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ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) — Miles from shore, Chris Kemp pumps and reels as he battles a fish 150 feet below. Eventually, it gives up, and the 10-pound red snapper is hauled aboard the Jodie Lynn II. There’s barely time to rejoice. As Kemp raises his trophy for a picture, the charter boat’s captain rushes over and then drives a knifelike tool into the fish’s gas-filled bladder. The procedure, required […]

When Southern Baptists gather Tuesday in Florida for their annual meeting, they’ll debate for the fourth year in a row whether to formally ban churches with a woman serving in any role resembling that of pastor — not just the top job. One thing they are unlikely to debate is the politics of many Southern Baptists, the vanguard of broader white conservative evangelical support for President Donald Trump. Officials for […]

DIBBINE, Lebanon (AP) — Israel’s air force struck different parts of southern Lebanon on Friday as the military issued evacuation warnings for nine villages, including one that has been spared much of the destruction and was sheltering thousands of people displaced by the three-month war. Six people were killed, Lebanon’s state news agency reported. The warnings forced hundreds of families to flee the village of Anqoun and the area of […]

GALPATHA, Sri Lanka (AP) — The site of the deadly fire at an unregistered nursing home for people with mental illnesses in Western Sri Lanka lay abandoned Friday as the death toll rose from 12 to 13 after one of the injured succumbed to injuries at the hospital, an official said. Glasses cases, medicines and reclining chairs lay strewn around the burned-out shell of the home in Anguruwatota, a small […]

ST PETERSBURG, Russia, June 5 (Reuters) – A Russian amusement park in St Petersburg has named one of its rides the “Oreshnik”, after a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile that Moscow has fired three times at Ukraine. Visitors to the rocket-shaped attraction are repeatedly lifted into the air and plunged into sudden stomach-churning drops. Not everyone is pleased with the name, however. “I don’t think it fits. The best name for it […]

MADRID, June 5 (Reuters) – Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Friday denied knowing about an alleged plot to derail investigations into corruption cases dogging his Socialist Party, saying he was disappointed and outraged by it. Last week, a High Court judge ordered the surrender of various documents and electronic files from party headquarters in a probe centring on former Sanchez ally Santos Cerdan – the Socialists’ former organisation secretary […]

June 5 (Reuters) – Sika sees growth opportunities in China’s renovation market and infrastructure construction in the U.S., the Swiss construction chemicals manufacturer’s CEO Thomas Hasler said in an interview with Finanz und Wirtschaft published on Friday. • Sika has further fragmented its business in China to adapt to the local market, which is not uniform, Hasler said. • Sika has re-calibrated its business model there, originally very heavily focused on new-build […]

By Nolan D. McCaskill and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuters) – Seven Republicans in the U.S. Senate on Friday joined Democrats to block debate on reauthorization of an expiring foreign surveillance law. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act will expire on June 12 without congressional action. But a vote to begin debate failed early Friday, 47-52. Only one Democrat, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, voted in favor of […]

BEIJING, June 5 (Reuters) – Senior Chinese Communist Party official Cai Qi has been appointed as the head of the party’s elite central party school, according to footage shown on state broadcaster CCTV on Friday. Cai, 70, is President Xi Jinping’s de facto chief of staff, heading the Communist Party Central Committee’s general office. As part of the seven-member Politburo Standing Committee, he is among the handful of most powerful […]