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Under the partial guarantee scheme, PSU banks have been accorded sanction to purchase Rs 21,580 crore worth of pooled assets as on 16 October

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By Moira Warburton (Reuters) - The Canadian attorney general has filed affidavits asserting that information identifying Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou's electronic devices was not shared with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) during her December 2018 arrest in Vancouver, court documents showed on Thursday. Meng, 47, is charged in the United States with bank fraud and she is accused of misleading HSBC Holdings PLC  about Huawei Technologies Co Ltd's business in Iran, which is under U.S.

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By Andrew Galbraith SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Asian shares fell on Friday in a weak start to the month and off three-month highs struck this week on fresh concerns over Sino-U.S. trade prospects and ahead of U.S. economic data, while the dollar eased against major rivals

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By Choonsik Yoo and Joori Roh SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean exports in October fell for an 11th consecutive month and by the most in nearly four years on-year as shipments to China kept slowing and computer chip prices plunged, data showed on Friday. The country's exports dropped 14.7% in October from a year earlier, trade ministry data showed, setting the worst fall since January 2016 and missing a median 13.8% fall tipped in a Reuters survey and an 11.7% decline in September.

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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish manufacturing business conditions improved in October for the first time since May as output and new orders returned to growth, a survey showed on Friday. The AIB IHS Markit manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) climbed to 50.7 in October from 48.7 in September. The rise above the 50-point mark separating expansions from contractions came as panelists said they had increased their production in line with a pick-up in customer demand.

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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's factory activity contracted for the sixth straight month in October but at a slightly slower pace, a private business survey showed on Friday, as cooling global demand and trade tensions continued to weigh on the export-reliant economy. The Nikkei/Markit purchasing managers' index (PMI) inched up to 48.4 at the beginning of the final quarter, from 48.0 in September, but remained well below the 50-point level that separates contraction from growth on a monthly basis.

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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese factory activity sank to more than a three-year low in October, with the sixth-straight month of contraction largely led by shrinking new orders and output in a fresh warning sign for the world's third-largest economy. The Jibun Bank Final Japan Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) dropped to 48.4 on a seasonally adjusted basis, hitting the lowest level since June 2016. The figure was down a notch from last week's preliminary October reading of 48.5, and compared to a final 48.9 in the previous month.

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On World Vegan Day today here's a look at the things you should consider so that you can make an informed choice if you are considering the switch.

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Lionel Messi has already scored half the goals he had scored in the first half of his career from free-kicks already this season, while Cristiano Ronaldo has none.

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Granit Xhaka took to social media to clarify his flare-up with fans during Arsenal's last Premier League clash.

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Granada lost to Getafe 3-1 as they failed to return to the top of the La Liga point table.

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Follow our LIVE blog to check the latest score and updates from the first T20I between New Zealand and England played at Christchurch

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राजधानी दिल्ली के इंदिरा गांधी इंटरनेशनल एयरपोर्ट के टर्मिनल 3 पर एक संदिग्ध बैग मिलने से हड़कंप मच गया. संदिग्ध...

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By Stephen Nellis CAMPBELL, California (Reuters) - For over 14 years at Apple Inc , Rubén Caballero had to include a cable with every iPhone design whose wireless engineering he oversaw, from the first prototypes in 2005 to iPhone 11 models on shelves now.

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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's September jobless rate climbed from near 30-year lows and job availability slipped, government data showed on Friday, suggesting the nation's tightest jobs market in decades may be reaching its peak. Japan's ageing and declining population has led to a tight labour market. But wage increases remain weak and companies are wary of passing on more of their profits to employees due to uncertainty over the economic outlook.

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By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - A mandatory 24-hour delay on all first-time payments from one bank account to another would cut mounting fraud in finance, UK lawmakers said in a report on Friday. Parliament's Treasury Select Committee said fraudsters stole over 600 million pounds from consumers in the first half of 2019 and regulators must crack down harder on scammers. With money transfers between accounts taking just seconds, customers or their bank have little time to be aware that a fraud has taken place, the report said

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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said on Friday he saw no need now to compile stimulus measures to support the economy. Asked about a media report that the government was considering crafting a stimulus plan, Aso said: "I have not received instructions" from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's jobless rate rose in September from the previous month and job availability slipped, government data showed on Friday.

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By Christopher Bing and Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senior government officials in multiple U.S.-allied countries were targeted earlier this year with hacking software that used Facebook Inc's WhatsApp to take over users' phones, according to people familiar with the messaging company's investigation.

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BEIJING (Reuters) - Factory activity in China shrank for the sixth straight month in October, official data showed on Thursday, pointing to further pressure on its manufacturers as they grapple with the weakest economic growth in nearly 30 years. The official Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) was at 49.3 in October, dipping from 49.8 in September, the survey from the statistics bureau showed.

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By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's industrial output rebounded in September to log its fastest gain in four months, offering some relief to manufacturers amid a slowdown in global demand and rising pressure on the country's exports from the U.S.-China trade war. Heightening downside risks for Japan's economy, including the effects of a hike in sales tax on consumption, will keep the central bank under pressure to ease again to sustain growth and meet its 2% inflation target. The Bank of Japan is likely to stand pat at its two-day rate review that ends on Thursday as stable markets, a truce in U.S.-China trade talks and robust domestic demand give it room to save its limited ammunition

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(Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday reached a settlement deal with Malaysian financier Jho Low to recover almost $1 billion (£776.10 million) in funds the fugitive and his family had misappropriated from Malaysian investment fund 1MDB. High-level officials of 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) and associates including Low had siphoned over $4.5 billion belonging to the state-owned wealth fund from 2009 to 2015, the Justice Department said.

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TOKYO (Reuters) - Oil prices fell for a fourth day on Wednesday, extending losses after a surge in U.S.

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By Stanley White TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares rose on Thursday and U.S. stock futures edged higher after the U.S. Federal Reserve cut interest rates as expected to keep economic expansion on track.

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SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said chip sales should pick up in 2020 as it reported a 56% fall in third-quarter operating profit on Thursday, reeling from memory price declines amid a prolonged industry downturn.

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By Andrea Shalal and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leaders from the United States and China encountered a new obstacle in their struggle to end a damaging trade war on Wednesday, when the summit where they were supposed to meet was cancelled because of violent protests. U.S. President Donald Trump said this week he hoped to sign an interim trade deal with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping during the Nov

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You might have used a foam roller to give yourself an after-workout massage, however, there are also some legit ways to workout with a foam roller.

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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Justice Minister Katsuyuki Kawai resigned on Thursday following media reports of election irregularities by his wife, who is a ruling party lawmaker, becoming the second cabinet minister to step down in less than a week. Kawai told reporters he had offered his resignation and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had accepted it. Kawai said he was stepping down to avoid harm to public trust in the justice system and would be looking into allegations against his wife's campaign.

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TOKYO (Reuters) - A fire broke out at Shuri Castle, a World Heritage Site on Japan's southern island of Okinawa, early on Thursday, completely destroying the main hall and other structures as firefighters continued to battle raging flames, media reported. Television footage showed the multi-structure castle reduced to a skeleton, shrouded in flames and smoke hours after emergency responders received the first call about the fire, around 2:47 a.m. (1747 GMT), public broadcaster NHK said

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By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Wednesday released its first images from last weekend's commando raid in Syria that led to the death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and warned the militant group may attempt to stage a "retribution attack." The declassified, grainy, black-and-white aerial videos from Saturday's raid showed U.S. special operations forces closing in on the compound and U.S

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SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd reported a 56% fall in third-quarter operating profit on Thursday, reeling from chip price declines in the face of a prolonged industry downturn. The world's top maker of memory chips and smartphones said operating profit was 7.8 trillion won (£5.20 billion), slightly above the 7.7 trillion won estimate the company released earlier.

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By Hilary Russ and Uday Sampath Kumar NEW YORK (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp beat Wall Street sales and revenue estimates on Wednesday, driven by new stores, digital ordering and delivery in China, and cold drinks in the United States. Total net revenue for the world's largest coffee chain rose 7% to $6.75 billion (£5.24 billion), higher than the average analyst estimate of $6.68 billion

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By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's longest-running measure of consumer sentiment slipped back to its joint-lowest level since 2013 this month, as Brexit uncertainty weighed again on households' assessment of the economic outlook. British consumers have generally remained upbeat since 2016's referendum to leave the EU - partly offsetting weaker business investment - but in recent weeks morale appears to have softened, boding poorly for spending in the run-up to Christmas. The GfK consumer sentiment dropped to -14 in October from -12 in September, a slightly bigger fall than economists had forecast in a Reuters poll

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By Elizabeth Culliford, Paresh Dave and Akanksha Rana (Reuters) - Facebook Inc reported an uptick in users in lucrative markets and its third-straight rise in quarterly sales growth on Wednesday, but the company's controversial political ads stole the limelight when CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke to analysts. Shares rose about 4% after hours to $196.50. That put the shares on track to eclipse their record closing high of $194.32 in June 2018, just before a dramatic drop that summer amid escalating costs

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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Justice Minister Katsuyuki Kawai is likely to resign following a media report of election irregularities by his wife, who is a ruling party lawmaker, public broadcaster NHK reported on Thursday. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had appointed Kawai as justice minister in a cabinet reshuffle last month. (Reporting by Stanley White, Hideyuki Sano; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)

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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's nominee to be U.S. ambassador to Russia said on Wednesday he had known Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, was involved in a campaign against then-Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch that helped lead to her dismissal. John Sullivan, a deputy secretary of state, said under questioning by ranking Democratic Senator Bob Menendez at his Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing that he knew Giuliani was involved before he was asked to remove Yovanovitch in May because Trump had lost confidence in her.

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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's ruling grand coalition needs to show it is in step with the times and can deliver in the next two years, Finance Minister and Social Democrat (SPD) leadership candidate Olaf Scholz told the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper. Scholz, who also serves as vice chancellor in the coalition, came first in a vote to elect a new SPD leader, the party said on Saturday, but he fell short of a majority.

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By Omar Younis and Andrew Hay SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (Reuters) - A herd of 500 goats helped save California's Ronald Reagan library from a wildfire on Wednesday, after the voracious animals earlier this year ate highly-flammable scrub surrounding the hilltop complex.

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Earlier this month, as many as 13 Air India unions including its pilots unions, Indian Pilots Guild (IPG) and Indian Commercial Pilots Association (ICPA), had discussions with the airline top management on the issue of privatisation

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The India-Saudi Arabia Strategic Partnership Council will be headed by Prime Minister Modi and Crown Prince Mohammed and meet every two years

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By Helen Coster and Lisa Richwine BURBANK, Calif. (Reuters) - AT&T Inc in May will launch its HBO Max streaming service with a new "Game of Thrones" series at the current HBO price of $15 a month in an aggressive move to battle Netflix, Disney and Apple for the future of TV.

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TOKYO (Reuters) - Hitachi Ltd unit Hitachi Automotive Systems and three Honda Motor Co-affiliated suppliers are considering a merger to create Japan's third-biggest auto-parts supplier by sales, four of the companies involved said on Wednesday. The move comes as carmakers struggle to adapt to technological change including the rise of electric vehicles and self-driving systems. Hitachi would be the majority shareholder in the new company, under which Hitachi Automotive Systems would be merged with Keihin Corp , Showa Corp and Nissin Kogyo Co , the Yomiuri newspaper reported earlier on Wednesday.

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By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese retail sales grew the most in 5-1/2 years in September, boosted by consumers accelerating spending to beat a national sales tax hike that kicked in this month, raising some concerns about a subsequent pullback in demand in the coming months. Japan implemented sales tax hike to 10% from 8% on Oct. 1, in a move seen as crucial for fixing the industrial world's heaviest public debt at more than twice the size of its economy

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By Hideyuki Sano TOKYO (Reuters) - A rally in global shares stalled, with Asian markets stuck in tight ranges early on Wednesday, as the prospect of a rate cut by the Federal Reserve was countered by worries a Sino-U.S. first-stage trade deal could be delayed. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was down 0.16% from Tuesday's three-month high while Japan's Nikkei slid 0.07% after hitting a one-year high the previous day

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By Helen Coster and Lisa Richwine BURBANK, Calif. (Reuters) - AT&T Inc executives on Tuesday said the company's HBO Max streaming video service will cost $15 per month -- the same price it currently charges for HBO -- when it launches in May 2020, marking an aggressive entry into the streaming wars

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By Julio-Cesar Chavez EL PASO, Texas (Reuters) - Immigration arrests at the U.S. border with Mexico soared 88 percent in fiscal 2019 in what U.S

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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu slammed a move by the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday to vote in favour of a resolution recognising the mass killings of Armenians a century ago as a "genocide", saying the decision was "null and void". The U.S.

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By Andrew Hay (Reuters) - When a fast-moving wildfire licked up to the fringes of the sprawling Getty Center complex on Tuesday, the staff of the Los Angeles museum betrayed no sign of panic, confident that its priceless art was safe and secure within its walls.

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(Reuters) - A major wildfire burning in Los Angeles near the famed Getty Center art museum was likely sparked by a tree branch falling on power lines in high winds, fire officials said on Tuesday.

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By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles firefighters took advantage of favorable weather on Tuesday as they raced to subdue a wildfire displacing thousands of hillside residents, while the state's biggest utility imposed yet another round of precautionary power outages in northern California. At opposite ends of the state, fire managers and utility operators were bracing for the latest onslaught of fierce, dry desert winds that were expected to begin howling across much of California again on Tuesday night

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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - China's U.N. Ambassador Zhang Jun warned on Tuesday that U.S. criticism at the world body of Beijing's policy in remote Xinjiang was not "helpful" for negotiations between the two countries on a trade deal.

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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A proposal to allow for the prosecution of Mexican presidents for a wide range of crimes overwhelmingly passed the lower house of Congress on Tuesday, giving the proposal backed by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador a shot of momentum. Under current law, presidents can only be prosecuted for treason.

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By Stephanie Nebehay and Babak Dehghanpisheh GENEVA (Reuters) - Iran and Russia on Tuesday condemned U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to maintain a military presence near oil fields in northeastern Syria, with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov saying any exploitation of resources would be illegal. Trump's suggestion on Sunday that Exxon Mobil Corp or another U.S.

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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's parliament will not vote on allowing EU citizens to take part in parliamentary elections or lowering the voting age to 16, according to an official document showing the provisional selection of amendments on Tuesday. Parliament is debating a law which would call an early general election on Dec. 12.

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(Reuters) - Australia's consumer regulator said on Tuesday it has started court proceedings against Alphabet Inc's Google for allegedly misleading consumers about the personal location data it uses. "The ACCC (Australian Competition & Consumer Commission) claims that from at least January 2017, Google breached the Australian Consumer Law when it made on-screen representations on Android mobile phones and tablets...," the regulator said in a statement

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(Reuters) - An earthquake of 6.7 magnitude struck 58 kilometres (36 miles) southwest of Davao in southern Philippines on Tuesday, according to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC). (Reporting by Himani Sarkar; Editing by Edmund Klamann)

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NGHE AN, Vietnam (Reuters) - The countryside in the Vietnamese provinces of Nghe An and Ha Tinh is dotted with billboards for labour export companies advertising jobs or study overseas. Thousands of people respond to the lure of a better life abroad every year, but many take the underground route - via smugglers and sometimes dangerous journeys by sea and road. That phenomenon is now in sharp focus after 39 bodies were discovered in a truck outside London last week

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By Lisa Richwine and Omar Younis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A fast-moving wildfire on Monday destroyed at least five multimillion-dollar homes in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Los Angeles and forced celebrities to flee in the middle of the night. Among neighborhoods under evacuation orders was the posh area of Brentwood, a section on the west side of the city that became world famous in 1994 when former football star O.J.

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By Tim Kelly TOKYO (Reuters) - On a wooded lake shore in northern Japan, the government is building a modernist shrine that has divided the indigenous Ainu community whose vanishing culture it was designed to celebrate. At a cost so far of $220 million (£171.07 million), Japan's "Symbolic Space for Ethnic Harmony" is on track to open in time for the 2020 Olympics, part of a drive by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to draw millions of foreign visitors to Japan and to the northern city of Sapporo, where the Olympic marathon will be run.

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By Ahmed Rasheed and Ahmed Aboulenein BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The killing of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is of considerable importance, experts believe, but the underlying reasons for his jihadist group's existence remain and attacks in the Middle East and beyond are not likely to stop. Baghdadi's death at the hands of the United States is likely to cause Islamic State to splinter, leaving whoever emerges as its new leader with the task of pulling the ultra hardline group back together as a fighting force

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By Dave Sherwood and Natalia A. Ramos Miranda SANTIAGO (Reuters) - President Sebastian Pinera faced new protests on Monday after he replaced eight cabinet members including his interior and finance ministers, a house-cleaning aimed at taming the biggest political crisis since Chile's return to democracy in 1990

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Iraqi Defence Minister Najah al-Shammari said on Tuesday a missile fell near a military base hosting U.S. forces north of Baghdad but caused no damage.

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By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) - Asian shares scaled a three-month high on Tuesday after Wall Street hit all-time peaks amid hopes of progress in Sino-U.S. trade talks and for another dose of policy stimulus from the Federal Reserve this week

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By Yoshiyasu Shida and Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) - Core consumer prices in Tokyo, a leading indicator of nationwide inflation, rose 0.5% in October from a year earlier, data showed on Tuesday, staying distant from the Bank of Japan's elusive 2% target and keeping it under pressure to ramp up stimulus.

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