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NEW YORK (AP) — North America’s largest commuter rail system was shut down Saturday after unionized workers in the New York City area went on strike. The Long Island Rail Road that serves the city’s eastern suburbs ceased operations early Saturday morning after five unions representing about half its workforce walked off the job. The two sides have been negotiating for months on a new contract, and President Donald Trump’s […]

LONDON (AP) — Police in London are gearing up as tens of thousands descend on the U.K. capital on Saturday for two major demonstrations and tens of thousands more soccer fans congregate for the final of England’s major domestic cup competition at Wembley Stadium. Armored vehicles, police horses, dogs, drones and helicopters will be deployed along with at least 4,000 officers as the Metropolitan Police aims to avoid clashes. Police […]

BANGKOK (AP) — A train crashed into a public bus on Saturday in Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, killing at least eight people. Thai news reported that the crash happened in late afternoon near an airport rail link station in the central area. The city’s emergency services Erawan Medical Center said at least eight were killed and more than 20 people were injured. Videos of the moment of the crash shared on […]

By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY, May 16 (Reuters) – Pope Leo will travel to France from September 25 to 28, the Vatican announced on Saturday, and will visit the Paris headquarters of UNESCO, which is facing budget shortfalls after the United States withdrew from the agency last year. The first U.S. pope, who marked a year leading the 1.4-billion-member Church on May 8, has been ramping up his schedule and […]

By Michael Martina, David Brunnstrom, David Lawder and Mei Mei Chu WASHINGTON/BEIJING, May 16 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing this week may have produced modest results by the standards of U.S.-China summits but it highlighted a clear benefit for China: after the extremes of last year’s trade war, the countries have reverted to their familiar economic and strategic standoff. Two days of talks between Trump and Chinese […]

May 16 (Reuters) – U.S. artificial intelligence company OpenAI said on Saturday it had signed a deal with the government of Malta to give all residents access to its ChatGPT Plus service for one year after they follow a course on how to use AI. • The programme will start in May and is expected to scale up as more Maltese residents complete the course, which will be free. • […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on a two-day trip to Beijing next week, the Kremlin said Saturday. The announcement comes less than 24 hours after U.S. President Donald Trump finished his own state visit to China, where he also met Xi to discuss trade and the U.S. and Israel’s war in Iran. In a statement, the Kremlin said that Putin’s trip, planned for May […]

PEA RIDGE, Ark. (AP) — Walmart and Amazon are racing to speed up online order deliveries in rural areas of the U.S., a rich source of untapped sales that major retailers long wrote off as too sparsely inhabited, too remote or too impoverished to serve profitably. Walmart has a running start in the contest to build a loyal customer base in rural America. Roughly 90% of U.S. residents live within […]

By Brad Brooks WIGGINS, Colorado, May 16 (Reuters) – Perched behind the cash register at Stubs liquor store, Amy Van Duyn gazed out the window at a red-and-green gasoline price sign, which she said seemed to tick up daily. The price was $4.34 per gallon – about 50% higher than it was in these parts when President Donald Trump returned to the White House last year. “I used to fill […]