By Leila Miller and Farah Master BUENOS AIRES, May 13 (Reuters) – On a balmy January night, an Argentine coast guard ship’s radio picked up garbled Mandarin broadcast from nearby boats. They were among some 200 Chinese fishing vessels that spend months at a time each year near the South American country’s waters, hunting primarily for …
By Heejin Kim and Brenda Goh INCHEON, South Korea, May 13 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng started talks in South Korea on Wednesday to lay the groundwork ahead of this week’s summit of the leaders of the world’s two biggest economies in Beijing. Bessent and He began …
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A licensed drug addiction counselor who delivered “Friends” star Matthew Perry the doses of ketamine that killed him is set to be sentenced on Wednesday. Prosecutors are asking for 2 1/2 years in prison for 56-year-old Erik Fleming, one of five people who pleaded guilty in connection with the actor’s 2023 …
DUBAI, May 13 (Reuters) – Iran executed a man convicted of spying for Israel’s intelligence service after the Supreme Court upheld his death sentence, the judiciary’s Mizan news outlet reported on Wednesday. According to rights group HRANA, the 32-year-old defendant named Ehsan Afrashteh was arrested in 2024 and sentenced to death in 2025 based on …
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Anaheim Ducks defenseman Olen Zellweger scored his first career playoff goal from the left circle to tie it at 2 with 3:05 left and send Game 5 against the Vegas Golden Knights into overtime Tuesday night. Tomas Hertl had put the Golden Knights ahead at 4:48 of the third period. The …
CHAMBLEE, Ga. (AP) — Being as well known as Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger would be a dream for many ambitious politicians. “I think most people by now know who I am,” the Republican candidate for governor joked Tuesday as someone put up signs with his name before a speech in the Atlanta suburb …
Director Eugene Yi has always been interested in the term Asian American and Pacific Islander and which ethnicities it includes. “When we’re talking about Asian Americans or Asian people in the U.S., oftentimes it’s people who might look like you and me, and maybe not people who look like (New York City Mayor) Zohran Mamdani,” …
The city of Austin will pay $35 million to three men and the family of a fourth who were wrongly accused of the 1991 rape and murder of four teenage girls at a yogurt shop, a case that initially sent one of the men to death row and another to life in prison, under a …
Americans paid more for their groceries last month, but high gasoline prices resulting from the Iran war were only one of the reasons why. Prices for food eaten at home rose 2.9% in April compared to the same month a year earlier, according to government figures released Tuesday. That was the highest year-over-year inflation rate …
By Laurie Chen, Trevor Hunnicutt and Heejin Kim BEIJING/SEOUL, May 13 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump picked up Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in Alaska en route to a high-stakes Beijing summit with China’s Xi Jinping, while his top trade negotiator Scott Bessent began preparatory talks with Chinese officials in South Korea. With his public …