By Trevor Hunnicutt and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The head of Taiwan’s National Security Council arrived in the United States for talks with President Donald Trump’s administration, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday, days after China concluded war games around Taiwan. Joseph Wu was leading a delegation for a meeting known as …
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(Reuters) – U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau discussed on Friday with Panama’s Foreign Minister Javier Martinez-Acha the importance of an ongoing audit of Hutchison’s management of concessions of two ports at either end of the Panama Canal, the State Department said in a readout of their conversation. Though the canal itself is operated …
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By Nate Raymond and Jack Queen (Reuters) -The Trump administration on Friday lost a bid to throw out or move to Louisiana a Tufts University student’s legal challenge to her immigration arrest, which sparked protests against the president’s efforts to deport pro-Palestinian activists on American campuses. U.S. District Judge Denise Casper said the case brought …
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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A federal judge ruled on Friday that Republican U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration violated a court order by halting Federal Emergency Management Agency’s disbursement of millions of dollars in grant funding to states. U.S. District Judge John McConnell in Providence, Rhode Island, sided with Democratic state attorneys general in finding that …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Energy Department has identified thousands of staffers it has deemed as non-essential, including at its office that manages the country’s nuclear weapons arsenal, who would not be protected in a second round of cuts, an Associated Press report said on Friday. More than 8,500 staffers across the department and 500 …
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By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) -The U.S. Internal Revenue Service began making sweeping cuts to its workforce on Friday, the agency’s leadership said in an email to staff on Friday, and among the first to go will be employees of its civil rights office. Reuters previously reported that more than 20,000 staff would be cut, which …
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By Ana Mano SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Indigenous protests and poor roads have disrupted shipping of Brazil’s bumper soybean crop in recent days via the river port of Miritituba in the Amazon rainforest, worrying global companies including Cargill and Bunge which have important operations. Abiove, an association representing grain handlers, said on Friday road access …
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By Jeffrey Dastin REDMOND, Wash (Reuters) -Thousands of people swooned in a dark conference hall that felt more like a rock concert when a Microsoft product manager demonstrated the company’s latest feature: how to sum numbers in Excel, with the click of a button. “It was literally like Mick Jagger walked out,” said Yusuf Mehdi, …
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PANAMA CITY (Reuters) – Panama’s government said on Friday that it is seeking an exclusion to the tariffs announced by U.S. President Donald Trump earlier this week. “The scope of this decision and ways to mitigate its impact are being analyzed, including efforts to exclude Panama from its application,” Panama’s government said in a statement. …
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By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) – Syria welcomed a United Nations resolution on Friday to investigate violations and improve the country’s human-rights record following the 13-year civil war waged by former President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. The resolution, which calls for Syria’s new government to support inquiries into crimes committed during the conflict that started …
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