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By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration shelved in recent weeks an inter-agency working group it had set up to formulate strategies for pressuring Russia into speeding up peace talks with Ukraine, according to three U.S. officials. The effort, which was established earlier in the spring, lost steam in May as it became increasingly …

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By John Davison AL SHADADI BASE, Syria (Reuters) -U.S. forces have pulled out of two more bases in northeastern Syria, visiting Reuters reporters found, accelerating a troop drawdown that the commander of U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces said was allowing a resurgence of Islamic State. Reuters reporters who visited the two bases in the past week …

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By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Federal Reserve officials met on Tuesday armed with new economic data that could give more weight to their concerns that Trump administration policies, or at least the intense uncertainty around them, will slow growth in the coming months. Shortly before the start of the two-day policy meeting, the U.S. Commerce …

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By Allison Lampert and Oliver Griffin MONTREAL/SAO PAULO (Rtrs) -The U.S. is expected to object this month to a recommendation at the UN aviation agency council that Washington says unfairly favors Brazilian corn farmers at the expense of U.S. producers in development of green jet fuel, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. One of …

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By Abraham Achirga YELWATA, Nigeria (Reuters) -The gunmen attacked after dark and chased farmer Fidelis Adidi away from the central Nigerian village of Yelwata. The next morning he returned to find the charred remains of one of his two wives and four of his children. They had been living in a room he had rented …

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By Michele Kambas and Emily Rose LARNACA, Cyprus/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -When his phone started pinging persistently at 4 a.m. on Friday, the chief rabbi of Cyprus learnt that war had broken out between Israel and Iran. By the time he got to his synagogue three hours later, the street outside was full of Israelis with suitcases. …

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(Reuters) -Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, the first female president of Nicaragua, died early Saturday morning in Costa Rica at the age of 95, her family announced in a statement. Chamorro, an unlikely leader whose rise to power was fueled by her husband’s murder, served as president from 1990-1997. She championed regional development and peace after …

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