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By Jeff Mason and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump declined to say whether he supported or opposed a potential military takeover of Gaza by Israel and said his administration’s focus was on increasing food access to the Palestinian enclave under assault from Washington’s ally. KEY QUOTES “I know that we are there …

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By Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration on Tuesday formally axed a program launched by billionaire former Trump adviser Elon Musk requiring federal employees to summarize their five workplace achievements from the prior week, as first reported by Reuters.  The Office of Personnel Management, the federal human resources agency that implemented Musk’s push to …

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By Jana Winter WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Violent crime fell 4.5% in the United States last year, marking the second consecutive annual decline, while hate crimes decreased by 1.5%, the FBI said in its annual national crime report released on Tuesday. The report is based on data collected from 16,675 state and local law enforcement agencies, which …

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By Dmitry Antonov and Mark Trevelyan MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia said on Tuesday that it would no longer place any limits on where it deploys intermediate-range missiles that can carry nuclear warheads. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was speaking a day after Russia said it was lifting what it called a unilateral moratorium on deploying intermediate-range missiles, …

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By Allison Lampert MONTREAL (Reuters) -The United States wants to rename and defund a UN aviation agency’s “gender” program that promotes participation by women in aviation, as President Donald Trump’s administration takes on diversity policies ahead of a fall gathering of high-level aerospace regulators. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) should rename its Gender Equality …

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By Sisipho Skweyiya MASERU (Reuters) -A reprieve from a 50% U.S. tariff on goods from Lesotho has come too late to prevent damage to the tiny African kingdom’s textiles industry, which has been hit hard by months of trade uncertainty, officials and industry players said. Lesotho’s tariff rate was slashed to 15% in last week’s …

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By John Revill ZURICH (Reuters) -Swiss President Karin Keller-Sutter and Business Minister Guy Parmelin flew to Washington on Tuesday, the government said, in a last-ditch effort to avoid the 39% tariffs announced by President Donald Trump on exports to the United States. The U.S. tariffs, hiked from the initial 31% rate announced in April, have …

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By Darya Korsunskaya, Andrew Osborn and Mark Trevelyan MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin is unlikely to bow to a sanctions ultimatum expiring this Friday from U.S. President Donald Trump, and retains the goal of capturing four regions of Ukraine in their entirety, sources close to the Kremlin told Reuters. Trump has threatened to hit …

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