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SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Several Shanghai residents received fresh stay-at-home orders and mandatory testing notices on Tuesday as authorities raced to trace contacts linked to a COVID-positive woman whose visit to the city’s Disney Resort prompted its temporary lockdown. In the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou, meanwhile, Apple iPhone manufacturer Foxconn announced a big increase in…

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By Shivam Patel MORBI, India (Reuters) – A security guard stood at either end of a 145-year-old footbridge in the Indian town of Morbi on Sunday evening, blowing whistles and repeatedly asking surging crowds to get off the structure spanning the murky Machchhu river, witnesses said. One of the six people who saw the bridge…

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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Denmark’s former prime minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen looked set to become king-maker following an election on Tuesday in which neither the ruling left nor the right-wing opposition looked set win a majority in parliament, according to an exit poll. The result could for the first time in more than four decades pave way…

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By Ricardo Brito and Brian Ellsworth BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro will not contest his electoral defeat and plans to address the nation later on Tuesday, his Communications Minister Fabio Faria told Reuters, as a growing number of political allies advised him to concede. Some of Bolsonaro’s hardline supporters have called for…

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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -There was “nothing nefarious” about former private equity executive Tom Barrack’s ties with United Arab Emirates officials, Barrack’s defense lawyer said during closing arguments on Tuesday, denying prosecutors’ charges the onetime ally of former U.S. President Donald Trump was an illegal foreign agent. Randall Jackson, Barrack’s lawyer, said there…

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