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By Michael Holden LONDON, May 22 (Reuters) – The British police investigation into Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor will be long and complex, senior officers said on Friday, after his arrest earlier this year on suspicion of misconduct in public office, an offence that can include sexual impropriety. King Charles’ younger brother was interviewed under caution for hours by detectives after he was arrested at his home in Norfolk in February following the […]

ANTIBES, France (AP) — Actors and celebrities at the Cannes Film Festival were coaxed off the Croisette and up the French Riviera coast to Antibes on Thursday for dinner, performances and the annual amfAR Gala auction, which raised millions for AIDS research. Guests were treated to a lavish reception on the Hotel Du Cap, Eden Roc, lawn, followed by performances from Robbie Williams, Zara Larsson and Lizzo over dinner. The […]

TORONTO (AP) — An Air France flight bound for Detroit was diverted to Montreal after a passenger from the Congo boarded a flight in Paris “in error” amid flight restrictions tied to the Ebola outbreak, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Thursday. A spokesperson for the agency says the passenger “should not have boarded” the plane Wednesday due to U.S. entry restrictions put in place to reduce the risk of […]

May 22 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would speak with Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te, an unprecedented move for a U.S. leader that could roil U.S. relations with China and maybe prompt more Chinese war games around the island. It was the second time in a week Trump had said he intended to speak to Lai, dispelling initial speculation that his first mention of it after […]

By Joyce Lee SEOUL, May 22 (Reuters) – South Korea’s Interior Minister said his ministry would stop offering products from companies that “make light” of the country’s democratic history, after a public outcry over a Starbucks Korea marketing campaign that evoked a brutal 1980 military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.  The coffee chain launched its “Tank Day” campaign on the same day as the anniversary of the May 18 Gwangju uprising, […]

HANOI, May 22 (Reuters) – The State of North Carolina has sued Vietnamese EV maker VinFast for its alleged failure to meet its commitments to build an electric vehicle and battery factory in the state, Attorney General Jeff Jackson said in a statement. • VinFast has abandoned work on the 712-hectare (1,759-acre) site in Chatham County for over a year, according to the statement issued on Thursday. • VinFast was […]

TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s oil-rich province of Alberta will hold a referendum in October on leaving Canada, but the province’s premier said Thursday it won’t actually be a vote on whether to separate. Danielle Smith said voters instead would be deciding whether it’s time to hold a binding referendum on quitting Canada. “I want to be clear. I support Alberta remaining in Canada, and this is how I would vote […]

A developing El Nino that is forecast to get quite strong will likely dampen the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season, but it won’t make the potentially deadly storms disappear, federal and outside meteorologists predict. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Thursday issued its seasonal outlook for the Atlantic, giving a 55% chance of a below-average season. The agency forecasts eight to 14 named storms, with three to six of them […]

By Colleen Howe and Chen Aizhu BEIJING/SINGAPORE, May 22 (Reuters) – The Hengli Group, built by a husband and wife duo over three decades from a bankrupt textile mill into a Fortune Global 500 giant and one of China’s largest private oil refiners, has been thrust into the centre of a geopolitical power struggle. Last month, its Hengli Petrochemical arm, which runs a 400,000 barrel-per-day refinery in the northeastern city […]