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By Luc Cohen

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The prosecutors who won last week's historic conviction of Donald Trump on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star on Wednesday urged a judge to keep a gag order in place at least through the former U.S. president's July 11 sentencing.

Trump's lawyers earlier this week asked Justice Juan Merchan to lift the order restricting the Republican presidential candidate's public statements about... (continue reading...)

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel reiterated on Wednesday its refusal to halt the Gaza offensive for a resumption of hostage-release talks with Hamas, after mediator Qatar said it had given the Palestinian militants a U.S.-backed truce proposal.

Efforts to wind down the almost eight-month-old war have stumbled over Israel's declared aim of eliminating Hamas as a governing and military force, while Hamas has given no sign it would step down and wants the... (continue reading...)

(Reuters) - Toyota Alabama said on Wednesday it was investing $282 million in Huntsville, Alabama to add new production lines, which will generate around 350 new jobs.

This brings the total investment in Toyota Alabama to more than $1.7 billion, the automaker said.

(Reporting by Pratyush Thakur in Bengaluru; Editing by Shilpi Majumdar)

By Francois Murphy

VIENNA (Reuters) -The U.N. nuclear watchdog's 35-nation Board of Governors passed a resolution on Wednesday calling on Iran to step up cooperation with the watchdog and reverse its recent barring of inspectors despite concerns Tehran would respond with atomic escalation.

The resolution was passed by a vote of 20 in favour and two against with 12 abstentions, diplomats said. It follows up on the last resolution 18 months ago... (continue reading...)

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's ruling MORENA party and its allies will likely have 83 senators in the next Congress after last Sunday's vote, just shy of the two-thirds majority needed to change the constitution, the interior minister said on Wednesday, citing preliminary results.

Mexico's upper chamber of Congress totals 128 members.

Uncertainty over the makeup of the next Congress, which takes office in September, roiled markets... (continue reading...)