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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Three people were killed and three others were injured Tuesday when a decades-old overpass undergoing demolition partially collapsed in the South Korean capital, Seoul, fire officials said. The accident occurred during a safety inspection after workers halted demolition work upon noticing that a part of the structure had slightly sunk while concrete slabs were being cut, said Lee Jong-woon, an official at Seoul’s Seodaemun District […]

By Bo Erickson WASHINGTON, May 26 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump has repeated his false claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him at least 107 times in the last six months, keeping the grievance front and center even as he faces new political risks from the war with Iran and looming midterm elections. Trump devotes near-daily attention to the issue, a Reuters review of his public events, interviews […]

By Bo Erickson WASHINGTON, May 26 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump, who turns 80 next month, will undergo his routine annual physical on Tuesday at Walter Reed National Military Medical ​Center, following a year of public attention on apparently minor health issues. Trump frequently casts himself as more energetic and fitter than Joe Biden, his Democratic predecessor who left office last year at age 82 after facing questions about […]

By Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON, May 26 (Reuters) – Wall Street banks are pushing the Federal Reserve behind the scenes to cement its new supervisory regime so the changes cannot easily be reversed by potential future Democratic administrations, said four people with knowledge of the matter. As Republican President Donald Trump’s regulators undertake the biggest overhaul of bank oversight since the 2008 financial crisis, they are sharply curtailing the use of […]

By Arriana McLymore NEW YORK, May 26 (Reuters) – After U.S. cosmetics company Estée Lauder walked away from merger talks with Spanish perfume maker Puig, analysts called the move prudent and said it left Estée with more flexibility to pursue other acquisitions. The deal would have created a premium beauty giant, better positioned to compete with industry leader L’Oréal. But Estée investors worried that it would distract management from its […]

By David Jeans NEW YORK, May 26 (Reuters) – As U.S. kamikaze drones guided by Elon Musk’s Starlink network began to make visible gains in the war against Iran, senior SpaceX officials reached a conclusion: The Pentagon should be paying more for access to their satellite Wi-Fi network. Within weeks of the United States launching its bombing campaign, SpaceX executives met Pentagon officials and argued the military had been paying […]

By Arpan Chaturvedi NEW DELHI, May 26 (Reuters) – One of India’s most exclusive private clubs founded during British colonial rule risks closure after the government ordered it to vacate the prime New Delhi site it has occupied for more than a century, triggering a legal battle and debate over elite privilege. The Delhi Gymkhana Club, operating since 1913, sits beside the current residence of the prime minister in the […]

By Colleen Goko JOHANNESBURG, May 26 (Reuters) – Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye’s dismissal of a government headed by a firebrand critic of the International Monetary Fund gives fresh impetus to protracted negotiations aimed at resolving West Africa’s most pressing debt crisis. But analysts and investors cautioned that, while Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko’s Friday ouster may remove one obstacle to an IMF deal, its still unpredictable fallout presents new complications […]

By Andrius Sytas RIGA, May 26 (Reuters) – Russia can falsify GPS signals deep into Europe at a radius of up to 450km (280 miles) from its Kaliningrad exclave due to hugely-expanded capacity, a Lithuanian official said on Tuesday. Since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, European nations have often accused Russia of electronic interference but President Vladimir Putin’s government denies that, blaming Western smear tactics. Darius Kuliesius, deputy head of […]