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By Josue Decavele ACAPULCO, Mexico (Reuters) -Mexico’s government on Sunday intensified efforts to get the stricken coastal city of Acapulco back on its feet as the toll of dead and missing from a record-breaking hurricane that ravaged the iconic beach resort continued to rise. Hurricane Otis ripped through Acapulco as a Category 5 storm on Wednesday, wrecking …

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By Joseph White and David Shepardson DETROIT (Reuters) -United Auto Workers leaders approved a tentative deal on Sunday with Ford that includes a pay hike of at least 30% for full-time workers and could more than double pay for others, in a victory for the union’s fight to roll back 15 years of concessions. Bargaining …

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By Steve Gorman and Rich McKay LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Family, friends and fellow celebrities on Sunday mourned the loss of Matthew Perry, the wise-cracking co-star of the 1990s hit television sitcom “Friends,” a day after the actor was found dead in a hot tub at his Los Angeles home. “Matthew brought so much joy to …

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By Gabriella Borter LEWISTON, Maine (Reuters) -The U.S. Army reservist who sprayed a bowling alley and bar with gunfire this week in Lewiston, Maine, killing 18 people, took his own life inside a cargo trailer parked on the lot of a recycling plant where he once worked, police said on Saturday. Robert R. Card, 40, …

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By Dan Williams and Nidal al-Mughrabi JERUSALEM/GAZA (Reuters) -Israel signalled intent to encircle Gaza’s main city on Sunday, publishing pictures of battle tanks on the Palestinian enclave’s western coast 48 hours after ordering expanded ground incursions across its eastern border. Israel’s self-declared “second phase” of a three-week war against Iranian-backed Hamas militants had initially been …

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(Corrects Perry was sitting in a pool or jacuzzi, not by, in paragraph 9) By Steve Gorman and Ismail Shakil LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Actor Matthew Perry, beloved star of the top-rated 1990s U.S. television sitcom “Friends” as the wise-cracking Chandler Bing, died on Saturday after apparently drowning in a hot tub. He was 54. The …

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