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‘Investment, not tariffs,’ says Ishiba after telephone talks with Trump before 3rd round of talks
Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Friday that he held telephone talks with U.S. President Donald Trump and agreed to ...
In New Zealand’s Parliament, a battered cookie tin decides which new laws get debated
Under the scrutiny of a black-robed official and before a hushed audience, a decorative cookie tin rattles like a bingo drum.
Trump relishes uttering the outlandish. Here’s where some of his most showstopping comments stand
It may start as a casual aside, a wee-hours social post or a much-hyped announcement. Whatever the delivery mechanism, ...
A Norwegian man awoke to find a grounded cargo ship had narrowly missed his home
A Norwegian man awoke to find that a cargo ship had run aground and narrowly missed crashing into his home along the Trondheim Fjord’s coast. Johan Helberg told Norwegian ...
Feted by school children, tossing out a first pitch: Former Israeli hostage grapples with celebrity
Three months after his release from Hamas captivity, Omer Shem Tov stood on the pitcher’s mound at a Boston Red Sox game.
Whitecaps have best home record in baseball
The Whitecaps finished their game against the Loons and won 2-1. Then they resumed their regularly-scheduled game and win 7-1 ...
US investment firm Redbird agrees to buy Britain’s venerable Telegraph newspaper
A consortium led by U.S. investment firm RedBird Capital Partners has agreed to buy the publisher of Britain’s 170-year-old Daily Telegraph newspaper for about 500 million pounds ...
Scarlett Johansson debuts as a director in Cannes with a comic tale of grief and empathy
Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut, “Eleanor the Great,” stars June Squibb as a 94-year-old woman who, out of grief and ...
Louisiana stifles community air monitoring with threat of million-dollar fines, federal lawsuit says
On days of heavy pollution in Sulphur, a southwest Louisiana town surrounded by more than 16 industrial plants, Cynthia ...
Indigenous Amazon tribe says New York Times story led to its members being smeared as porn addicts
An Indigenous tribe from the Brazilian Amazon has sued The New York Times, saying the newspaper’s reporting on the tribe’s ...
Work requirements could transform Medicaid and food aid under US budget bill
The U.S. social safety net would be jolted if the budget bill backed by President Donald Trump and passed Thursday by the ...
A music talent agency says 3 employees died on a plane that crashed into a San Diego neighborhood
The music agency Sound Talent Group said Thursday that three of its employees, including co-founder Dave Shapiro, died on the ...