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Dec 4 (Reuters) – U.s. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday said President Donald Trump’s administration is planning to expand the number of countries covered by its travel ban from 19 to more than 30. “I won’t be specific on the number, but it’s over 30, and the president is continuing to evaluate countries,” Noem said in an interview on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle.” Noem did not specify […]

Dec 5 (Reuters) – The Australian unit of U.S. oil giant Chevron Corp said on Friday that the partners of the Gorgon Joint Venture have made a final investment decision on the A$3 billion ($1.98 billion) Gorgon Stage 3 development off Western Australia’s northwest coast. The investment will link the offshore Geryon and Eurytion natural gas fields to Gorgon’s existing infrastructure on Barrow Island. The Chevron-operated Gorgon Project is a […]

NEW DELHI, Dec 5 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold summit talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Friday, aiming to boost trade with the top buyer of Russia’s arms and seaborne oil as Western sanctions squeeze their decades-old ties. Putin is on his first visit to India in four years at a time when New Delhi is engaged in talks with the U.S. for […]

By Kantaro Komiya and Satoshi Sugiyama TOKYO, Dec 5 (Reuters) – American actor and playwright Jeremy O. Harris, known for the Tony-nominated “Slave Play”, was arrested last month at an airport in Japan on suspicion of attempting to smuggle illegal drugs into the country, local authorities said late on Thursday. Harris, 36, was stopped on November 16 at Naha Airport on Okinawa island after a customs officer discovered 0.78 grams […]

By Kevin Buckland TOKYO, Dec 5 (Reuters) – The U.S. dollar languished not far from a five-week low against its major peers on Friday as investors braced for a Federal Reserve rate cut next week. Markets widely expect a quarter point reduction when the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee meets on December 9-10, and a focus will be on any signals about how much additional easing lies ahead.  The dollar […]

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Roughly a month after the Los Angeles Dodgers finished a scintillating seven-game World Series triumph over the Toronto Blue Jays, the Major League Baseball Players’ Association gathered in Arizona this week to discuss the future of the game and look ahead to a possible lockout next December. Japanese stars headed by Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto have sparked record international interest, in-game attendance was up in […]

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s police, who have spent six days monitoring every bowel movement of a man accused of swallowing a James Bond-inspired pendant in a jewelry store, said Friday that they had recovered the allegedly stolen loot. A spokesperson said the 33,000 New Zealand dollar ($19,000) Fabergé pendant was recovered from the man’s gastrointestinal tract on Thursday night by natural means. Medical intervention was not required. […]

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The Justice Department failed Thursday to secure a new indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James after a judge dismissed the previous mortgage fraud prosecution encouraged by President Donald Trump, according to a person familiar with the matter. Prosecutors went back to a grand jury in Virginia after a judge’s ruling halting the prosecution of James and another longtime Trump foe, former FBI Director James […]

ST. PAUL, Minn, (AP) — Democratic Gov. Tim Walz denounced President Donald Trump on Thursday for calling Minnesota’s Somali community “garbage” and dismissing the state as a “hellhole.” Walz said Trump slandered all Minnesotans and that his expressions of contempt for the state’s Somali community — the largest in the U.S. — were “unprecedented for a United States president. We’ve got little children going to school today who their president […]