MANILA, July 23 (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday that the United States remains prepared to play a “constructive role” in helping bring an end to the war in Ukraine, following talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of an ASEAN gathering in
KUALA LUMPUR, July 23 (Reuters) – Malaysia has asked the U.N. refugee agency to temporarily stop registering new refugees in the country, as it builds a domestic system to manage asylum-seekers, the foreign ministry said on Thursday. Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Lukanisman Awang Sauni said the su
By Johan Ahlander STOCKHOLM, July 23 (Reuters) – After championing huge policy shifts in Sweden by propping up a minority centre-right government for four years, the far-right Sweden Democrats say they have won the political arguments and now deserve a share of power for themselves. But it is a dema
By Kevin Yao, Eduardo Baptista and Kane Wu BEIJING, July 23 (Reuters) – Chipmaker CXMT’s high-profile debut next week will mark a major milestone for China’s state-led funding model, highlighting how government capital can transform a strategic technology startup into a key global player and drive h
By Gianluca Lo Nostro and Zakarya Meliani July 23 (Reuters) – Channel Tunnel operator Getlink warned on Thursday that the biometric phase of the European Union’s digital border security check system for car passengers using the tunnel could be delayed beyond its September 6 due date by software issu
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — An Australian court has cleared Rebel Wilson of defaming the star of her directorial debut, “The Deb,” in social media posts. Charlotte MacInnes alleged Wilson defamed her or breached her confidence in four social media posts from September 2024 to July 2025 by falsely sugg
By Liam Mo and Eduardo Baptista BEIJING, July 23 (Reuters) – U.S. chipmaking giants Intel and Advanced Micro Devices are signing longer-term purchase commitments with Chinese server customers for data-centre processors as prices surge, two people familiar with the talks said. The move highlights a b
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to meet Thursday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the Philippines, where he’s expected to renew the prospect of the U.S. trying to broker an end to the war in Ukraine. The meeting between Rubio and Lavrov is slated t
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) — The family of Nolan Xavier Wells is still searching for answers about what exactly led to the 18-year-old athlete’s death during a July 4 boat trip with friends off Mississippi’s Gulf Coast. Though Wells traveled by boat with his friends to Horn Island, he didn’t return w
Some bystanders appeared to barely bat an eye when a man set off a fountain of fireworks then started a blazing fire outside a federal building in Lower Manhattan, according to security camera video released Wednesday. The surveillance footage from the U.S. Attorney’s Office offered the most complet
BOSTON (AP) — The last time the Boston Red Sox won 15 straight games, Ted Williams was putting together an MVP season in 1946 and leading them to an American League championship. On Wednesday, the Red Sox matched that streak from 80 years ago, beating the Baltimore Orioles 6-3 in the opener of a dou
July 22 (Reuters) – ServiceNow has acquired roughly 5% of BusinessNext in a deal that values the software provider at $700 million, as the Indian company looks to expand its autonomous banking tools through a partnership with the U.S.-based software giant. BusinessNext said on Wednesday it raised $4
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona Cardinals offensive lineman Isaiah Adams was arrested in Canada recently on four weapons charges. Adams, 25, was charged with possession of a firearm obtained in a crime, possession of a restricted/prohibited firearm, no license while in possession of a loaded firearm and
ChatGPT maker OpenAI says it is still investigating the “unprecedented cyber incident” that led its artificial intelligence systems to break out of a testing environment and hack into another AI company. OpenAI said Tuesday two of its most capable AI models were responsible for the cyberattack targe
NEW YORK (AP) — Victor Wembanyama of the San Antonio Spurs, Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever and former NBA MVP Derrick Rose were revealed Wednesday as the cover athletes for NBA 2K27. Wembanyama is on the cover of the Standard Edition, Clark is on the Deluxe Edition and Rose will appear on the li
HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Astros traded right-hander Nate Pearson to Kansas City for pitching prospect Max Martin on Wednesday. The move comes after Pearson was designated for assignment by the Astros on Sunday. He went 1-0 with a 3.60 ERA in 16 games this season. The veteran is 10-6 with a 4.99 ER
NEW YORK (AP) — Rei Ami, whose voice helped fuel the hit movie “KPop Demon Hunters,” recently found herself facing plenty of real hunters — watching from the ocean floor as about 16 reef sharks went on a feeding frenzy. She was scared, sure. But more than that, she was brought to tears. “I thought I
SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — New protections for endangered right whales in the North Atlantic would be postponed for nearly a decade under a plan that cleared a key hurdle in Washington last week with the full-throated support of the fishing and lobster industries. Environmentalists say this could spe
By David Jeans NEW YORK, July 22 (Reuters) – A team of former DOGE employees have raised a major funding round for a startup that aims to use AI to expand U.S. military cyber capabilities, three sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The startup, called Cathedral, was launched in recent
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Cinerama Dome, a landmark Hollywood theater shuttered during the COVID-19 pandemic, will be restored and reopen. Alamo Drafthouse Cinema will operate the massive 86-foot-wide curved dome theater and an adjacent 14-theater complex. Alamo’s owner, Sony Pictures Entertainment, an
PARIS (AP) — France recorded at least 5,700 more deaths than usual during a historic heat wave last month, the public health agency said Wednesday, sharply increasing its estimates of the feared toll from record-shattering temperatures. Public Health France said regions hit by the heat from June 17
Germany has deported a Uyghur man to China where there are concerns he could be detained as a member of an ethnic group that has been targeted by the Chinese government, his mother told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Arafat Adil, 21, a dual Chinese-Turkish national who has lived in Turkey with h
A special prosecutor on Wednesday dismissed felony criminal charges against Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill, who was indicted on accusations of threatening the jobs of New Orleans officials who fought a Republican-led overhaul of courts in the heavily Democratic city. The case was put on hold
NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of former or retired journalists and eight press freedom groups are asking the White House Correspondents’ Association to stand up to the Trump administration’s recent attacks on the media at its rescheduled dinner this week — a dinner President Donald Trump says he’ll atten
CHICAGO (AP) — An independent autopsy commissioned by the family of Nolan Xavier Wells found the 18-year-old’s cause and manner of death to be “undetermined” pending further investigation. The civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is representing the Wells family, announced the preliminary findings W
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, July 22 (Reuters) – Scientists are documenting a planetary system in the Milky Way galaxy that is so starkly dissimilar to our own solar system that they are struggling to find the proper terminology to describe it. The system includes a red dwarf star about 40% of the mas
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s former prime minister Viktor Orbán declared on Wednesday that he and his far-right Fidesz party will lead a peaceful “resistance” movement against what he called the tyrannical exercise of power by the country’s new center-right government. Orbán was defeated in a
BRAUNAU AM INN, Austria (AP) — Adolf Hitler’s birthplace in Austria was officially inaugurated as a police station on Wednesday in an effort to destroy the building’s appeal as a site of pilgrimage for people who glorify the Nazi dictator. A memorial stone is to remain in place outside the house in
NEW DELHI (AP) — What began as an online joke has evolved into one of the most significant protest movements in India being led by young people hoping to change the established political structure and the damage they believe the government has caused. Calling themselves the “Cockroaches,” young Indi
(SRN NEWS)- Sweden is the country where the most people think homosexual unions are a good thing — 92%. The Netherlands comes in 2nd at 89%, Spain checks in at 87%. On the other end of the spectrum, opposition to gay marriage is strongest in Nigeria — where the population is split between Muslims an
