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By Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China’s aggressive military response to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan has increased interest from other countries’ parliaments in similar trips, the island’s de facto ambassador to the United States said on Wednesday. China, which claims Taiwan as its territory, carried out its largest-ever military exercises around …

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By Ludwig Burger and Tassilo Hummel (Reuters) -Sanofi stopped further work on amcenestrant, once seen to have large potential against breast cancer, after a second trial failure dealt a major blow to the French healthcare company’s development prospects. The move weighed on shares and put more pressure on Sanofi to bolster its pipeline of drug …

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By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia’s former prime minister Scott Morrison said on Wednesday he decided to be secretly sworn in to five key ministries during the coronavirus pandemic because he felt responsibility for the nation was his alone. Morrison, who stepped down as leader of the Liberal Party after losing a general election in …

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By Andrew MacAskill and Sachin Ravikumar LONDON (Reuters) – The two candidates battling to be Britain’s next prime minister vied to present themselves as defenders of Scotland’s place in the United Kingdom on Tuesday, promising more scrutiny of Scotland’s government to undermine a new push for independence. The Scottish National Party (SNP), which heads Scotland’s …

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By Paresh Dave MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google is combining the eyes and arms of physical robots with the knowledge and conversation skills of virtual chatbots to help its employees fetch soda and chips from breakrooms with ease. The mechanical waiters, shown in action to reporters last week, embody an artificial intelligence …

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By Maria Carolina Marcello and Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Far-right President Jair Bolsonaro and his leftist front-running challenger Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva formally launched their campaigns on Tuesday for Brazil’s most polarized elections in decades in October. The race pits a nationalist populist with an agenda backed by Christian conservatives against a …

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NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga who was defeated in a tight and disputed presidential election by Deputy President William Ruto will address the media at 1100 GMT on Tuesday, his spokesman said via Twitter. (Reporting by Duncan Miriri; Writing by James Macharia Chege; Editing by Alison Williams)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The only way to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal is for Tehran to abandon its extraneous demands, the U.S. State Department said on Monday, saying Washington believes everything that can be negotiated already has been. State Department spokesman Ned Price told a briefing that the United States would provide its response to …

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