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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nearly 75 U.S. lawmakers from President Joe Biden's Democratic party on Tuesday praised his pause on approvals of exports of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, saying it would protect Americans from pollution and potential higher prices.

Senators Jeffrey Merkley, Edward Markey and Representative Jared Huffman spearheaded a letter to Biden saying the pause allows the government to study whether the additional exports could saddle... (continue reading...)

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A massive tree fell across one of Kuala Lumpur's busiest roads on Tuesday, killing a man, hurting two others, disrupting monorail services and damaging more than a dozen cars, officials said.

Videos and photos on social media showed the tree uprooted and toppled across the Jalan Sultan Ismail road in heavy traffic, about a kilometre (0.62 mile) from the iconic Petronas Twin Towers.

The body of a 47-year-old... (continue reading...)

By Maximilian Heath and Matias Baglietto

CORDOBA PROVINCE, Argentina (Reuters) - Global warming has brought Argentina's corn farmers a dangerous new enemy: a yellow insect just four millimeters (0.16 inch) long that thrives in hotter temperatures and is threatening harvests of the crop. Meet the leafhopper.

The world's No. 3 corn exporting country has slashed millions of tons from its harvest projections for the current crop due to a rare... (continue reading...)

By Santiago Limachi

SAN PEDRO DE MACHA, Bolivia (Reuters) - In the high altitude Bolivian town of San Pedro de Macha, hundreds of Indigenous Quechua men and women take to the streets for a ritual dance and combat known as the "Tinku", involving hand-to-hand combat between neighbors to settle disputes.

The Tinku, a word that in Quechua means "encounter" and in the local Aymara dialect "physical attack," is celebrated in certain Quechua... (continue reading...)

(Reuters) -Nikola missed Wall Street expectations for first-quarter revenue on Tuesday, as the electric truck maker delivered fewer hydrogen fuel cell trucks amid an uncertain macroeconomic outlook and reduced spending by customers.

The company reported revenue of $7.5 million, missing expectations of $15.8 million, according to LSEG data. Its shares, which were up around 4% before the bell, pared gains.

Nikola is finding it tough to sell its... (continue reading...)