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JAKARTA, April 17 (Reuters) – All eight people on board a helicopter were killed when it crashed in Indonesia’s West Kalimantan province, authorities said on Friday as search teams tried to retrieve the bodies and wreckage. The Airbus H130 helicopter lost contact on Thursday morning five minutes after taking off from a plantation area in Melawi, …
PARIS, April 17 (Reuters) – France and Britain will chair a meeting on Friday of around 40 countries aimed at signalling to the United States that some of its closest allies are ready to play a role in restoring freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz once conditions allow. Iran has largely closed the …
April 17 (Reuters) – Myanmar’s new President Min Aung Hlaing has approved an amnesty for 4,335 prisoners, state television reported on Friday, the third such move in the past six months. The names of those included in the amnesty were not disclosed in the announcement on MRTV. Amnesties typically take place in Myanmar each year to …
By Mei Mei Chu, Greg Torode and Antoni Slodkowski BEIJING/HONG KONG, April 17 (Reuters) – China is accelerating its efforts to end the Iran war, walking a diplomatic tightrope as it prepares for a summit next month with U.S. President Donald Trump while trying not to alienate Tehran. President Xi Jinping’s mid-May meeting with Trump …
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — When a major stroke paralyzed South Korean pianist Lee Hun’s right side in 2012, he first worried about whether he would ever walk again. Playing the piano wasn’t even a consideration. He returned to the piano only after a mentor told him about a large number of piano pieces for …
By Joyce Zhou and Jessie Pang HONG KONG, April 17 (Reuters) – More than four months after a deadly fire engulfed her apartment block in Hong Kong’s northern Tai Po district, Fanny Mok is preparing to go back to retrieve what remains of her belongings. Mok, 59, is borrowing robotic exoskeleton legs to help her …
President Donald Trump plans to nominate Cameron Hamilton, a former U.S. Navy SEAL whom the administration fired as the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s acting leader last year, as FEMA’s permanent administrator, according to a person familiar with the matter. “I do not believe it is in the best interest of the American people to eliminate …
Rep. James Walkinshaw, D-Va., expressed alarm that federal workers may be using AI chatbots to handle sensitive government data. Rep. William Timmons, R-S.C., asked whether it should be illegal for AI systems to use someone’s likeness to create pornographic images. Rep. John McGuire, R-Va., expressed concerns that AI systems could deny U.S. military forces from …
More than 100 days into Zohran Mamdani’s term as New York City mayor, his unlikely relationship with President Trump is in part defining the democratic socialist’s time in office. But on Thursday, the president took to social media to rebuke Mamdani. Political strategists Chuck Rocha and Harrison Fields join “The Takeout” with analysis.
04/16: CBS Evening News – CBS News Watch CBS News Trump attempts to shift focus off of the war; Israel and Lebanon reach a ceasefire agreement.