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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman by phone on Monday to discuss the situations in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen, the U.S.

By Hamid Shalizi and Rupam Jain KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan security forces backed by U.S. advisers and air strikes fought on Monday to drive Taliban fighters out of the flashpoint city of Ghazni, where hundreds of people have been killed or wounded during four days of fighting. The Taliban attack on Ghazni, a strategic centre on the main highway linking the capital Kabul with southern Afghanistan, is a blow to President Ashraf Ghani weeks before a parliamentary election is due and dampens hopes... Читать дальше...

(Reuters) - A furore over alleged anti-semitism in Britain's main opposition party widened on Monday when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn exchanged accusations on Twitter over Israeli-Palestinian bloodshed. Labour has been wrestling accusations of anti-semitism for months, and Corbyn has previously apologised for what he has described as "pockets" of anti-semitism in the organisation. Britain's right-leaning Daily Mail on Friday reported that Corbyn... Читать дальше...

By Jeff Mason FORT DRUM, New York (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump signed a $716 billion defence policy bill on Monday that authorizes military spending and includes watered-down controls on U.S.

KAMPALA (Reuters) - A musician turned anti-government politician alleged that police shot at his vehicle and killed his driver on Monday during campaigning for a parliamentary by-election in northwest Uganda. Robert Kyagulanyi, a popular independent who is an outspoken critic of President Yoweri Museveni, said the shooting happened while he was canvassing for his preferred candidate

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks dropped on Monday as global jitters due to Turkey's plummeting currency spread to Wall Street. All three major U.S

By Chris Prentice and Zandi Shabalala NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - Gold prices sank below $1,200 per ounce on Monday to their lowest since late January 2017, losing out to U.S. Treasuries and a strong dollar as investors sought refuge from a financial market rout triggered by a crashing Turkish lira. Investors traditionally use gold as a means of preserving the value of their assets during times of political and economic uncertainty and inflation, but it has this year failed to benefit

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. economic growth will probably accelerate this year before slowing in 2019 to well below the Trump administration's 3 percent target as a fiscal stimulus fades, congressional researchers projected on Monday. In an updated economic outlook, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected that inflation adjusted or real gross domestic product (GDP) would grow 3.1 percent this year, exceeding 2.2 percent growth in 2017 due to lower income taxes, increased government... Читать дальше...

By Supantha Mukherjee (Reuters) - Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Monday a July 31 meeting with Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund convinced him he could secure funding to take the electric car-maker private, but that he was still talking to the fund and other investors as he seeks to nail down financing. Musk's latest disclosure comes six days after he surprised investors by announcing on Twitter that he was considering taking Tesla private at a price of $420 per share and that funding was "secured." Since then... Читать дальше...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a secret summit with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Egypt in May to discuss a long-term ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, Israel's Channel Ten News said on Monday.

By Nathan Layne ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Monday plan to wrap up their tax and bank fraud case against former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort, making it likely the case will go to the jury by midweek if the defense decides not to call any witnesses

By Ori Lewis MITZPE RAMON, Israel (Reuters) - Thousands of star-gazers gathered overnight at one of the darkest spots in Israel hoping to be dazzled by the annual Perseid meteor shower, only to be left somewhat disappointed by the show. Locals had the rare task of directing traffic on a moonless Monday night in Mitzpe Ramon in the heart of the Negev Desert, a spot surrounded by terrain described as similar to a lunar or Martian landscape

By Andrew Hay TAOS, N.M. (Reuters) - Five parents arrested on charges of abusing their 11 children at a New Mexico compound where a 12th child died under suspicious circumstances were due back in court on Monday for a hearing to decide whether they should remain jailed. The five, all close relatives of a prominent New York City Muslim cleric who is the biological grandfather of most of the children involved, were taken into custody after a raid on their makeshift settlement 10 days ago in the... Читать дальше...

By Stephanie Kelly NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices fell on Monday after data suggested inventories at the U.S. crude delivery hub rose in the latest week, compounding worries that troubled emerging markets and trade tensions will dent the outlook for fuel demand. Brent crude futures dipped 20 cents, or 0.3 percent, to settle at $72.61 a barrel, while U.S.

By Noel Randewich SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Short sellers betting against Tesla trimmed their exposure to the electric car maker's stock on Monday after Chief Executive Elon Musk gave new information about his proposal to take the company private. Midsession data showed traders continuing to reduce their bets against Tesla after short interest on Friday dipped to 26.9 percent of the company's float, the lowest since June, according to S3 Partners, a financial analytics firm

By Stephen Culp NEW YORK (Reuters) - The S&P 500 and the Dow industrials fell on Monday as a global contagion of market jitters arising from the plunge of Turkey's currency spread to Wall Street, while the Nasdaq edged higher on gains from tech stocks. Financial stocks bore the brunt of the concerns over Turkey, with shares of Citigroup Inc , Bank of America Corp , Wells Fargo & Co and JPMorgan Chase & Co down between 0.5 percent and 1.5 percent.

By Uday Sampath Kumar (Reuters) - VF Corp , one of the world's biggest apparel makers, will spin off Lee and Wrangler jeans into a separate public company, it said on Monday, allowing it to focus on its more profitable Vans sneakers and The North Face outerwear businesses.

By Tiemoko Diallo BAMAKO (Reuters) - Voters stayed away in droves from Mali's run-off presidential election due to fears over security and simple apathy, but the voting process was generally fair despite a number of incidents, election monitors said on Monday. The vote pitted President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita against opposition leader Soumaila Cisse after an inconclusive first round last month, when Keita won about 41 percent of the vote. Official second-round results are not expected for a few... Читать дальше...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A leading U.S. Jewish columnist said on Monday that he was detained by Israeli authorities at Tel Aviv's airport and questioned about his political activity, the latest in a series of such incidents.

By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - At least 40 people were killed by paramilitary forces in eastern Ethiopia over the weekend, in the latest spate of violence driven by ethnic divisions, a senior regional official said on Monday. The unrest along the border of the country's Somali and Oromiya provinces has displaced nearly a million people. On Monday, the Oromiya regional administration's spokesman Negeri Lencho said "heavily-armed" members of a paramilitary force from the Somali region... Читать дальше...

By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - At least 40 people were killed by paramilitary forces in eastern Ethiopia over the weekend, a senior regional official said on Monday, in the latest spate of violence driven by ethnic divisions. Unrest first broke out along the border of the country's Somali and Oromiya provinces in September, displacing nearly a million people, though the violence had subsided by April

(Reuters) - Two senior members of the Trump administration will visit California on Monday, where firefighters are battling infernos that have killed at least eight people. Some 110 wildfires are burning swathes of the western United States, which is facing an unusually active fire year that has so far burned more than 8,900 square miles (23,000 square kilometers), an area larger than the state of New Jersey, according to federal data.

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chilean president Sebastian Pinera's pick for culture minister was forced to resign on Monday, just days into his new job, after criticism mounted over comments he made in 2015 about a human rights museum in capital Santiago. Mauricio Rojas, a Chilean-Swedish political economist and member of Pinera's center-right coalition, questioned the validity of the Museum of History and Human Rights, which opened in 2010 and documents abuses during the 1973-1990 military dictatorship... Читать дальше...

By Parisa Hafezi ANKARA (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader on Monday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump's offer of unconditional talks to improve bilateral ties and he also accused the Iranian government of economic mismanagement in the face of reimposed U.S.

Former national hockey coach Joaquim Carvalho has backed both the Indian men and women's teams to bag the gold medal in the upcoming Asian Games.