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(Reuters) -Paramount Skydance said on Monday that comedian Jon Stewart will continue hosting Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” every Monday and serve as executive producer for the series until December next year. The political comedian returned to “The Daily Show” as executive producer and host in February last year. He stepped down in 2015 and …

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By Ana Mano and Adriano Machado ITUPIRANGA, Brazil (Reuters) -A narrow skiff slides among massive rocky outcroppings on the Tocantins River, where the catfish and peacock bass throng in the eddies during the waxing moon. For most of his life, Welton de Franca has fished like his father before him among these rocks on one …

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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United States will in the coming days ask a U.N. Security Council committee to impose sanctions on seven ships suspected of violating U.N. sanctions on North Korea, a State Department official said on Monday.  The seven vessels have illegally exported North Korean coal and iron ore to China, …

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By Tuvan Gumrukcu and Jonathan Spicer ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Countries are still working on a U.N. Security Council mandate for an international stabilisation force in Gaza, and will decide on any troop deployments once a framework is complete, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Monday. Fidan spoke after he and ministers from several Muslim-majority countries …

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By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Five million of the more than six million Jews killed in the Holocaust have now been identified, and with the further help of artificial intelligence (AI), even more names could be recovered, Israeli researchers said on Monday. Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, said the milestone marks …

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BELGRADE (Reuters) -Hundreds of anti-government protesters clashed with supporters of Serb President Aleksandar Vucic late on Sunday, close to the anniversary of a deadly roof collapse that triggered a youth-led movement against alleged corruption and mismanagement. Both sides threw flares at the culmination of a weekend of rallies in the capital and Serbia’s second city …

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DUBAI (Reuters) -Cooperation between Iran and the United States is not possible as long as Washington continues to support Israel and to maintain military bases and interfere in the Middle East region, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday. Khamenei’s comments came as President Donald Trump’s administration seeks to increase pressure on Iran. …

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(This November 1 story is repeated without any changes to the text) By Helen Coster NEW YORK (Reuters) -A federal court in Rhode Island on Saturday ordered the Trump administration to make full food aid benefit payments by Monday, or partial payments by Wednesday, while acknowledging the “irreparable harm” that exists without their timely payment. …

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