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  Ready or not, Indian businesses brace for biggest-ever tax reform

  Reuters . Meerut, India | Updated at 10:23pm on June 28, 2017

  Businessman Pankaj Jain is so worried about the impending launch of a new sales tax in India that he is thinking of shutting down his...

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  Colombia's FARC rebels turn in weapons, end armed war with government

  Reuters | Updated at 08:45am on June 28, 2017

  Colombia's Marxist FARC rebels concluded their disarmament on Tuesday, handing in all but a few of their individual weapons to the United Nations and ending...

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  Helicopter attacks Venezuela Supreme Court

  Reuters | Updated at 09:10am on June 28, 2017

  A Venezuelan police helicopter attacked the Supreme Court on Tuesday, ratcheting up a political crisis in what president Nicolas Maduro condemned as a ‘terrorist’ attack...

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  EU slaps Google with record $2.7b fine

  Reuters | Updated at 05:50pm on June 27, 2017

  Google has been fined 2.42bn euros ($2.7bn; £2.1bn) by the European Commission after it ruled the company had abused its power by...

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  The Bangladeshi professor defending nature with his life

  Reuters | Updated at 05:26pm on June 27, 2017

  Veteran Bangladeshi academic-activist Anu Muhammad is no stranger to death threats, beatings, persecution and arrest so when the professor of...

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  Brazil's president Michel Temer charged with taking bribes

  Reuters | Updated at 09:25am on June 27, 2017

  Brazil's top federal prosecutor charged president Michel Temer with taking multimillion-dollar bribes on Monday in a stinging blow to the unpopular leader and to political...

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  Trump urges India's Modi to fix deficit, but stresses strong ties

  Reuters | Updated at 09:05am on June 27, 2017

  US president Donald Trump urged Indian prime minister Narendra Modi to do more to relax Indian trade barriers on Monday during talks in which both...

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  May strikes one billion pound deal to get DUP support

  Reuters | Updated at 05:15pm on June 26, 2017

  British prime minister Theresa May struck a deal on Monday to prop up her minority government by agreeing to 1 billion pounds ($1.3 billion) in...

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  Chinese Nobel rights activist Liu Xiaobo released on medical parole

  Reuters | Updated at 03:16pm on June 26, 2017

  Chinese Nobel Peace Prize winning rights activist Liu Xiaobo has been released from prison on medical parole and is being treated in...

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  Nine dead after Colombia tourist boat sinks in reservoir

  Reuters | Updated at 11:24am on June 26, 2017

  Nine people died and 28 remained missing after a multi-decked tourist boat carrying about 170 passengers sank in Colombia's Penol-Guatape reservoir on Sunday during the...