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PARIS (Reuters) - France's CFDT union will take part in the next wave of rolling strikes over reform of the state-run SNCF railways, its leader Laurent Berger said on Thursday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2q6cqte via IFTTT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump agreed in a National Security Council meeting this week to keep U.S. troops in Syria a little longer to defeat Islamic State but wants them out relatively soon, a senior administration official said on Wednesday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2GuyGYK via IFTTT

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia long saw Donald Trump as the wild card in its strategy to improve relations with the United States. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2GAFq7C via IFTTT

YANGON (Reuters) - Lawyers for two Reuters reporters jailed in Myanmar asked a judge on Wednesday to dismiss the case against them, arguing there was insufficient evidence to support charges of obtaining secret government papers. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2JfAuT8 via IFTTT

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government faced criticism on Thursday, after his defense minister said the army last year found activity logs from a controversial 2004 to 2006 deployment to Iraq, but had failed to report them to his predecessor. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2q8uKTi via IFTTT

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine Communist guerrillas are willing to resume peace talks with the government after President Rodrigo Duterte revived the idea but reject any preconditions, their leader said on Thursday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2q88ZlX via IFTTT

TOKYO (Reuters) - International casino operators have welcomed an agreement by Japan's ruling coalition over key points needed to finalize legislation of large "integrated" resorts, which are expected to generate billions of dollars for the country and the industry. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2EkDmL4 via IFTTT

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is unwell and has canceled a visit to London next week for annual economic talks, two government officials said on Thursday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2q7iKRa via IFTTT

YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Cameroon security forces freed 18 hostages kidnapped in the restive Southwest region, including seven Swiss and five Italian nationals, the government spokesman said in a statement late on Tuesday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2GNKmp5 via IFTTT

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - An Islamist militant suspected of committing war crimes in Mali is due to appear before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague on Wednesday, three days after the Malian authorities handed him over into the court's custody last week. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2q33XHU via IFTTT

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The British delegation to the global chemical weapons body on Wednesday dismissed a Russian proposal for a joint U.K.-Russian investigation into the Salisbury poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal as "perverse". from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2q5EgWq via IFTTT

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebel group Jaish al-Islam released five prisoners on Wednesday as part of a deal over the eastern Ghouta town of Douma, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2JiDPkD via IFTTT

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's anti-establishment 5-Star Movement proposed a German-style governing contract with two of its rivals as formal talks aimed at seating a government began on Wednesday, a month after an election ended with a hung parliament. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2H7YBmj via IFTTT