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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Florentino Pérez has earned four more years as Real Madrid’s president after winning club elections on Sunday. “We are going to keep working so that Real Madrid keeps winning more titles,” he told his supporters at a late night victory party soon after Real Madrid’s club television channel reported Pérez had beaten challenger Enrique Riquelme. The club is yet to make the vote count public. Pérez’s […]

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Middle East is suddenly bracing for war again. Iran fired missiles at Israel late Sunday in the first such bombardment in the two months since a ceasefire. What happened? The truce in the Iran war that was reached in April has not spread to Lebanon, where Israel has been battling Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants. Israel says it is defending its northern communities that face Hezbollah drone and […]

By Stephen Nellis June 8 (Reuters) – When Apple holds its developer conference at its Cupertino, California headquarters on Monday, the big draw will be a widely expected overhaul to Siri, the AI assistant the iPhone maker two years ago promised, but failed, to improve. Siri debuted in 2011 and is accessible through the bulk of Apple’s installed base of 2.5 billion devices, but hundreds of millions of consumers have […]

(SRN NEWS)  Malaysia is the latest country to try and protect young people from the dangers of the internet.  The government has started enforcing rules to prevent children under 16 from having social media accounts.  This decision is part of a global effort to enhance safety protections.  Existing users under 16 will have a month to manage their data before restrictions apply. Companies that fail to comply face hefty fines.  Experts say young people are […]

SINGAPORE, June 8 (Reuters) – Asian markets extended last week’s bruising selloff with high-flying semiconductor stocks taking the heaviest beating and South Korea’s KOSPI sinking more than 4.5%. U.S. markets fell sharply on Friday when strong jobs data lifted the odds of a rate hike this year and sent investors scurrying from some of the year’s top-performing bets. Here is what market participants are saying about the moves: FRANK BENZIMRA, […]

June 8 (Reuters) – A Ukrainian drone struck a train in Crimea, killing its assistant driver and injuring the driver, the peninsula’s Russian-installed governor Sergei Aksyonov said in a Telegram post early on Monday. Passengers on the train, commuting between Moscow and Simferopol, the main city of the Russia-annexed Black Sea Crimea peninsula, were not harmed, Aksyonov added. Russia seized and annexed Crimea in 2014 – long before its 2022 […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Jazz Chisholm Jr. found a way to keep Aaron Judge’s bat in the New York Yankees’ lineup. After lumbering through the early innings, Chisholm borrowed lumber from the injured Yankees captain. His three-run homer with Judge’s model capped a five-run eighth inning in Sunday’s 6-1 win over the Boston Red Sox. “When I pick up his bat I know I can’t swing as hard as I […]

By Rae Wee SINGAPORE, June 8 (Reuters) – The dollar was perched near a two-month high on Monday after a blowout U.S. jobs report sent traders ramping up bets on a Federal Reserve rate hike this year, while the yen teetered further into the intervention zone. Early moves in currencies were largely muted with markets in Australia closed for a holiday, though the dollar held to its strong gains made […]

June 8 (Reuters) – An earthquake of magnitude 8.2 struck Mindanao in the Philippines on Monday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), GFZ said. GFZ earlier pegged the earthquake at 7.3. The U.S. Tsunami Warning System issued a tsunami threat to the earthquake. (Reporting by Gnaneshwar Rajan in Bengaluru; Editing by Jacqueline Wong and Tom Hogue) Brought […]