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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s parliament dismissed the domestic security chief and prosecutor general on Tuesday, two days after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy suspended them for failing to root out Russian spies. Ivan Bakanov was fired from his position at the helm of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) by a comfortable majority, several lawmakers said on …

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(Reuters) -Apple Inc plans to slow hiring and spending growth next year in some units to cope with a potential economic downturn, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people with knowledge of the matter. The potential move would see Apple – the world’s most valuable company – join a growing pool of American corporations including …

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By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – Swedish-born artist Claes Oldenburg, who turned everyday objects such as a clothespin, a baseball bat or a flashlight into giant sculptures of public art in the United States and around the world, died on Monday at age 93, the Paula Cooper Gallery said. Oldenburg came to prominence in New York …

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By Cheney Orr and Brendan O’Brien GREENWOOD, Ind. (Reuters) -The gunman who killed three people in a shopping mall near Indianapolis would likely have taken many move lives if not for the “heroic” actions of an armed bystander who shot the suspect dead and stopped the attack, police said on Monday. Elisjsha Dicken, 22, who …

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BRASILIA (Reuters) – President Jair Bolsonaro invited the diplomatic corps on Monday to hear his charges that Brazil’s election system was open to fraud ahead of October elections in which he is trailing in a bid for a second term. “The system is completely vulnerable,” he told some 40 diplomats invited to his residence in …

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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two New York state residents were charged with illegally using funds from Chinese and Singaporean investors to donate $600,000 to then-President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign in 2017, U.S. prosecutors said on Monday. The scheme was part of an effort by Sherry Li and Lianbo Wang to showcase political …

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