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Trump signs order threatening tariffs on nations doing business with Iran
WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday that may impose a 25% tariff on countries that do business with Iran.
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Football
Soccer-Leeds beat Forest 3-1 to move nine points clear of relegation zone
LEEDS, England, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Dominic Calvert-Lewin scored his 10th Premier League goal of the season as hosts Leeds United claimed an emphatic 3-1 victory over Nottingham Forest at Elland Road on Friday to move nine points clear of the relegation zone.
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World
Jailed Venezuelan protesters could all be free by next Friday, top lawmaker says
Feb 6 (Reuters) - The head of Venezuela's National Assembly, Jorge Rodriguez, said on Friday that all prisoners expected to be granted clemency by a pending amnesty law could walk free within a week.
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World
UN says drone targets WFP convoy in Sudan's North Kordofan
KHARTOUM, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations (UN) said on Friday that a World Food Programme (WFP) convoy came under attack by a drone in Sudan's North Kordofan state.
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World
Urgent: Italian President Mattarella declares Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics open
MILAN, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- Italian President Sergio Mattarella declared the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games open on Friday.
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World
Exclusive-US aims for March peace deal in Ukraine, quick elections, sources say
KYIV, Feb 6 (Reuters) - U.S. and Ukrainian negotiators have discussed an ambitious March goal for Russia and Ukraine to agree on a peace deal, though that timeline is likely to slip given a lack of agreement on the key issue of territory, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
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1st LD: Dow tops 50,000 in snapback of U.S. stock markets
NEW YORK, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- The Dow Jones Industrial Average topped 50,000 points for the first time on Friday as sentiment improved and investors bought after corrections in previous sessions.
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World
U.S. dollar ticks down
NEW YORK, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. dollar weakened in late trading on Friday.
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World
India rejects any allegations of involvement in Pakistan bombing, foreign ministry says
Feb 6 (Reuters) - India said it rejected "any and every" allegation of involvement in a bombing at a mosque in Islamabad on Friday, that killed at least 31 people, saying such claims were baseless and pointless.
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World
US moves to deport 5-year-old detained in Minnesota
WASHINGTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said on Friday it is seeking to deport a 5-year-old Ecuadorean boy who was detained in Minnesota last month.
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World
Urgent: Dow tops 50,000 in snapback of U.S. stock markets
NEW YORK, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- The Dow Jones Industrial Average topped 50,000 points for the first time on Friday as sentiment improved and investors bought after corrections in previous sessions.
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Other Sports
Olympics-Italy's president takes the tram in video tribute to Milan transport
MILAN, Feb 6 (Reuters) - At the London 2012 Olympics, Queen Elizabeth appeared to parachute into the stadium for the opening ceremony.
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World
Coe backs dispersed model at Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics
MILAN, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- Sebastian Coe, head of World Athletics and an International Olympic Committee (IOC) member, believes the geographically spread-out model used for the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games is "a good approach."
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World
U.S. Congress delegation to visit Greenland
NUUK, Greenland, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- A delegation of U.S. lawmakers is set to visit Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, this weekend, the U.S. Consulate in Nuuk said in a press release on Friday.
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U.S. takes early lead in figure skating team event at Milan-Cortina 2026
MILAN, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- The United States sat on top while China provisionally ranked ninth in team event after the first-day competition of figure skating at the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games here on Friday.
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Other Sports
Olympics-Ski Jumping-Norway team react with scepticism to bizarre penis-enhancement claims
PREDAZZO, Italy, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Norwegian ski jumpers greeted with scepticism suggestions that anti-doping officials must now police their anatomy as well as their equipment, after regulators said they would stay alert to rumours of athletes artificially enlarging their genitals to exploit suit rules at the Milano Cortina Olympics.
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World
Ethiopia's Addis Ababa sees nearly 700,000 int'l arrivals in 6 months
ADDIS ABABA, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- Nearly 700,000 foreign tourists visited the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, during the first six months of the current Ethiopian fiscal year that began on July 8, 2025, according to local authorities.
