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By Bhargav Acharya (Reuters) -Locomotive parts maker Wabtec has reached a $4.2 billion agreement with Kazakhstan under which the Pennsylvania-headquartered company will provide the central Asian country with 300 locomotives, the U.S. Department of Commerce said on Monday. The deal will give Kazakhstan’s national railway company Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) 300 “evolution Series ES44Aci heavy-haul …

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By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. government is revoking the visas of Brazilian Solicitor-General Jorge Messias and five other former and current Brazilian judicial officials, a senior Trump administration official told Reuters on Monday. The move represents a significant escalation in the ongoing feud between the U.S. and Brazilian governments that has intensified since …

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By Mark Trevelyan LONDON (Reuters) -Russia is offering the United States a deal that would extend by one year the last remaining nuclear arms treaty between the two countries, known as New START. Here is a look at what’s at stake and what presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump have said so far on the …

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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan accepted a $50,000 bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent last year in a since-closed U.S. Justice Department bribery investigation, two sources familiar with the matter said on Sunday. In the alleged scheme, Homan promised immigration-related government contracts when he joined …

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(Reuters) -Mexico’s National Service of Agro-Alimentary Health, Safety, and Quality on Sunday confirmed a new case of New World screwworm in Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo Leon, less than 70 miles (113 km) from the U.S.-Mexico border, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said. “USDA is analyzing all new information related to the recent case in Nuevo Leon …

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By Josh Smith, Hyunjoo Jin and Heejung Jung SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s economy could fall into crisis rivalling its 1997 meltdown if the government accepts current U.S. demands in stalled trade talks without safeguards, President Lee Jae Myung told Reuters. Seoul and Washington verbally agreed to a trade deal in July in which the U.S. …

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