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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — At 6 a.m., in the Mataderos neighborhood of Buenos Aires, workers unload sides of beef from a truck outside a butcher shop as customers line up for wholesale purchases. Inside, 73-year-old owner Jorge García and his staff prepare meat orders before dawn. Among the stacks of beef boxes and red meat cuts hanging from metal hooks, chicken and pork are increasingly present. Red meat consumption […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. and Nigerian forces killed a leader of the Islamic State group in Nigeria in a mission carried out Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump said. Trump announced the joint operation in Africa’s most populous country in a late-night social media post that offered few details. He said Abu Bakr al-Mainuki was second in command of the Islamic State group globally and “thought he could hide in Africa, […]

May 16 (Reuters) – The head of Harvard University’s nearly $57 billion endowment, N.P. Narvekar, has told its board that he plans to retire, the Wall Street Journal reported late on Friday, citing sources. The report said that Narvekar had not set a definitive departure date but discussed the possibility of stepping down in late 2027. Reuters could not immediately verify the report. Harvard Management Co, the university’s investment arm, […]

May 16 (Reuters) – Billionaire investor Bill Ackman said on Saturday that the sale of Google parent Alphabet’s shares was not a bet against the company. Ackman on Friday said his firm Pershing Square had built a new position in tech giant Microsoft after its stock price dropped recently, and sold his long-owned investment in Alphabet to help pay for it. “To be clear, our sale of Google was not […]

Bring on the champs. The San Antonio Spurs stamped themselves ready for a showdown with the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder, using an early offensive explosion and a brilliant all-around effort to finish off the Minnesota Timberwolves in the Western Conference semifinals with a 139-109 victory in Game 6 on Friday in Minneapolis. The win vaults the second-seeded Spurs into the Western finals against the top-seeded Thunder, with Oklahoma City […]

MADRID (AP) — No special menu, no themed decorations and no shared suspense over which musician’s flamboyant performance proves victorious. For the first time in seven years, Silvia Díaz won’t get together with friends to watch the Eurovision Song Contest finals on Saturday night. Their host called off their annual gathering after Spain’s public broadcaster withdrew from the festival, protesting Israel’s participation over its war against Hamas in Gaza. Díaz […]

By Trevor Hunnicutt and Jana Choukeir ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE/DUBAI, May 16 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said Chinese President Xi Jinping had agreed Tehran must reopen the Strait of Hormuz, though China gave no indication it would weigh in. Flying back from Beijing on Friday after two days of talks with Xi, Trump said he was considering whether to lift U.S. sanctions on Chinese oil companies buying Iranian […]

May 16 (Reuters) – FIFA Secretary-General Mattias Grafstrom will meet Iranian FA (FFIRI) officials in Istanbul on Saturday and offer “reassurance” over Iran’s participation in the World Cup, a source familiar with the talks has told Reuters. Iran is scheduled to play all three World Cup group matches in the United States but the team’s participation in the June 11 to July 19 tournament has been in question since the […]

SEOUL, May 16 (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics Chairman Jay Y. Lee apologised to customers and the public on Saturday over the company’s wage dispute with its South Korean labour union ahead of a possible strike that could shake the economy. “I sincerely apologise to customers around the world for causing anxiety and concern due to issues within our company,” Lee said in his first public remarks on the dispute, adding […]