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By Ju-min Park BEIJING, May 15 (Reuters) – GE Aerospace CEO Larry Culp was seen on Friday in Beijing leaving a meeting at the headquarters of China’s powerful state planner, the National Development and Reform Commission, according to a Reuters witness. Culp’s visit to the NDRC building comes after U.S. President Donald Trump told Fox News that following talks in Beijing with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Thursday China […]

By Byron Kaye SYDNEY, May 15 (Reuters) – A judge hearing an Australian class action lawsuit against Tesla on Friday questioned whether the Elon Musk-led automaker was taking the discovery process seriously and warned it could expect “a really bad time” if it failed to cooperate. Federal Court judge Tom Thawley gave the warning after a lawyer representing 10,000 Australian Tesla drivers complained that the U.S.-listed car company had produced […]

The Milwaukee Brewers hope resting Christian Yelich the past two days will be enough to loosen up his tight back, but they won’t know for certain until Friday. Yelich missed 24 games due to a left groin strain before returning to action on Tuesday and going 0-for-4 as Milwaukee beat the visiting San Diego Padres 6-4. In the wake of that game, he experienced back tightness, which prompted the Brewers […]

By Heekyong Yang and Hyunjoo Jin SEOUL, May 15 (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics’ South Korean labour union said on Friday it remained committed to a planned strike starting next week, even after the company proposed resuming pay talks without conditions, sending shares down as much as 5.9%. Government-mediated negotiations between the union and the company over pay and bonus schemes collapsed this week, heightening concerns about a strike at the […]

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Have-A-Look. Handsome. Thanks. Trust. Privilege. Doubt. Problem. Shame. In Zimbabwe, these aren’t just random words. They are names chosen with intention in a culture where naming a child goes beyond identity and can offer a snapshot of family history, emotion and circumstance. At first, Privilege Mubani, a 37-year-old bar manager in the capital, Harare, didn’t give much thought to her name. But as she grew older, […]

BENGALURU, India (AP) — Taxi driver Ravi Ranjan, who lives with his wife and child in New Delhi said shipping disruptions caused by the Iran war have forced him to pay higher prices for cooking fuel at a time when India’s prime minister is also urging residents to reduce driving and travel. It’s all hitting Ranjan’s bottom line, he said, as he’s paying three times as much for liquid petroleum […]

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A man who experts for both prosecutors and defense attorneys had said was intellectually disabled became the 600th person executed in Texas since 1982, put to death Thursday evening for the killing of a 77-year-old retired college professor. Edward Busby Jr. was pronounced dead at 8:11 p.m. following a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, hours after the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a stay […]

MIAMI (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas urged Americans to celebrate the 250th anniversary of independence not with fireworks or empty platitudes, but by standing up for their deeply held beliefs, with the comforting knowledge that the U.S. Constitution protects free speech and serves as a common bedrock in a society otherwise beset by deep divisions. “We can disagree on all sorts of things, but we’ve got to have […]

SEOUL, May 15 (Reuters) – South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will hold a summit in Lee’s hometown of Andong on May 19 to 20, Seoul’s presidential Blue House said on Friday. The meeting will be their second this year, after Lee visited Takaichi’s hometown of Nara in January as part of the countries’ ongoing “shuttle diplomacy,” it said. (Reporting by Kyu-seok ShimEditing by […]