| | | High-level U.S. visit leads North Korea to free student in coma | | | WASHINGTON/CINCINNATI (Reuters) - Otto Warmbier, an American university student held prisoner in North Korea for 17 months and said by his family to be in a coma, was medically evacuated from the reclusive country after a rare visit there from a high-level U.S. official. |
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| | | U.S., Europe seek measures to avert expanded airline laptop ban | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will meet European officials this week to discuss new security measures that could prevent the U.S. government expanding a ban on laptops beyond flights from ten airports primarily in the Middle East. |
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| | | Cubans fret new Trump policy will dampen tourism boom | | | HAVANA (Reuters) - Edi Coba says he is not sure his new rooftop bar in the heart of Old Havana that buzzes at night with hip, tattooed young Americans will survive if U.S. President Donald Trump tightens restrictions on travel to Communist-run Cuba. |
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| | | Two inmates on the run in Georgia after killing guards | | | (Reuters) - Police in Georgia mounted an intense search on Tuesday for two escaped inmates who overpowered and shot to death a pair of armed guards aboard a prison bus, then fled with both officers' guns into the surrounding countryside, authorities said. |
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| | | Race for governor in Virginia set after tight primary race | | | RICHMOND, Va. (Reuters) - Virginia's lieutenant governor will face a former Republican national committee chairman in a November general election to become the state's next governor in a race seen as a bellwether for next year's mid-term congressional races. |
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| | | Baltimore to flood streets with police after rash of killings | | | (Reuters) - Baltimore police will put more officers on the street to battle a surge in killings that included six homicides in seven hours this week, part of a wave of deadly violence not seen in the port city in years, authorities said on Tuesday. |
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| | | Cuomo initiative to protect New York tenants wins court backing | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York state judge has upheld the legal authority of the Tenant Protection Unit, a key initiative of Governor Andrew Cuomo to protect rent-regulated tenants from overcharges, harassment and intimidation by unscrupulous landlords. |
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