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By Xinghui Kok KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -Top economic officials from the U.S. and China ended their first day of talks in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, with a Treasury spokesperson describing them as “very constructive”. The world’s two largest economies are looking to avert an escalation of their trade war and ensure that a meeting happens …

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By Ed White and Divya Rajagopal WINNIPEG/TORONTO (Reuters) -Baseball brought Canadians some joy to counteract economic gloom on Friday night, when the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers, spurring nationwide celebrations. Canada’s only Major League Baseball team, playing in the World Series for the first time in more than three decades, has …

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By Daphne Psaledakis, Julia Symmes Cobb and Brendan O’Boyle WASHINGTON/BOGOTA/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -The U.S. on Friday imposed sanctions on Colombian President Gustavo Petro, as President Donald Trump sharply escalated a feud with Washington’s longtime Latin American ally over accusations that Petro has refused to stop the flow of cocaine into the United States. Tensions between …

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By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. strike against an alleged drug vessel killed six suspected “narco-terrorists” in the Caribbean, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday, the latest operation in President Donald Trump’s counter-drug campaign in the region. In a post on X, Hegseth said this was the first strike …

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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Civil rights advocacy groups on Friday asked a federal judge to block the U.S. Justice Department from shuttering a 1960s-era office that was tasked with quelling racial and ethnic tensions in communities across America. The lawsuit takes aim at Attorney General Pam Bondi’s recent decision to formally shut down the …

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By Ardee NAPOLITANO PARIS (Reuters) -A painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, believed to be depicting his muse and partner Dora Maar, fetched 27 million euros ($31.49 million) at a Paris auction on Friday. The work, titled “Bust of a Woman with a Flowered Hat (Dora Maar) 1943”, was acquired by a French family in …

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By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration escalated a U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean on Friday by announcing the deployment of the Gerald Ford aircraft carrier group to Latin America — a show of force far beyond any past counter-narcotics effort and Washington’s most assertive move in the region …

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