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(Reuters) – South Korea coach Juergen Klinsmann praised captain Son Heung-min after the Tottenham Hotspur striker scored both goals in his new team’s 2-2 draw with visitors Colombia in Ulsan on Friday. Son has endured a difficult season in the Premier League but put those issues to one side to score twice as the South Koreans took a two-goal lead into the interval in Klinsmann’s first game in charge of […]

(Reuters) – Two people were dead and nine missing after an explosion ripped through a chocolate factory in West Reading, Pennsylvania, on Friday, officials said. The blast sent flames, smoke, dust and debris skyward, video of the moment captured by WTXF television showed. “There are still rescue efforts under way at the scene,” West Reading Police Chief Wayne Holden said in a brief statement he read to reporters. Images on […]

SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) -Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro will attend an Ibero-American summit this weekend hosted by the Dominican Republic, a summit official said on Friday, marking one of the embattled leader’s few trips abroad. “We welcome President Nicolas Maduro, who is on his way to the Dominican Republic,” said Marian Cruz, the master of ceremonies for the event, which provides a forum for leaders from across Latin America as well […]

By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Friday warned Iran that the United States would “act forcefully” to protect Americans, after the U.S. military carried out air strikes against Iran-backed forces in retaliation for an attack in Syria. Later, officials said that another U.S. service member was wounded on Friday in the latest tit-for-tat strike between Iran-backed forces and U.S. personnel in Syria. That comes […]

By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) -Two suspected undocumented immigrants suffocated to death aboard a freight train and 10 others in need of medical care were taken by helicopter or ambulance to hospital on Friday in south Texas, police said. Officials in Uvlade, Texas, received an anonymous emergency 911 call advising them that numerous immigrants were suffocating inside a train, Uvalde police said in a statement. At least 15 immigrants needed immediate […]

By Mike Collett-White NEAR KREMINNA, Ukraine (Reuters) -Russian forces attacked northern and southern stretches of the front in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region on Friday, even as Kyiv said Moscow’s assault was flagging near the city of Bakhmut. Ukrainian military reports described heavy fighting along a line running from Lyman to Kupiansk, as well as in the south at Avdiivka on the outskirts of the Russian-held city of Donetsk. Both areas […]

(Reuters) – Australia coach Graham Arnold sought to dampen expectations on the country’s crop of emerging players after the Socceroos’ 3-1 win over Ecuador in Sydney on Friday in their first game since reaching the knockout rounds of last year’s World Cup in Qatar. Jackson Irvine, Awer Mabil and teenager Garang Kuol were on target as Arnold handed debuts to Aiden O’Neill and Alex Robertson in his team’s first appearance […]

(Reuters) -Microsoft Corp has threatened to cut off access to its internet-search data, which it licenses to rival search engines, if they do not stop using it as the basis for their own artificial intelligence chat products, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. The company has told at least two customers that using its Bing search index – a map of the internet that can be scanned in real time – […]

(Reuters) -Microsoft Corp has threatened to cut off access to its internet-search data, which it licenses to rival search engines, if they do not stop using it as the basis for their own artificial intelligence chat products, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. The company has told at least two customers that using its Bing search index – a map of the internet that can be scanned in real time – […]