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Former U.S. senator, presidential candidate Bob Dole to lie in state in Capitol
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Senator Bob Dole, a three-time Republican presidential candidate and decorated World War Two veteran, will lie in state on Thursday in the rotunda of the Capitol whe...
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Georgia Republicans purge Black Democrats from county election boards
By James Oliphant and Nathan Layne GRIFFIN, Georgia (Reuters) - Protesters filled the meeting room of the Spalding County Board of Elections in October, upset that the board had disallowed early votin...
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Fourth Ghislaine Maxwell accuser expected to testify at sex abuse trial
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - A fourth woman who said she was a teenager when Ghislaine Maxwell gave her an unsolicited massage and set her up for sex abuse by late financier Jeffrey Epstein is ex...
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Starbucks union drive spurred by barista burnout from mobile orders
By Hilary Russ and Julia Love NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp baristas waging a union campaign in Buffalo, New York, say they are organizing in part to have more of a say in the work...
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Deal to avert U.S. default, raise debt limit faces test in Senate
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A deal between the top Democrat and Republican in the U.S. Senate to help raise the federal government's $28.9 trillion debt limit will be tested on Thursday wh...
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Britain sending 140 engineers to Polish border with Belarus
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will send 140 military engineers to Poland this month to provide support at its border with Belarus, the Ministry of Defence said, in response to what it termed pressures fr...
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Investigation into Downing Street parties could become police matter – government
LONDON (Reuters) - An investigation into alleged lockdown parties in Downing Street last year will look at three gatherings and could become a police matter if evidence of law-breaking is uncovered, a...
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New COVID strain hits revival of S.Africa’s international tourist trade
By Saawmiet Moos and Nqobile Dludla CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Rushdi Harper's tour company in Cape Town was just starting to recover from a disastrous COVID-19 lockdown that had forced him to sell his hou...
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Tennis-Mauresmo named French Open tournament director
(Reuters) - Amelie Mauresmo has been appointed as the director of the French Open, the country's tennis federation (FFT) said on Thursday, becoming the first woman to lead the Roland Garros tournament...
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Violence between farmers and herders kills at least 22 in northern Cameroon
DOUALA (Reuters) - At least 22 people have been killed and more than 30 others injured this week in Cameroon's Far North region in a resurgence of tit-for-tat violence between Arab Choa herders and Mo...
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