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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A magnitude 7.8 earthquake centered at sea shook part of the southern Philippines early Monday, causing damage in a key coastal city, knocking down power and setting off 1-meter (3-foot) tsunami waves along nearby coasts, officials said. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. asked people to immediately go to higher ground in Philippine areas vulnerable to a tsunami, and Indonesian and Malaysian authorities also issued warnings to their […]

MANILA, June 8 (Reuters) – A Philippine disaster official said on Monday that authorities are verifying reports of at least five deaths in the southern city of General Santos from a magnitude 7.8 earthquake.  Agripino Dacera, the disaster management chief in General Santos, said the fatalities are still being verified as authorities assess the extent of the damage on the ground.  (Reporting by Mikhail Flores; Editing by David Stanway) Brought […]

SEOUL, June 8 (Reuters) – Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Monday that it is partnering with South Korea’s tech conglomerate LG Group on humanoid robots and data centers. “We are working with them in motor technology as well as mechanical systems so that we can bring together humanoid robotics and the future of robotics,” he told reporters after a meeting with LG Group Chairman Koo Kwang-mo in Seoul. “We’re […]

Harvard University professor Robert Coles, the psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who championed the cause of children grappling with poverty and segregation, has died at 97, his son said Sunday. The son, also named Robert Coles, told The Associated Press that his father died Thursday at a hospice center in Lincoln, Massachusetts. The elder Coles was famed for documenting the needs of children, particularly those caught in the crucible of […]

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to travel to Pyongyang on Monday in his first visit in seven years, a trip likely meant to reassert China’s unique influence over North Korea in return for providing economic and political benefits. During his two-day stay, Xi is to meet leader Kim Jong Un. It will be their first summit since September in Beijing after attending a military […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Five people were injured after a series of stabbings at New York’s Penn Station on Sunday evening and a suspect is in custody, authorities said. Paramedics responded around 7 p.m. and found one victim with a serious injury, two with moderate injuries, and the rest with minor injuries, the city’s fire department said in a statement. All were transported to Bellevue Hospital. It said the suspect […]

TAIPEI, June 8 (Reuters) – Chinese Coast Guard patrols to the east of Taiwan are a “provocative act” and the military will closely coordinate with the island’s Coast Guard in responding, Defence Minister Wellington Koo said on Monday. China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, was angered after Japan and the Philippines said last month they would begin formal talks on delimiting their maritime boundaries, viewing that […]

By Alexander Cornwell, Parisa Hafezi and Bo Erickson TEL AVIV/DUBAI/NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, June 8 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that new strikes by Israel and Iran would not affect his administration’s peace talks with Tehran, saying Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “doesn’t call the shots.” Trump has leaned on Israel to stop its attacks in Lebanon to allow room for a deal to end the […]

TOKYO, June 8 (Reuters) – The Japanese city of Utsunomiya has suspended all 94 of the primary and middle schools that it operates on Monday after its first-ever bear sighting, a municipal official said. The city of half-a-million residents about 100 km (60 miles) north of Tokyo said the bear was first seen in a residential area near a park on Saturday evening. It remains at large after the last […]