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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine President Javier Milei will travel next week to the Group of Seven (G7) summit in Italy, a spokesman for the libertarian leader told Reuters on Thursday, contradicting reports that he had backed out of the trip.

Milei will return to Argentina after the summit, set to take place from June 13-15, the spokesman said. The president will return to Europe at a later date, he said.

A Milei-backed package of... (continue reading...)

By Dietrich Knauth

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has asked a U.S. judge to convert his bankruptcy into a Chapter 7 liquidation, giving up on an effort to settle massive legal judgments related to his lies about the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.

Jones believes that "there is no reasonable prospect of a successful reorganization" of his debts, most of which stem from $1.5 billion awarded in defamation... (continue reading...)

SEOUL (Reuters) - A Samsung Electronics union in South Korea is due to stage on Friday the first walkout at the technology giant, but some analysts did not expect the labour action over pay and conditions to have a major impact on chip production.

The National Samsung Electronics Union (NSEU), which has about 28,000 members, or more than a fifth of the company's total workforce, has said it will stop work for a day as part of broader protest... (continue reading...)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican former U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he may impose tariffs on countries, including China, that do not curb the flow of undocumented immigrants from their territory to the United States, if he wins the election in November.

Trump made the remarks at an event while responding to an audience question and did not specify how much tariff he would impose in such a scenario.

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By Siddharth Cavale

BENTONVILLE, Arkansas (Reuters) - Paper shelf price labels are going away at thousands of Walmart stores.

The company on Thursday announced an expanded roll-out of digital shelf labels that will allow it to update prices on over 120,000 items within minutes.

Weekly updates to paper shelf labels typically took a store worker about two days. With digital labels, prices can be updated within two minutes... (continue reading...)