Australian election seen as a dead heat, minor parties likely powerbrokers

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia braced for an election that was too close to call on Friday, with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull warning of economic chaos if his gamble on an early poll backfires and leaves him without the outright majority he needs to enact major reforms.

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Oracle ordered to pay HP $3 billion in Itanium case

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A California jury ordered Oracle Corp to pay Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co $3 billion (2.25 billion pounds) in damages in a case over HP's Itanium servers, an Oracle spokeswoman said on Thursday.

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Trump floats idea of using NATO in fight against Islamic State

WASHINGTON - Republican Donald Trump said on Thursday that if elected president Nov. 8 he would be open to drawing NATO forces into the fight against Islamic State militants in a new mission for an alliance he has called obsolete.

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U.S. opens investigation in Tesla after fatal crash in Autopilot mode

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A fatal accident in which the driver of a Tesla Motors Inc Model S operating in Autopilot mode was killed in a collision with a truck has prompted an investigation by federal highway safety regulators, the U.S. government and Tesla disclosed on Thursday.

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Hopes for democracy crushed in the Chinese rebel village of Wukan

WUKAN, China (Reuters) - Hopes for democracy in the Chinese village of Wukan, where an uprising against corruption five years ago gained global notice and led to direct village-wide elections, have all but evaporated, with protest leaders either in detention, in exile, facing arrest or quitting their posts.

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Corbyn has slim support of party members - poll

LONDON (Reuters) - The leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, has the support of half his party's grassroots members, a poll published on Thursday showed, as he faces intense pressure to resign or face a leadership challenge.

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U.S., Russia discuss Syria cooperation if Assad halts some strikes

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration is considering a plan to coordinate air strikes on Nusra Front and Islamic State militants in Syria if Syria'a government stops bombing moderate rebels, U.S. officials said on Thursday.

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Fidelity to move 100 jobs from London to Dublin

(Reuters) - Fund manager Fidelity plans to move around 100 jobs from Britain to Dublin as a part of its long-term strategy, a spokesperson said in an email to Reuters.

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U.S. sailors divulged sensitive information while held by Iran - Navy

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. sailors who blundered into Iranian waters in January divulged sensitive information to their captors while held at gunpoint by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a U.S. Navy report said on Thursday.

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S&P cuts rating on EU to 'AA' after Brexit

(Reuters) - Standard & Poor's Global Ratings said on Thursday it had cut its long-term credit rating on the European Union to 'AA' from 'AA+' but raised its outlook to "stable" from "negative" after the United Kingdom voted to leave the bloc.

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Hershey rejects $23 billion Mondelez takeover offer

(Reuters) - Hershey Co said on Thursday it had rejected a $23 billion (17.37 billion pounds) preliminary offer by Mondelez International Inc that would seek to expand the latter's U.S. footprint and create the world's largest confectioner.

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Analysis - Drama in store as Zlatan writes final chapter

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Zlatan Ibrahimovic is poised to write the final chapter in a glittering career with Manchester United in England's Premier League and although drama is guaranteed, a happy ending is not.

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Palestinian kills teen in Israeli settlement, then shot dead

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A Palestinian fatally stabbed a 13-year-old Israeli girl in her bedroom in a settlement in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, the military said, as international sponsors of frozen peace talks prepared to issue a report on the impasse.

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