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By Wa Lone TORONTO, May 30 (Reuters) – While U.S.-Canadian relations have frayed under U.S. President Donald Trump, data on Canadian citizenship approvals under recently widened rules suggests many Americans would welcome the chance to become Canadian. Under the new rules, which allow more descendants of Canadians to claim citizenship compared with just first-generation descendants previously, approvals for proof of citizenship by descent have risen by more than 1,000 per […]

By David Morgan WASHINGTON, May 30 (Reuters) – Senate Republicans face a stark choice when they return from recess next week: back President Donald Trump’s controversial $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund to benefit his political allies or defy a commander-in-chief who just ended the careers of two Republican senators. Nearly half of the 53-member Republican Senate majority balked at the issue during a heated two-hour meeting with Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche before […]

BANGKOK (AP) — Rescue workers in Laos Saturday worked to safely free the villagers found alive in a flooded cave after being trapped there for 10 days, a day after the first of the five survivors was safely evacuated. Rescuers hope to extract the remaining four men later Saturday after saying they were not ready to be taken out on Friday. They are working to drain more water out of […]

MOSCOW, May 30 (Reuters) – Russia said on Saturday it had recalled its ambassador to Armenia for consultations in protest at its rapprochement with the European Union as a June 7 election nears.  Formally allied to Russia, the Caucasus nation of around 3 million people has been deepening ties with the West in recent years despite its economic dependence on Moscow.  “The Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Republic […]

By Gregor Stuart Hunter, Rae Wee and Jun Yuan Yong SINGAPORE, May 30 (Reuters) – U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth urged Asian allies on Saturday to ramp up military spending to counter China’s growing power and prevent its dominance in the region, warning of “rightful alarm” over its rapid military buildup. Hegseth, speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, Asia’s premier forum for defence leaders, militaries and diplomats, said a […]

SINGAPORE, May 30 (Reuters) – The United States, Britain and Australia are working together to develop unmanned undersea vehicles as part of their trilateral AUKUS defence pact, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth told reporters on Saturday. The programme comes under AUKUS’s so-called “Pillar Two” to develop advanced defence technology including quantum computing, undersea, hypersonic, artificial intelligence and cyber technology. “The signature project will deliver a suite of highly adaptable […]

Bryan Reynolds’ two-run walk-off home run lifted the host Pittsburgh Pirates to a 6-5 win over the Minnesota Twins on Friday night. The shot with one out in the ninth inning off Taylor Rogers (1-2) was Reynolds’ second career walk-off blast. Oneil Cruz also went deep for Pittsburgh, and Gregory Soto (4-0) pitched a scoreless top of the ninth. Pirates starter Jared Jones returned after missing 20 months due to […]

BANGKOK, May 30 (Reuters) – Rescuers pulled four people from a flooded cave in Laos on Saturday, Thai volunteer rescuers said, hours after another man was brought out late on Friday. The five are among seven Lao nationals who had entered the cave in Xaisomboun province to prospect for gold, but were trapped for more than a week when rising water blocked their exit. Two others remain missing. Kengkard Bongkawong, […]

By Greg Torode SINGAPORE, May 30 (Reuters) – Strong relations between Vietnam and its giant neighbour and territorial rival China would benefit regional peace and security, although ties with the U.S. were also important, Vietnam’s top leader has said. “We do not pick sides,” Communist Party General Secretary and President To Lam told Reuters late on Friday in his first interview with an international media outlet in his current role. […]