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(Changes dateline to Venice, removes extraneous word from lede) By Sara Rossi and Gavin Jones VENICE (Reuters) -Mass tourism, impossibly high rents, worker exploitation, inequality and elitism: Venice protests in recent days against Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s high-profile wedding have highlighted growing global grievances. Local politicians dismissed protesters as a fringe minority. Bezos’s fame …

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By Harshita Meenaktshi, Bipasha Dey and Promit Mukherjee (Reuters) -The United States and the Group of Seven nations have agreed to support a proposal that would exempt U.S. companies from some components of an existing global agreement, the G7 said in a statement on Saturday. The group has created a “side-by-side” system in response to …

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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday that a U.S.-backed aid operation in Gaza is “inherently unsafe,” giving a blunt assessment: “It is killing people.” Israel and the United States want the U.N. to work through the controversial new Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, but the U.N. has refused, questioning …

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By Trevor Hunnicutt (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he will “get the conflict solved with North Korea.” At an Oval Office event where he highlighted his efforts to resolve global conflicts, Trump was asked whether he had written a letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, as was reported this month. …

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(Reuters) -McGraw Hill, a textbook publisher and educational courses provider backed by billionaire Tom Gores’ Platinum Equity, filed for an initial public offering in the United States on Friday. The move comes nearly four years after the company’s $4.5 billion acquisition by Platinum, and coincides with the gradual reopening of the IPO market. Recent strong …

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(Changes headline to say ‘used phone data’, not ‘hacked phones’) By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A hacker working for the Sinaloa drug cartel was able to obtain an FBI official’s phone records and use Mexico City’s surveillance cameras to help track and kill the agency’s informants in 2018, the U.S. Justice Department said in a …

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s Military Advocate General has ordered an investigation into possible war crimes over allegations that Israeli forces deliberately fired at Palestinian civilians near Gaza aid distribution sites, Haaretz newspaper reported on Friday. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed over the past month in the vicinity of areas where food was being handed …

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