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NEW DELHI, May 14 (Reuters) – Peace underpins global order and recent conflicts highlight the need for dialogue, India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on Thursday as the BRICS group began a two-day meeting overshadowed by tension between members Iran and the United Arab Emirates. “Peace and security remain central to the global order. Recent conflicts …
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Danny Jansen chuckled after saying he didn’t really want to have to catch another inning in what had already been an active game behind the plate. Jansen didn’t have to after he delivered the walk-off hit that gave the Texas Rangers a 6-5 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday night, …
HALIFAX, N.C. (AP) — With 165 grains of black powder in the barrel, a .75-caliber Brown Bess flintlock musket like the ones the redcoats carried in 1776 can hurl a lead ball at a velocity of around 1,000 feet (305 meters) per second. Imagine what that can do to a human body. Now, imagine that …
COVINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Rep. Thomas Massie was stuck in Washington for a vote on Capitol Hill, so one of his supporters made the pitch for his campaign in a banquet hall packed with Republicans in northern Kentucky. The audience had just heard Ed Gallrein, who was drafted by President Donald Trump to run against …
DAKAR, May 14 (Reuters) – M23 rebels and the Rwandan army carried out killings, rapes and abductions during a month-long occupation of Uvira in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in late 2025 and early 2026, Human Rights Watch said in a report on Thursday. • The rebels briefly captured the city of Uvira in December …
McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her 7-month-old daughter after setting their home on fire nearly 20 years ago was set to be executed on Thursday. Raymond Johnson, 52, was scheduled to receive a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. He was condemned for the June 2007 …
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shohei Ohtani tossed four-hit ball over seven shutout innings and the Los Angeles Dodgers backed the four-time MVP with his most run support of the season in a 4-0 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Wednesday night. The Dodgers snapped their season-high skid at four games on a night when …
May 14 (Reuters) – OpenAI said on Wednesday it found no evidence that its user data was accessed after a security issue involving a supply-chain attack on TanStack npm, an open-source library. (Reporting by Gnaneshwar Rajan in Bengaluru) Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters.
HONG KONG (AP) — Asian shares were mixed Thursday after Wall Street set more records, as investors closely monitored takeaways from U.S. President Donald Trump’s summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing. Trump met with Xi at the Great Hall of the People and they talked about U.S.-China relations and Taiwan, but analysts did …
TAIPEI, May 14 (Reuters) – China’s Xi Jinping told President Donald Trump on Thursday that disagreement over Taiwan could send relations down a dangerous path and that “Taiwan independence” and cross-Taiwan Strait peace are as “irreconcilable as fire and water”. Below are some questions and answers about what is meant by the term “Taiwan independence” …