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By Kate Abnett, Gloria Dickie and William James SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) -Government ministers and negotiators from nearly 200 countries on Tuesday began the slog of finding common ground for a deal at the annual U.N. climate summit, as host country Egypt assured that the slow-moving talks were on track. Some delegates began to discuss the possibility the summit would go overtime into the weekend, with countries snagged on issues including funding for developing nations to combat and adapt to climate change. The G77 bloc of developing countries and China are proposing a loss and damage fund should be created to provide money to countries already hit by climate disasters, a draft text of their proposal to the COP27 summit showed. The subject has for the first time made it onto the official COP agenda, after years of resistance from rich nations concerned it could open them up to limitless liabilities for contributing the bulk of historic greenhouse gas emissions. Egypt s speci ....