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Thailand allows visitors back to beach made famous by movie
PHI PHI LEH, Thailand (Reuters) - Thailand has reopened Maya Bay, a white sand beach made famous by the 2000 film "The Beach" starring Leonardo DiCaprio, more than three years after closing it to allo...
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Tencent to reduce voting stake in Singapore tech group Sea
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Chinese gaming and social media company Tencent Holdings Ltd has agreed to convert its Class B ordinary shares in Singapore-based gaming and e-commerce firm Sea Ltd into Class A ...
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Democracy under siege: An hour-by-hour look at the assault on the U.S. Capitol
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Almost a year has passed since supporters of Donald Trump attacked the U.S. Capitol in a failed attempt to overturn his election defeat, the worst assault on the se...
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U.S. Congress probe of deadly Capitol attack racing against election deadline
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress' probe of the deadly Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol by Donald Trump supporters soon begins weeks of public hearings that will put the investigation...
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Toyota poised to dethrone GM in 2021 as U.S. sales leader
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp is poised to outsell General Motors Co in the United States in 2021, which would mark the first time the Detroit automak...
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Ford doubles Lightning production as electric truck battle with GM heats up
By Paul Lienert DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co said on Tuesday that it will nearly double annual production capacity for its red-hot F-150 Lightning electric pickup to 150,000 vehicles as the model...
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Musk-backed Starlink to refund pre-orders in India after govt order
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet venture told its members on Tuesday the Indian government had asked the company to refund all its pre-orders until i...
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Indonesia approves merger of units of Qatar’s Ooredoo, CK Hutchison
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia on Tuesday approved a $6 billion merger of telco units of Qatar's Ooredoo and Hong Kong's CK Hutchison and set a deadline of 2025 for the merged entity to ramp up its ser...
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Factbox-Turkey starts 2022 with flurry of price hikes after inflation surge
(Reuters) - After inflation surged to a 19-year high of 36.1% last month, Turkey has pushed through a series of price hikes at the start of the year which are set to add to cost pressures as Ankara pu...
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Czechs want tweaks to nuclear and gas conditions in EU green plan
By Jason Hovet and Robert Muller PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech Republic will seek allies to change conditions for the inclusion of gas and nuclear power projects in the European Union's hotly-debated g...
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