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TOP STORIES

GLOBAL

CHINA-PROPERTY/

China Evergrande loses $2.4 bln in value as trade resumes after 17 months

HONG KONG, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Shares of China Evergrande Group fell as much as 87% early on Monday when trading resumed following a 17-month suspension, wiping out almost $2.4 billion of its value, after saying it had "adequately" fulfilled all guidance issued by the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

CHINA-MARKETS/

China halves stamp duty on stock trades to boost flagging market

BEIJING/SHANGHAI, Aug 27 (Reuters) - China halved the stamp duty on stock trading effective Monday in the latest attempt to boost the struggling market as a recovery sputters in the world's second-biggest economy.

U.S.

USA-CHINA/

Raimondo: crucial US, China have stable economic relationship

BEIJING, Aug 28 (Reuters) - U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo opened talks with Chinese government officials on Monday, saying it is "profoundly important" for the world's two largest economies to have a stable economic relationship.

FLORIDA-SHOOTING/

Jacksonville shooter killed Black shoppers with legally purchased guns

WASHINGTON, Aug 27 (Reuters) - The white gunman who shot and killed three Black people at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida on Saturday was a 21-year-old who bought his guns legally and had no criminal history, local law enforcement said on Sunday.

BUSINESS

AUSTRALIA-ECONOMY/

Australia retail sales rebound after fall, annual rate slows further

SYDNEY, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Australian retail sales rebounded in July after a sharp fall the previous month, but the annual rate slowed further, a result that should not upset the outlook for interest rates as high borrowing costs work to slow consumer spending.

BYD-CHINA/

BYD unit buys US firm Jabil's China mobility business for $2.2 bln

Chinese automaker BYD said on Monday its electronics unit has struck a deal with U.S.-based manufacturer Jabil Inc to buy its mobility business in China for 15.8 billion yuan ($2.2 billion).

LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT

PEOPLE-BOB BARKER/

Bob Barker, long-time US TV game show host, dies at age 99

Bob Barker, an affable fixture on U.S. television for half a century who hosted the popular game show "The Price Is Right" for 35 years and was a committed animal rights activist, has died at age 99, his publicist said.

NETHERLANDS-REDHEADS/

Thousands of redheads celebrate at annual festival in the Netherlands

TILBURG, The Netherlands, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Thousands of people gathered in the Netherlands this weekend to celebrate their red hair at the annual Redhead Days Festival in the southern town of Tilburg.

SPORTS

RUGBY-UNION-FRA-AUS/

Jones looks on the bright side despite yet another Australia loss

PARIS, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Coach Eddie Jones looked for the positives despite Australia losing for a fifth straight game under his new reign on Sunday, beaten 41-17 by France in their World Cup warm-up to leave the Wallabies with their backs to the wall ahead of next month’s tournament.

ATHLETICS-WORLD/

Ukraine's Mahuchikh soars to world championship victory in women's high jump

BUDAPEST, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Yaroslava Mahuchikh sailed to victory in the women's high jump on Sunday for Ukraine's lone gold medal of the World Athletics Championships, a remarkable achievement in a season disrupted by the war in her homeland.

UPCOMING

BUSINESS / ECONOMICS

CHINA-MARKETS/PROXIES (PIX)

China-linked assets squeezed as slowdown ripples across markets

Investors digging beyond China's official data find their models flashing alarm about the state of the world's second biggest economy and are backing out of exposed assets around the world. Selling is sucking the wind out of stock markets from London to Bangkok and weighing on China proxies from the Australian dollar to New Zealand dairy prices and shares from LVMH to miner BHP and casino Las Vegas Sands.

28 Aug 06:00 ET / 10:00 GMT

USA-FED/JACKSON HOLE-ECONOMY (PIX)

Post-pandemic, world facing gloomy stew of debt, trade wars, and poor productivity

Record levels of government debt, geopolitical tensions that threaten to split the global trading system, and the likely persistence of weak productivity gains may saddle the world with a slow-growth future that stunts development in some countries even before it starts, economists at a research symposium here argued in a sobering look at post-pandemic economics.

28 Aug 10:00 ET / 14:00 GMT

TESLA-TRIAL/ (PIX)

Tesla braces for its first trial involving Autopilot fatality

Tesla Inc is set to defend itself for the first time at trial against allegations that failure of its Autopilot driver assistant feature led to death, in what will likely be a major test of Chief Executive Elon Musk's assertions about the technology.

28 Aug 10:00 ET / 14:00 GMT

BRAZIL-GRAINS/

AgRural releases data on Brazil's corn harvest

Agribusiness consultancy AgRural updates the progress of Brazil's bumper 2022/23 second corn crop. Until August 17, according to the consultancy, 77% of the planted area in the centre-south region had been reaped, below the 89% seen a year earlier.

28 Aug 12:00 ET / 16:00 GMT

MEXICO-ECONOMY/TRADEFIGURES

Mexico-Trade balance

Mexico's statistics agency INEGI reports the country's trade balance relative to July. Economists polled by Reuters forecast a deficit of $1.68 billion.

28 Aug 12:00 ET / 16:00 GMT

USA-FED/BARR

Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Barr participates in banking services discussion in Pablo, Mont.

Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michael Barr participates in "Banking Services" roundtable discussion with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Council, in Pablo, Mont.

28 Aug 16:30 ET / 20:30 GMT

USA-USDA/CROPPROGRESS

USDA issues weekly Crop Progress

USDA issues weekly Crop Progress.

28 Aug 20:00 ET / 00:00 GMT

ARTS / CULTURE / ENTERTAINMENT

ART- CHEWING GUM/WILSON (PIX) (TV)

Chewing gum artist paints 'hidden world beneath their feet'

British artist Ben Wilson creates a "hidden world beneath their feet" by painting discarded chewing gum on London's iconic Millennium Bridge and reveals the artistic process to Reuters back at his studio.

28 Aug 07:00 ET / 11:00 GMT

POLITICS / INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

GERMANY-POLITICS/

Germanys Green Bundestag lawmakers in to meet in Berlin for two-day retreat.

28 Aug 08:00 ET / 12:00 GMT

GERMANY-DIGITAL/

Bitkom presser on Germanys digital strategy

28 Aug 08:00 ET / 12:00 GMT

CLIMATE-CHANGE/UN-CHILDREN

UN to release guidance on children's rights and climate change

A U.N. body will release a long-awaited paper giving guidance on children's human rights and climate change.

28 Aug 10:00 ET / 14:00 GMT

USA-TRUMP/GEORGIA-MEADOWS (PIX)

Hearing on Mark Meadows' petition to move the Fulton County case to federal court

A federal judge has scheduled a hearing on former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows' petition to move the Fulton County case to federal court in the 2020 election case.

28 Aug 14:00 ET / 18:00 GMT

CANADA-POLITICS/ (PIX)

Canada's Conservative leader touts family image after Trudeau separates from wife

Less than a week after Canada's Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the likely end of his marriage nL8N3A2474, his Conservative rival Pierre Poilievre launched a video advertisement narrated by his wife touting him as the leader the country needs.

28 Aug 14:00 ET / 18:00 GMT

USA-TRUMP/ (PIX)

Trump lawyers due for hearing in election-interference case Lawyers for Donald Trump are due in Washington court for hearing ahead of his trial on federal charges of orchestrating plot to try to overturn his 2020 election loss in what U.S. prosecutors call unprecedented effort by then-president to undermine pillars of American democracy.

28 Aug 14:00 ET / 18:00 GMT

CONFLICTS / WAR / PEACE

UKRAINE-CRISIS/CZECH-KULEBA

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Kuleba visits Prague

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba meets his Czech counterpart Jan Lipavsky, he will also address the annual gathering of Czech ambassadors at the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A joint presser scheduled at 3:00 p.m. (1300 GMT)

28 Aug 13:00 ET / 17:00 GMT

CRIME / LAW / JUSTICE

USA-TRUMP/ (PIX)

US judge weighs trial date for Trump on charges of trying to overturn 2020 election

Lawyers for former U.S. president Donald Trump and prosecutors from Special Counsel Jack Smith's office appear in U.S. District Judge Chutkan's court for first time to set trial date in the case alleging Trump sought to overturn results of the 2020 election. Trump is not expected to attend.

28 Aug 14:00 ET / 18:00 GMT

CANADA-CYBER/

Canadian security officials release report into cyber crime

Top Canadian secuirty officials will release a report into cybercrime.

28 Aug 15:00 ET / 19:00 GMT