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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia will increase imports of U.S. food and commodities and reduce orders from countries where the Southeast Asian nation currently buys the products, chief economic minister Airlangga Hartarto told reporters in Washington. Airlangga is in the United States as part of a delegation of senior officials to meet U.S. counterparts for talks …

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By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – A federal grand jury has indicted Luigi Mangione, who is accused of murdering a UnitedHealth Group executive in New York last year, allowing prosecutors to seek the death penalty in his case, according to court filings on Thursday. Mangione, 26, is already facing state murder and weapons charges in New …

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By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signaled a potential end to the tit-for-tat tariff hikes between the U.S. and China that shocked markets, and that a deal over the fate of social media platform TikTok may have to wait. “I don’t want them to go higher because at a certain …

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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned Global South nations that “unilateral bullying” was hurting a rules-based world, as Beijing kept up the diplomatic pressure on U.S. President Donald Trump to roll back his punitive trade tariffs. Power politics and unilateral bullying were undermining international rules and creating divisions and confrontations, Wang told …

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BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Hungary expects to sign a business deal with the U.S. in six months that could help to offset the likely impact of tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told website www.ot.hu late on Thursday. European Union member Hungary’s car industry is a key driver of its economy but …

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By Jody Godoy (Reuters) – Alphabet’s Google illegally dominates two markets for online advertising technology, a judge ruled on Thursday, dealing another blow to the tech giant and paving the way for U.S. antitrust prosecutors to seek a breakup of its ad products. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema in Alexandria, Virginia, found Google liable for …

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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -Hamas wants a comprehensive deal to end the war in Gaza and swap all Israeli hostages for Palestinians jailed in Israel, a senior official from the Palestinian militant group said, rejecting Israel’s offer of an interim truce. In a televised speech, Khalil Al-Hayya, the group’s Gaza chief who leads its …

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By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) -Ecuador’s leftist presidential challenger Luisa Gonzalez plans to formally challenge the result of Sunday’s election, claiming widespread fraud, although she has lost the support of a key allied party in disputing her defeat. Election authorities and outside observers have said incumbent President Daniel Noboa secured a full term after sweeping …

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By Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court said on Thursday it will hear arguments next month over Donald Trump’s bid to broadly enforce his executive order to restrict automatic birthright citizenship, a key pillar of the Republican president’s hardline approach toward immigration.  The justices, in an unsigned order, did not immediately act on …

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