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Australian law chief wants defamation rules fixed for the internet age – letter
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's top law officer has written to her state counterparts urging them to redraft the country's defamation law after a High Court ruling that publishers of social media posts...
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U.S. Coast Guard probes whether ship struck oil pipeline -LA Times
(Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday inspected a vessel in Oakland focusing on the possibility that a ship's anchor struck a pipeline, causing an oil spill in California, the Los Angeles Time...
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Oil drops for 2nd session on unexpected rise in U.S. inventories
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Oil prices dropped for a second session Thursday, under pressure from an unexpected rise in U.S. crude stocks that raised concerns over demand after prices rallied to multi-year ...
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U.S. judge blocks enforcement of near-total abortion ban in Texas
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked a near-total ban on abortion in Texas, the toughest such law in the United States, in a challenge brought by Pr...
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King dollar not yet ready to abdicate, say FX strategists: Reuters poll
By Hari Kishan BENGALURU (Reuters) - King dollar will dominate currency markets in the near term before ceding ground to its peers in a year, found a Reuters poll of FX strategists who said U.S. Treas...
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White House labor task force meets Thursday to discuss key report that boosts unions
By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Kamala Harris and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh will convene a second meeting on Thursday of the White House labor task force, a group of cabinet se...
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Al Capone’s granddaughter hopes auction reveals human side of America’s notorious gangster
By Nathan Frandino SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - It was Christmas Day in 1946 when notorious Chicago gangster Al Capone took his wife and four granddaughters out for a walk onto the dock of their spr...
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Emerson Electric working on deal with software firm Aspen Tech – Bloomberg News
(Reuters) - Manufacturing giant Emerson Electric Co is in talks to merge its software assets with industrial software company Aspen Technology Inc, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people ...
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Indonesian parliament to vote on major tax overhaul
By Gayatri Suroyo JAKARTA (Reuters) - The Indonesian parliament will vote on Thursday on whether to back the government's proposals for one of the country's most ambitious tax overhauls, including rai...
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U.S. Senate filibuster looms large as leaders seek debt ceiling deal
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A threat by Democrats to do away with the U.S. Senate's filibuster rule colored Wednesday's behind-the-scene efforts to avert a looming federal debt default, whi...
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