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Probe of crash of Mexican tall ship into Brooklyn Bridge centers on engine
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The investigation into why a Mexican Navy training ship struck the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday, shearing the top of its masts, will look into a possible engine failure and the role of a tug boat that assisted it in backing out of its pier, officials said on Monday.
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U.S. stocks inch higher despite credit rating downgrade
NEW YORK, May 19 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks were little changed on Monday, as markets reacted to mounting concerns over the country's fiscal outlook following a credit rating downgrade and the advancement of a controversial tax-and-spending bill.
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Macron announces 20 bln euros in new investments at "Choose France" summit
PARIS, May 19 (Xinhua) -- French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Monday that some 20 billion euros (22.49 billion U.S. dollars) in new investments were confirmed during the eighth Choose France International Business Summit, held at the Palace of Versailles.
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Germany's tougher border controls show early impact, but raise sustainability concerns
BERLIN, May 19 (Xinhua) -- Amid growing migration pressures, Germany's recently intensified border controls and increased asylum rejections are beginning to yield results. Even as the Federal Ministry of the Interior showed no signs of rolling back, the police union warned on Monday that the measures are not sustainable in the long run.
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Microsoft unveils Discovery platform
SAN FRANCISCO, May 19 (Xinhua) -- At the company's Build 2025 conference on Monday, Microsoft announced Microsoft Discovery, a platform that taps agentic artificial intelligence (AI) to "transform the discovery process."
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Football
Soccer-Brighton keep European hopes alive with 3-2 win over Liverpool
BRIGHTON, England (Reuters) -Brighton & Hove Albion substitute Jack Hinshelwood struck a late winner as the host came from behind to grab a 3-2 victory over champions Liverpool to keep their slim hopes of playing in Europe next season alive after twice coming from behind.
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GitHub, Microsoft join Anthropic's MCP steering committee
SAN FRANCISCO, May 19 (Xinhua) -- Microsoft and GitHub announced they are joining the steering committee for MCP, the open standard developed by Anthropic to enable artificial intelligence (AI) models to connect with external data systems, at the Microsoft Build 2025 conference on Monday.
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Tennis-U.S. Open venue to undergo $800 million transformation
NEW YORK (Reuters) -The site of the U.S. Open will undergo an $800 million transformation, the USTA said on Monday, with a "top-to-bottom" modernisation of the famed Arthur Ashe Stadium and a new player performance center planned for the sprawling Queens campus.
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Brazilian drug lord imprisoned in Brasilia after arrest in Bolivia
BRASILIA (Reuters) -The leader of Brazilian organized crime syndicate PCC has been jailed in a maximum-security prison in Brasilia after his arrest in Bolivia over the weekend, officials in Brazil said on Monday.
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22 arrested after violence mars Dutch football championship celebrations
THE HAGUE, May 19 (Xinhua) -- Riots broke out in the Dutch city of Eindhoven on Sunday night following the final match of the Eredivisie, the Dutch professional football championship, leaving 14 police officers injured and resulting in 22 arrests, local police said Monday.
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Interview: Slovenia seeks deeper engagement through China-CEEC Expo: official
LJUBLJANA, May 19 (Xinhua) -- Slovenia will present itself as a "green, creative, and smart" economy at the upcoming 4th China-CEEC Expo & International Consumer Goods Fair in Ningbo, China, Matevz Frangez, state secretary at Slovenia's Ministry of the Economy, Tourism and Sport, has told Xinhua.
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Football
Soccer-Napoli and Inter lose managers for Scudetto D-Day after Conte, Inzaghi see red
(Reuters) -Napoli and Inter Milan go into the last day of the Serie A season still fighting for the title but have to do so without their managers after Antonio Conte and Simone Inzaghi were handed one-match suspensions by the Italian league on Monday.
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Genetic test to reveal whether Brazil's bird flu case is linked to zoo deaths
MONTENEGRO, Brazil (Reuters) -Brazilian authorities hope to determine by Tuesday whether a confirmed outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza among wild birds in a zoo in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul is connected with the country's first bird flu case on a commercial poultry farm in the same state, an official said on Monday.
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UAE, China's agri-tech companies to launch 33-mln-USD smart hub
ABU DHABI, May 19 (Xinhua) -- United Arab Emirates agri-tech firm Silal signed a strategic partnership with China's Shouguang Vegetable Industry Group (SVG) on Monday to establish a 33-million-U.S.-dollar smart agricultural technology hub in Al Ain, near Abu Dhabi.
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U.S. dollar ticks down
NEW YORK, May 19 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. dollar fell in late trading on Monday.
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Argentina markets bask in Milei's local election win glow
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Argentina's markets enjoyed the glow on Monday of a mood-boosting local election win by the party of investor-friendly libertarian President Javier Milei, which analysts said put him in good stead ahead of more important ballots later this year.
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Feature: In eastern DR Cong's Sake, life hangs between war and survival
SAKE, DR Congo, May 19 (Xinhua) -- In the war-scarred hills of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the town of Sake bears the jagged outlines of conflict and endurance.
