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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, May 11 (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio held separate calls with his Australian and British counterparts on Monday to discuss Iran and the Strait of Hormuz, the State Department said. Here are some details: • Rubio discussed “Iran and ongoing efforts to restore freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz,” the State Department said in separate statements after his calls with Australian […]

By Nandita Bose and Nayera Abdallah WASHINGTON/DUBAI, May 12 (Reuters) – Hopes for a peace deal on Iran faded on Tuesday after Donald Trump said a ceasefire with Iran was “on life support” as Tehran rejected a U.S. proposal to end the conflict and stuck to a list of demands the U.S. president described as “garbage”. Iran has called for an end to the war on all fronts, including Lebanon, […]

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A Palestinian family has described how Israeli settlers in the northern West Bank forced them to exhume the newly buried grave of an older relative, claiming it was too close to a settlement recently authorized by Israel’s government. Mohammed Asasa said his family had coordinated the burial of his 80-year-old father, Hussein, with the Israeli military. He said the burial took place in a cemetery […]

By Anton Bridge TOKYO, May 12 (Reuters) – SoftBank Group is expected by analysts to report another robust quarterly profit on Wednesday as the technology investor benefits from its growing OpenAI bet, though concerns are increasing over the debt it is taking on to fund it. While SoftBank’s “all-in” bet on OpenAI has proven lucrative so far – the ChatGPT-creator’s valuation has leapt to $840 billion in its latest funding […]

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, May 11 (Reuters) – Republican U.S. Representative Jen Kiggans faced calls from Democrats to resign for agreeing with a radio host after he said Democratic lawmaker Hakeem Jeffries should get his “cotton-picking hands off of Virginia.” Kiggans later said she was agreeing with the host that Jeffries, who is the House of Representatives minority leader and the first Black American to lead a party in Congress, […]

By Ella Cao, Trevor Hunnicutt and Naveen Thukral BEIJING/SINGAPORE, May 12 (Reuters) – China and the United States may reach a farm deal at their summit this week that expands Beijing’s purchases of grains and meat, but market watchers said they did not expect major new soybean purchases beyond what was agreed in a deal last October. Agriculture is among the less-contentious areas of the bilateral relationship, but the final […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mookie Betts returned to the Los Angeles Dodgers’ lineup Monday night, five weeks after being sidelined with an oblique injury. The eight-time All-Star was set to hit second behind Shohei Ohtani and ahead of Freddie Freeman in the series opener against the San Francisco Giants. “We just have to make sure we swing at good pitches,” Betts said before the game. “Those guys are good, too. […]

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Forty years. That’s how long Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has been in power. The 81-year-old will be sworn in Tuesday to extend his presidency over a further five-year term that may well be his last — although not necessarily the last for the Museveni family. The president’s son and presumptive heir, army chief Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, oversaw dayslong rehearsals of the military parade that will animate […]

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — His head, chest and hands strapped with body cameras, David Park deftly folded a banquet napkin the way he has thousands of times during his nine years at the five-star Lotte Hotel Seoul. Each of his motions is fed into a database that will one day teach a robot to do the same. The hotel chain is one of many companies South Korean artificial-intelligence startup […]