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(Reuters) – A pair of signed, game-worn Michael Jordan sneakers from the 1998 NBA Finals fetched a record $2.2 million on Tuesday, making them the most valuable sneakers ever sold, auction house Sotheby’s said. The Air Jordan 13 “Breds” – short for “black and red” – were worn by Jordan in the second game of the Finals during his final season with the Chicago Bulls, referred to as the “Last […]

By Sarah Wu and Ben Blanchard TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s TSMC has not changed the investment plan for its new chip factory in the island’s southern city of Kaohsiung, Economy Minister Wang Mei-hua said on Wednesday, responding to a media report of the chipmaker slowing down expansion at home. “TSMC making Taiwan its global R&D hub and manufacturing hub has not changed,” Wang told reporters on the sidelines of parliament. […]

By Uditha Jayasinghe PAMUNUWA (Reuters) -Fortune teller Andara Maanage Chandani, who runs a small shrine at her home near Colombo, says she used to make enough money to buy clothes for all eight members of her family every Sri Lankan New Year, which falls this week. This time, Chandani says she has managed to buy bottoms for only three of her five children and nothing for herself, her husband who […]

SINGAPORE/ABIDJAN (Reuters) -A Singapore-registered oil tanker was boarded by “unidentified persons” about 300 nautical miles (555 km) off Ivory Coast in the Gulf of Guinea, the city-state’s port authority said. The Gulf of Guinea has become a hotspot for global piracy in recent years, although incidents have dwindled since 2021 as national authorities stepped up security efforts, helped by foreign naval ships, the United Nations says. The tanker Success 9 […]

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump asked a U.S. judge to delay the scheduled April 25 trial over whether he defamed former Elle magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll by denying he raped her, citing the recent “deluge of prejudicial media coverage” of criminal charges against him. In a Tuesday night letter to U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan, Trump’s lawyers said a four-week “cooling off” period to […]

By Amy Tennery (Reuters) – The United States were no closer to filling the void left by injured striker Mallory Swanson on Tuesday, securing an uneasy 1-0 victory against Ireland in a friendly just 100 days before the Women’s World Cup. The front three of Swanson, National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) MVP Sophia Smith and veteran Alex Morgan were expected to produce fireworks in Australia and New Zealand but the […]

(Reuters) – Myanmar’s military said on Wednesday it carried out a deadly attack on a village gathering organised by its insurgent opponents this week and if civilians were also killed it was because they were being forced to help the “terrorists”. At least 50 people, including children, were killed in Tuesday’s air strike in the Sagaing area in northwest Myanmar, according to media reports. Myanmar has been in turmoil since […]

By Gram Slattery and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican U.S. Senator Tim Scott plans to launch a presidential exploratory committee on Wednesday, two sources with knowledge of the matter said, a key step toward running for president in 2024. If he were to run, Scott would challenge former President Donald Trump, who launched his campaign in November and recently became the first former U.S. president to be criminally indicted by […]

(Corrects March 30 story to remove paragraph 10, which incorrectly referred to Daniil Berman as a lawyer representing Evan Gershkovich and gave his comments regarding court proceedings.) By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) -Russia on Thursday charged an American correspondent for the Wall Street Journal with spying, in a case certain to worsen Moscow’s diplomatic feud with Washington over the war in Ukraine and likely to further isolate Russia. The newspaper […]