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GENERAL SANTOS, Philippines (AP) — The mayor of a southern Philippine town that was devastated by a powerful earthquake pleaded Thursday for helicopters to transport food to stave off hunger in several landslide-isolated villages. The 7.8 magnitude offshore quake, one of the strongest to hit the Philippine archipelago in a half century, struck Monday off the southern province of Sarangani and has left at least 47 people dead and injured […]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United States launched a second round of airstrikes on Iran into Thursday morning after U.S. President Donald Trump warned that Tehran would “pay the price” for stalled negotiations, and Iran responded with strikes targeting Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan. The new U.S. assault across multiple Iranian cities came as efforts to negotiate an end the war again appeared stuck, with Iran insisting it would […]

By Bhanvi Satija and Sabrina Valle LONDON, June 11 (Reuters) – GSK’s record $10.6 billion deal for U.S. company Nuvalent will accelerate the British drugmaker’s rebuild of its cancer drug business as it seeks to fend off competition from bigger rivals AstraZeneca and Roche. The takeover bid, codenamed Nashville, is GSK’s biggest acquisition to date and brings with it two lung cancer treatments that could be approved in the U.S. […]

June 11 (Reuters) – India’s Tata Consultancy Services has partnered with Anthropic to launch an alliance to drive enterprise AI scaling, the country’s largest software services exporter said on Thursday. The partnership comes at a time when investors are concerned that AI tools will disrupt the traditional, labour-intensive business model of India’s $315-billion IT sector. In February, Indian IT services firms lost more than $62.8 billion in market capitalization, in […]

By Alexander Villegas and Marco Aquino LIMA, June 11 (Reuters) – Conservative Keiko Fujimori retook the lead in Peru’s tight presidential race late on Wednesday as the remaining overseas ballots pushed her past leftist rival Roberto Sanchez. Fujimori now has the slimmest of edges with 50.002% to Sanchez’s 49.998%, a lead of about 650 votes, with 98.21% of polling stations reporting, or about 18 million votes, according to Peru’s ONPE […]

NEW YORK (AP) — For all the shots Victor Wembanyama hit to get the San Antonio Spurs to the NBA Finals, the series is beginning to be defined by a few of his misses. After clanking his shot off the rim at the buzzer on what would have been the Game 2 winner, Wembanyama did the same on two key free throws late in Game 4. With the chance to […]

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Shohei Ohtani doesn’t like to get in the way of his catchers. The way the Los Angeles Dodgers superstar looks at it, when he’s on the mound, his job is to throw the ball. It’s up to the guys behind the plate to decide whether to challenge an umpire’s call of a ball or a strike. That deference might have cost Ohtani and the Dodgers in a […]

By Brenda Goh and Liz Lee SEOUL/BEIJING, June 10 (Reuters) – North Korea and China both walked away claiming major wins from Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit this week to the isolated state, which helped elevate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s global stature and pulled Pyongyang more tightly into China’s orbit. The two countries each lavished the other with praise and spoke of deeper cooperation during the two-day trip, which […]

ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD, England (AP) — About 75,000 voters in a pocket of northwest England are about to make a momentous decision. They will cast ballots in a contest that may well pick the U.K.’s next prime minister, or plunge Britain’s febrile politics into even more turmoil. Possibly both. Some of them aren’t too enthusiastic. “I think they’re all a waste of time,” said Shirley Prior on the choice of candidates in […]