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By Jack Kim and Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and U.S. President Donald Trump will hold their first summit meeting on August 25 in Washington to discuss strengthening the countries’ alliance and economic security partnership, Lee’s office said on Tuesday. Lee, who was elected president in a snap election …

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(Removes reference to honours in paragraph 3) GAZA (Reuters) -Student Maha Ali was determined to become a journalist one day and report on events in Gaza. Now she and other students have just one ambition: finding food as hunger ravages the Palestinian enclave. As war rages, she is living among the ruins of Islamic University, …

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By Trevor Hunnicutt, Andrea Shalal and Joe Cash WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) -The United States and China have extended a tariff truce for another 90 days, staving off triple-digit duties on each other’s goods as U.S. retailers get ready to ramp up inventories ahead of the critical end-of-year holiday season. U.S. President Donald Trump announced on his …

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By Luis Jaime Acosta and Julia Symmes Cobb BOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombian Senator and presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe, who was shot in the head at a campaign event two months ago, died in the early hours of Monday at the age of 39, the hospital treating him said. Uribe, a member of a prominent political family …

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By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) -Miguel Uribe, who died on Monday, was from a prominent Colombian political family for whom the turbulence of the country’s recent decades twice became personal tragedy. Uribe had been vying for his party’s candidacy in upcoming presidential elections but died two months after being shot in the head at …

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By Trevor Hunnicutt and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that both Ukraine and Russia would have to cede land to each other to end the war and that his talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin would be aimed at taking the temperature on a possible deal. Trump told a …

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LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is “gravely concerned” about the repeated targeting of journalists in Gaza, his spokesperson said on Monday, after five reporters were killed in an Israeli airstrike. Israel’s military said it targeted and killed prominent Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al Sharif, alleging he had headed a Hamas militant cell and …

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(Reuters) -Colombian Senator and presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe, who was shot in the head at a campaign event two months ago, died in the early hours of Monday at the age of 39. Following are reactions to the news: COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT GUSTAVO PETRO “My condolences to the family of Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay, and to …

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