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By Nqobile Dludla JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday that he wanted to “do a deal” with U.S. President Donald Trump to resolve a dispute over his country’s land policy and genocide case against Israel at the World Court. Trump cut U.S. financial assistance to South Africa in an executive …

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By Rich McKay (Reuters) – A child in West Texas has died of measles, state health officials said on Wednesday, the first reported U.S. death from the highly contagious disease in a decade, as a Texas outbreak has grown from a handful of cases to more than 130 across two states. The child, who was …

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By Matt Spetalnick, Marianna Parraga and Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he was reversing a license given to Chevron to operate in Venezuela by his predecessor Joe Biden more than two years ago, accusing President Nicolas Maduro of not making progress on electoral reforms and migrant returns. In a …

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JERUSALEM/TEL AVIV/GAZA (Reuters) -Hamas handed over the bodies of four Israeli hostages while it waited for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners to be released by Israel in return, in an overnight exchange marking the final swap as part of a fragile truce in Gaza. The ceasefire came into effect on January 19 and has largely held, …

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By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada’s ruling Liberals, who a few weeks ago looked certain to lose an election this year, are mounting a major comeback amid the threat of U.S. tariffs and are tied with their rival Conservatives, according to three new polls. An Ipsos survey released late on Tuesday showed the left-leaning …

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By Max A. Cherney, Arsheeya Bajwa and Stephen Nellis (Reuters) -Nvidia’s strong growth forecast for the first quarter on Wednesday signaled that booming demand for its artificial intelligence chips was intact, and the company said orders for its new Blackwell semiconductors were “amazing.” The company’s forecast helps allay doubts around a slowdown in spending on …

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By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) – The founder of a cryptocurrency financial services firm has been extradited from Portugal to face U.S. charges that he participated in a wide-ranging scheme to manipulate the market for digital tokens on behalf of client companies. Aleksei Andriunin, the founder and CEO of cryptocurrency “market maker” Gotbit, was ordered …

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By Leah Douglas and Tom Polansek WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. will invest up to $1 billion to combat the spread of bird flu, as well as increase imports of eggs in an effort to drive down high prices, agriculture secretary Brooke Rollins said on Wednesday. A three-year bird flu outbreak in U.S. poultry has …

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