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TAIPEI, May 11 (Reuters) – Taiwan’s coast guard said on Monday that it had disrupted “illegal” operations by a Chinese research ship in waters close to the island and driven it away, part of what Taipei sees a provocative pattern of China’s stepped up maritime activities. The coast guard said that last Thursday it detected the Chinese ship the “Tongji”, which was commissioned only last year, 29 nautical miles southeast […]

BEIJING, May 11 (Reuters) – China’s domestic car sales fell for a seventh straight month in April amid intense competition in the world’s biggest auto market but exports stayed strong as automakers increasingly targeted overseas markets. Sales at home dropped 21.6% from a year earlier to 1.4 million vehicles last month, data from the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) said on Monday. Combustion engine car sales missed expectations due to […]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama was ejected for throwing an elbow out of frustration at the throat of Minnesota Timberwolves forward Naz Reid early in the second quarter of Game 4 of their rugged second-round NBA playoff series on Sunday night. Wembanyama was whistled for an offensive foul as soon as he struck Reid, who had swarmed the NBA Defensive Player of the Year outside the […]

By Renju Jose and Lucy Craymer SYDNEY/WELLINGTON, May 11 (Reuters) – The Australian government said on Monday it would repatriate its citizens from a Dutch-flagged luxury cruise ship hit by a deadly strain of hantavirus, with the passengers to be quarantined after they arrive in the country. Spain and France have evacuated their citizens from the MV Hondius, which has anchored near Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands, officials […]

May 10 (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said on Sunday that one of the 17 Americans being repatriated from a hantavirus-struck luxury cruise ship has tested mildly positive for the Andes strain of the virus while a second has mild symptoms. All the U.S. citizens are being airlifted to the United States, and the two passengers with symptoms are travelling in the plane’s biocontainment units, […]

TAIPEI, May 11 (Reuters) – Taiwan is “confident” in the stable development of its ties with the U.S. and Washington has repeatedly said its policy towards the island will not change, Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung said on Monday of U.S. President Donald Trump’s upcoming China trip. Trump will be in Beijing from Wednesday to Friday for a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping where the issue of democratically governed Taiwan, […]

By Nayera Abdallah, Elwely Elwelly and Idrees Ali DUBAI/WASHINGTON, May 11 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s swift rejection of Iran’s response to a U.S. peace proposal sent oil prices surging higher on Monday amid concerns the 10-week-old conflict will drag on, keeping shipping through the Strait of Hormuz paralyzed. Days after the U.S. floated an offer in the hopes of re-opening negotiations, Iran on Sunday released a response focused on […]

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — With just under a month until the FIFA World Cup kicks off, thousands of people are filling Argentine plazas strategizing to win a different game that has become a beloved part of the quadrennial competition: collecting and trading stickers to complete the official World Cup stickerbook. For more than half a century, Panini stickerbooks have been a treasured part of the World Cup experience, with schools, […]

The Detroit Tigers placed outfielder Kerry Carpenter on the 10-day injured list on Sunday with a left shoulder sprain. Carpenter was injured crashing into the sidewall in right field on Bobby Witt Jr.’s inside-the-park home run on Saturday night in the host Royals’ 5-1 victory. In a corresponding move, the Tigers selected the contract of third baseman Gage Workman from Triple-A Toledo. Detroit made room on the 40-man roster by […]