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HAVANA (AP) — For nearly three decades, performances by Cuba’s Danza Voluminosa regularly filled prestigious venues like the 2,000-seat National Theater. Directed by Juan Miguel Mas, the troupe pioneered a new movement by working exclusively with larger-bodied dancers — a creative process that was captured in a Canadian documentary. Today, the 60-year-old dancer and choreographer from Havana is far from the big stages where he once thrived and rehearsed alongside […]

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Australia identified a neo-Nazi network as the second organization being banned under its new law criminalizing hate groups and support for them. The group, formerly known as the National Socialist Network and sometimes called White Australia, said it would disband after the government in January passed the law allowing certain organizations to be banned. The law was in response to the antisemitic attack on a […]

TAIPEI, May 15 (Reuters) – TSMC, the world’s largest contract chipmaker, said on Friday it plans to sell up to 152 million shares in Vanguard International Semiconductor through a block trade to financial institutional investors, reducing its stake in the chipmaker. TSMC said the proposed share sale would reduce its holding in Vanguard International Semiconductor, or VIS, to about 19% from around 27.1% on a fully diluted basis. The company […]

KYIV, May 15 (Reuters) – Ukraine has brought home 205 service personnel from Russian captivity in the first stage of a bigger prisoner of war swap, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday. Russia and Ukraine have agreed to swap 1000 POWs each as part of a three-day ceasefire, which was brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump. (Reporting by Olena Harmash;Editing by Alison Williams) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

MANILA, May 15 (Reuters) – The Philippines anti-graft chief has ordered a six-month suspension of the head of Senate security following a chaotic shootout inside the upper chamber on Wednesday that later led to the “escape” of a politician wanted by the International Criminal Court. “It’s a preventive suspension meant to make things easier for us to get to the bottom of this,” Ombudsman Jesus Crispin Remulla told a news […]

SINGAPORE, May 15 (Reuters) – IHH Healthcare has signed a S$250 million ($196 million) sustainability-linked loan with Singapore’s biggest bank DBS that ties part of the deal to better use of antibiotics at its four Singapore hospitals, the companies said on Friday. • The loan sets targets for Mount Elizabeth, Mount Elizabeth Novena, Gleneagles and Parkway East hospitals to improve checks on whether patients still need antibiotics within 72 hours […]

TOKYO, May 15 (Reuters) – Japanese memory chipmaker Kioxia said on Friday it expected operating profit for the April-June quarter to reach 1.3 trillion yen ($8.20 billion) as the artificial intelligence boom boosts chip demand. • The maker of NAND flash memory chips reported operating profit rose 92.7% to 870.4 billion yen in the year ended March, beating estimates. • Kioxia said it is preparing to list American depositary shares […]

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Six passengers from a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak arrived Friday in Australia for a quarantine expected to last at least three weeks. The Gulfstream long-range business jet carrying them from the Netherlands landed at RAAF Base Pearce outside the Western Australia state capital, Perth. The passengers and crew were to be moved to the nearby Bullsbrook quarantine facility. Australian Health Minister Mark Butler […]

NEW DELHI (AP) — India raised fuel prices by 3 rupees ($0.03) per liter Friday as the government moved to offset losses due to higher global oil prices. In New Delhi, gasoline prices rose to 97.77 rupees ($1.17) a liter, while diesel climbed to 90.67 rupees ($1.09) a liter. India imports about 90% of its oil and has been hit hard by rising energy prices and supply disruptions linked to […]