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Cole Young’s broken-bat bloop single to left field brought home the winning run with one out in the bottom of the 10th inning as the Seattle Mariners defeated the visiting New York Mets 3-2 on Monday. Rookie Colt Emerson and Josh Naylor hit solo homers for the American League West-leading Mariners, who won their seventh consecutive game. Jared Young and Marcus Semien went deep for the Mets, whose four-game winning […]

BEIJING, June 2 (Reuters) – China accused the Philippine defence chief of having no gratitude for key Chinese commodities and of using issues about people’s livelihoods for political showmanship, after remarks about China being a threat. Philippine Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro told Reuters on Saturday that China remains a “severe threat” with no show of long-term good faith despite Beijing recently offering fertiliser and fuel during war-related shortages. The Chinese […]

TAIPEI, June 2 (Reuters) – The chairman of South Korea’s SK Group said on Tuesday its memory chip unit SK Hynix aims to double wafer capacity over the next five years. Chey Tae-won was speaking at the Computex conference in Taipei, where executives from some of the world’s top technology companies, including Nvidia, are gathering. Chey, who warned in March that a global chip wafer shortage was likely to persist […]

By Nellie Peyton and Esa Alexander CAPE TOWN, June 2 (Reuters) – For SJ Du Venage, a provincial council member for a right-wing party in South Africa’s governing coalition, the decision to leave his homeland under a U.S. refugee programme created by President Donald Trump was shaped by longstanding fears. A former youth leader in the far-right Conservative Party —which opposed the end of apartheid — he said he grew […]

MOSCOW, June 2 (Reuters) – The Russian Defence Ministry said on Tuesday that its massive overnight strike on Ukraine was a response to what it called “terrorist acts” against targets inside Russia and said it had struck a range of Ukrainian military targets. Ukrainian authorities said that Russian drones and missiles had pounded the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and other cities early on Tuesday, killing at least 11 people and wounding […]

NAIROBI, June 2 (Reuters) – Two people were killed in central Kenya on Monday during a protest against moves by the United States to set up an Ebola quarantine facility at a military base there, protest organiser Patrick Wahome and a security source told Reuters.  The circumstances of their deaths were not immediately clear. Kenya’s national police spokesperson could not immediately be reached for comment.  (Writing by Aaron Ross Editing by […]

NAIROBI, June 2 (Reuters) – Kenyan President William Ruto defended a planned U.S.-backed Ebola quarantine facility at a military air base in central Kenya, saying it was part of a wider national preparedness plan and a long-running health partnership with Washington. Last week, Kenya approved a U.S. request to establish a facility at a military air base in central Kenya for Americans who may have been exposed to Ebola.  Residents […]

ST. LOUIS (AP) — On his son Nolan’s birthday, Jacob deGrom got the whole family a gift he’ll never forget. The two-time Cy Young Award winner tossed five scoreless innings to earn his 100th career win as the Texas Rangers beat the St. Louis Cardinals 2-1 on Monday night. “It’s really cool,” deGrom said. “As a kid, your goal is to just play major league baseball and for it to […]

BIRAO, Central African Republic (AP) — The agony began for Maude Ahmad Fadala shortly after sunset. Her baby was coming. She was in a refugee camp, weakened by typhoid. There were no camp facilities for what was about to happen, and she had no money to travel. She struggled to her feet and started walking. She stopped every few minutes, gripped by pain from contractions, then could go no farther. […]