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BEIJING, June 5 (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit North Korea from June 8 to 9, state news agency Xinhua said on Friday, his first trip in nearly seven years as Beijing looks to reinforce ties with Pyongyang. The announcement follows separate summits Xi hosted in Beijing for U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin last month. Trump, who met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un […]

By Heejin Kim and Hyunjoo Jin SEOUL, June 5 (Reuters) – South Korea’s labour minister called on the country’s major tech firms to share the spoils of their massive windfall profits, warning that unprecedented chip-sector gains stemming from the AI boom risked widening a gap in inequality. In an interview, Kim Young-hoon told Reuters that companies like Samsung Electronics that outperform profit targets should consider sharing excess gains with suppliers, […]

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — An ex-girlfriend alleges that U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner repeatedly grabbed her hard enough to leave marks, pulled her from a cab by the wrist, and, in one incident, twisted her arm behind her back and held her in a room when they dated more than a decade ago, according to a new report. Lyndsey Fifield told The New York Times that Platner, a Democrat, never […]

SAN ANTONIO — Jalen Brunson displayed plenty of grit in the New York Knicks’ Game 1 victory in the NBA Finals, but second on the Most Valuable list in the early stages of the series is do-it-all veteran Josh Hart. The 6-foot-5 Hart only scored three points and missed four of his five shots. But he collected 15 rebounds, six assists and four steals in the 105-95 victory over the […]

President Donald Trump plans to attend an NBA Finals game — or two — next week in New York at the invitation of Knicks owner James Dolan. “The answer is yes,” Trump said Thursday of attending the league championship series between the Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs. “(Dolan) has invited me, and I’m going. I’ll be there. It could be Monday (for Game 3). Maybe I’ll do both (with […]

By Rae Wee SINGAPORE, June 5 (Reuters) – Asian share markets slid on Friday as investors took profits on technology stocks and turned defensive ahead of the weekend, wary of the flare-up in Middle East hostilities as U.S.-Iran peace talks remain in limbo. The Iran-backed Hezbollah militia rejected a new ceasefire in Lebanon on Thursday and Israel said it would not withdraw troops from the country, undermining U.S. President Donald Trump’s […]

BERLIN, June 4 (Reuters) – A senior member of Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) met one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s top advisers as well as the head of energy group Gazprom and called for a reopening of the Nord Stream gas pipeline. Markus Frohnmaier, the AfD’s parliamentary foreign policy spokesperson, is attending Putin’s showpiece economic conference in St Petersburg, defying warnings from Germany’s foreign ministry, which said it […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — An American journalist who has lived in China since 2010 and worked for several state media organizations there pleaded guilty in a U.S. court Thursday to acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government, the Justice Department said. Thomas Pauken II is set to be sentenced Sept. 1 in a U.S. District Court and he faces up to 10 years in jail, the department said. He […]

By Jiaxing Li HONG KONG, June 5 (Reuters) – The Japanese yen is testing the 160 barrier on Friday, prompting pushback from Japanese officials, while the U.S. dollar is on track for a weekly gain as Gulf tensions fuel safe-haven flows. The yen weakened to the critical 160-per-dollar mark briefly in early trades, hitting the level for the third straight session despite verbal warnings from authorities. The 160 level is […]