PESHAWAR (Reuters) - U.S. special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad has held a meeting in Doha with the head of the new Taliban team due to open peace talks with a te...
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Iran building new production hall for centrifuges in mountains near Natanz
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran has begun to build a hall in "the heart of the mountains" near its Natanz nuclear site for the production of advanced centrifuges, Iran's nuclear chief said on Tuesday. It is me...
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White House’s Meadows says he is optimistic for COVID-19 funds before election
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on Tuesday said he was hopeful there would be another round of federal COVID-19 stimulus funding ahead of the Nov. 3 presidential electio...
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Pulled in many directions, Biden may keep Trump’s China tariffs in place
By David Lawder and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON/WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) - "Damaging," "reckless" and "disastrous" are some of the words Joe Biden has used to describe tariffs imposed by Donald Trum...
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Taxpayer, conservation groups pressure U.S. to halt drilling auctions
(Reuters) - U.S. taxpayer and conservation groups on Tuesday will urge the Trump administration to halt plans to sell oil and gas leases on more than 300,000 acres of public lands this month, saying p...
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Amazon’s Bezos tops Forbes richest list, pandemic knocks Trump lower
By Sheila Dang and Catherine Koppel (Reuters) - Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos topped Forbes' list of richest Americans for the third year in a row, while U.S. President Donald Trump's ranking drop...
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U.S., European COVID vaccine developers make pledge to uphold testing rigour
By Ludwig Burger and Patricia Weiss FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Nine leading U.S. and European vaccine developers pledged on Tuesday to uphold the scientific standards that their experimental immunisations ...
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Two Myanmar soldiers taken to the Hague after confessing to Rohingya killings: reports
(Reuters) - Two Myanmar soldiers have been taken to The Hague after confessing to murdering minority Rohingya Muslims during a 2017 crackdown, two news organisations and a rights group reported on Tue...
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Nasdaq futures fall 2% as tech sell-off resumes
(Reuters) - Futures tracking the Nasdaq 100 index fell 2% on Monday, on the first full trading day after a report said SoftBank made significant option purchases during a Wall Street rally since a cor...
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Scared of COVID-19 this Halloween? Hershey is making an ad for that
By Richa Naidu CHICAGO (Reuters) - Spooked by COVID-19, Martha Jones of Southern Kentucky will not let her three children trick-or-treat this year. Instead, she is transforming her sun deck into a min...
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