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Facing deadlock, WTO negotiations grind on despite Indian defiance

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By Philip Blenkinsop and Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -The World Trade Organization negotiations on food, fisheries and vaccines stretched into the early hours on Thursday amid growing doubts that tough bargaining could deliver deals in the face of Indian intransigence. During the WTO’s ministerial conference this week, its first major meeting in over four years, the 164-member body is seeking to agree a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a reduction of fishing subsidies, food security pledges and the launch of internal reform in a package of deals badly needed to prove the body’s relevance. “T…

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