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May 3 (Reuters) – Gretchen Walsh bettered her own 100m butterfly world record for the third time in a year as she clocked 54.33 seconds in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the same event where she  became the first woman to breach the 55-second mark. The American world champion now owns the 13 fastest times in the event’s history. “Must be magic or something out here… let’s make this an annual thing, […]

VATICAN CITY, May 3 (Reuters) – Pope Leo on Sunday marked World Press Freedom Day by condemning persistent violations of media freedom around the world and paying tribute to journalists killed while reporting from conflict zones. Speaking at the end of his weekly Sunday prayer, in a sun-flooded Saint Peter’s Square, the pontiff said the day highlighted both the importance of independent journalism and the growing threats faced by reporters. […]

VIENNA, May 3 (Reuters) – Five children aged between 10 and 14 were injured in northern Austria on Saturday evening when a “war relic” that was under their campfire exploded, police said on Sunday. The children were part of a group visiting from another part of the same state of Upper Austria. The accident occurred in an area of the village of St Oswald bei Freistadt, where organised youth groups […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A hidden force is quietly pushing up costs for everything from your summer vacation to your weekly grocery bills: a weaker U.S. dollar. The dollar has fallen about 10% against other major currencies since President Donald Trump returned to the White House, a pullback potentially playing a role in Americans’ concerns about affordability. “It’s kind of a hidden tax,” says economist Thomas Savidge of the conservative-leaning […]

LONDON, May 3 (Reuters) – Two people have died after an explosion at a house in the southern English city of Bristol, with authorities treating the cause of the incident as suspicious, local police said on Sunday. Police, who have declared it a major incident, said they were not treating it as a suspected terrorist incident. Officers are also carrying out enquiries at a property in Bristol linked to the […]

By Laila Bassam, Maya Gebeily and Tom Perry BEIRUT, May 3 (Reuters) – Hezbollah has paid a heavy price for going to war with Israel on March 2: Israel has occupied a chunk of southern Lebanon, displaced hundreds of thousands of its Shi’ite Muslim constituents and killed as many as several thousand of its fighters, according to previously unreported casualty estimates from within the group. The move has brought severe […]

TAIPEI, May 3 (Reuters) – Taiwan’s Foxconn said on Sunday its second-generation low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites were launched via a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from California, marking the electronics manufacturer’s latest push into space technology. The company’s PEARL-1A and PEARL-1B satellites entered their intended orbits and will conduct on-orbit missions for five years, it said. Foxconn said the two satellites are primarily designed to verify payload technologies in the fields […]

MOSCOW, May 3 (Reuters) – Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico is among only a handful of global leaders due to attend a scaled-back edition of Russia’s Victory Day parade in Moscow this month, Russian state TV said on Sunday. Following Viktor Orban’s election loss in Hungary last month, Fico is now viewed as the European Union’s most pro-Russian leader.  Both Hungary and Slovakia have maintained Russian gas supplies despite EU […]

VIENNA (AP) — Police in eastern Austria say a 39-year-old suspect has been arrested after rat poison turned up in some HiPP baby food jars on supermarket shelves in central Europe. HiPP, which recalled some of its baby food jars in Austria, Slovakia and the Czech Republic after the case came to light last month, said in a statement Saturday it was “greatly relieved” by the arrest, and would provide […]