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• Exclusive: Walmart to make first direct pitch to big corporate ad buyers at New York event 05/22/2019
  Walmart Inc will meet large consumer goods companies and advertising firms for the first time in New York next week to pitch its advertising business, as the world's largest retailer aims to rev up its website and stores as a platform for other companies to reach customers.
• Risk of nuclear war now highest since WW2, U.N. arms research chief says 05/22/2019
  The risk of nuclear weapons being used is at its highest since World War Two, a senior U.N. security expert said on Tuesday, calling it an "urgent" issue that the world should take more seriously.
• Asia stocks fragile as trade anxiety overshadows Huawei reprieve 05/22/2019
  Asian stocks were on shaky ground on Wednesday, as earlier relief over Washington's temporary relaxation of curbs against China's Huawei Technologies failed to offset deeper worries about trade frictions between the world's two largest economies.
• China ready for further U.S. trade talks, ambassador says 05/22/2019
  Beijing is ready to resume trade talks with Washington, China's ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai said, as a top U.S. business lobby in China said nearly half its members are seeing non-tariff barrier retaliation in China due to the trade war.
• Hundreds rally at U.S. Supreme Court, calling state abortion bans as step backward 05/22/2019
  Abortion-rights campaigners, including Democrats seeking their party's 2020 presidential nomination, rallied at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to protest new restrictions on abortion passed by Republican-dominated legislatures in eight states.
• In an Indian village, Muslims talk of leaving as divide with Hindus widens 05/22/2019
  Muslims in Nayabans, an unremarkable village in northern India, say they remember a time when their children played with Hindu youths, and people from either faith chatted when they frequented each other's shops and went to festivals together.
• Congress presses Trump administration for Mueller's counterintelligence files 05/22/2019
  U.S. lawmakers are pressuring the Justice Department for access to counterintelligence reports generated by Special Counsel Robert Mueller during his investigation of President Donald Trump and his associates, two congressional sources said on Tuesday.
• Huawei accuses U.S. of bullying, says working with Google to respond to ban 05/22/2019
  Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei called itself the victim of U.S. "bullying" on Tuesday and said it was working with Google to respond to trade restrictions imposed by Washington last week, a senior Huawei executive said.